Brooke Geery

YoBeat’s Get Ready Guide Part 1: Tats!

Summer is winding down, which means it's time to start getting ready for the season. Perhaps you've done this once or twice before, but this upcoming season isn't just any season. No, this is the '10/'11 season, which means there's a long list of new products, trends and other important factors you must take into account when determining what you'll need when the first snow flies. Never fear, your friends here at YoBeat have done the research for you, and starting now we'll be dropping stories that will be your guide to success and glory this season. In this first segment, we show you how to get a homemade tattoo.…
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Meet: This Is Productions

It's possible you've heard of Toy Soldier Productions out of Montana, a crew that is putting out what looks like it will be a super sick video. Aside from, or course, a shit ton of skiing. Since you guys whine every time we post anything with skiing in it, we dug a little deeper and unearthed This Is Productions, Montana's other film crew. They don't take things so seriously, and everyone in the crew rides a snowboard, so we asked Miah Favara for a little bit more info. Riders: Shane Stalling, Tyrel Thornton, Jess Gentner, Phil Weiss, Miah Favara, Kevin Fischer, Hjalmar Syversen, Kyle Miller Location: Bozeman, Montana Filmer/Editor: Miah…
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We’re Not In Kansas Any More

My most recent trip took me to the heartland of America. Well, wait, is Kansas in the heartland, or more like the pelvis? Whatever, it's a weird-ass place, probably one the strangest I've ever gone to on purpose. I was there for a wakeboard event at a cable park on a dead end road. In between where we stayed and the park was miles of mid-scale chain restaurants and big box stores, so I guess it was pretty much like anywhere else in America. I like to really immerse myself in the culture of a place though, so I managed to eat at Applebees, Old Chicago, Ruby Tuesdays, Chipotle and…
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Vegan Cupcake Wars!

As you may or may not know, my office is above a Vegan bakery. It's cool because I get all the coffee and vegan pastries my heart could possible desire, but the catch is, when Lisa needs something requiring my skill set, I can't say no. So when someone from the Food Network called asking her to try out for Cupcake Wars, it was my job to make the video. Not that I would have said no, as this is clearly my latest big break! Jared did most of the filming (though I will definitely claim the shaky shots -- there is free coffee here.) I did the editing and…
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Meet: Dump Em

Location: Truckee, CA Riders: Dylan Bonnie, Matt Rabow, Nial Romanek, Mark Wilson, Forest Bailey, Will Bateman, Dakota Whitaker, Johnny Brady, Matt Bothfield, Jeremy Landy and a bunch-o-kooks Filmer/Editor: Colton Feldman At the beginning of last season, we had the great pleasure of encountering Colton Feldman. With his army of friends who were ridiculously good at snowboarding, he churned out a series of entertaining edits dubbed Feldman Fridays. As with all our great regular features, the weekly edits dwindled, but the movie making continued. So we caught back up with Colton to get the full story on the forthcoming Dump Em Out. How many times did telling girls to "Dump Em"…
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Summertime Funtime

It certainly took long enough this year, but it is summer! I know I am supposed to be a snowboarder, but I have no complaints about this season. I'll take the heat, the sun and happily trade dirty mountain condos for luxurious lakeside houses any day. I did attempt to snowboard, twice, before deciding I'd rather save it for winter. It seems now that I've retired from stunts, there's not much for me to do up at summer camp other than leg burning laps through slushy snow. Plus, there is plenty to do down here. Summer Fun idea #1: Oaks Park You know those scary-looking carnivals that pop up on…
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Free-Sledding: The Next Big Thing?

Not so long ago, snowboarding was seen as odd. People would say things such as, "how do you stop on those things?" Most other winter sports enthusiasts would ask, "why wouldn't you just ski?" Fast forward 30 years and snowboarding is so mainstream it may actually be shrinking (have you seen how many free skiers there are these days?) So maybe it's time for something new. Free sledding looks fun and here's why: you get to sit down while doing it. Standing up is so much effort. You still get to hit rails and do flips, but from a more relaxing body position. Ok, so that's a lie, kneeling like…
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Meet: VegHead Productions

Our neighbors to the North have some pretty serious snowboarding to be done, and none of it is in Ontario. That hasn't stopped VegHead Productions from making a movie this year (and why should it!?) But seriously, reformed pot heads, urban boarding, and universal healthcare is as good a recipe as any, and VegHead's Gordon Bernie hit us up and was like, check out our video. So we decided to find out more! Location: London, Ontario Riders: Zach Moorcroft, Jordan Glenn, Sean Grabowski, Erik Rayment, Chris Fellner, Gordon Birnie, Bradley Hesson, Mark Goodall, Jeff Howlett, Mike Benko, Brady Swartz Filmer/Editor: Andrew Wyton What's with the name? Are you guys a…
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A Quick Guide to Online PR

Dear PR People of the World, Thanks so much for sending me that highly interesting press release about your amazing product/brand/event/team rider! I cannot express how anxious I am to get it posted on my website! The only thing is, it appears you've sent it to me as if you think I am putting it in a magazine. See, on "the internet" photos don't need to be 300 dpi and 3000 pixels wide. In fact, most websites top out at about 640 pixels wide, which means I must take your giant pdf or eps file and resize it, which will greatly slow the speed with which I can get this…
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Pipe to Pipe Version 2010: SKATE!

[imagebrowser id=85] With only one Bonfire Pipe to Pipe event this year, I had only one chance to defend my second place title from last year. But I was determined. I left the on-snow in a hurry to get down to the Windells Concrete Jungle and train. I had my stunts down. I threatened the appropriate judges. I was feeling good. And then... the unthinkable. A bunch of other girls showed up. Some of them could actually ollie. I saw my dreams of back-to-back silver-medal goodie bags drifting further and further away. The good news is this year there were enough girls we got our own jam session (not fighting…
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