The "Sniper" Shortboard
Sniper Series
The Sniper series is currently my most asked for model from my customers world wide. I originally designed the first Impala in 2009 while shaping at Lost Surfboards while building and selling my Rawson brands that Lost was distributing for me. At the time, Matt Biolos; the Lost Surfboards owner, was encouraging me to design a hybrid that had the best of the '80's, but style was contemporary looking. The result was the Impala: my best small wave model seller for 8 years, only giving those numbers up to The Sniper, which is a souped up, latest version of the Impala Classic.
All of the Sniper Series Model I build still have the thickness forward of center, but with more of a high performance rail than the Impala and a more contemporary non-beak nose design with more rocker the last 6" to tip, that helps the whole board fit in the wave better for the high performance moves this board is capable of..
We offer the Sniper Series as aClassic Roundtail, or the Sniper SS which is either a swallowtail or a squash tail. The Sniper SS series tends to lend to a Quad setup where both the Classic and SS work well with the 3+2 setup. Like the Impala, the result is a small wave board that thinks it's a skateboard, and has plenty of flow, drive, speed, and looseness in many wave sizes and types. Both my Sniper and Impala expand nicely in size and volume w to accommodate larger/older mature riders with the bigger cubic volumes.
Sniper Board Range:
5'10 ~ 8'6
5'10 x 19.50 x 2.50 @31.5cl
6'4 x 20.25 x 2.75 @38.5cl
6'8 x 20.75 x 2.87 @43.2cl
7'0 x 21.12 x 3.00 @48.3cl
7'4 x 21.50 x 3.06 @52.6cl
7'8 x 21.75 x 3.18 @56.1cl
8'0 x 22.12 x 3.25 @61.7cl
8'6 x 22.37 x 3.37 @68.9cl
Sniper Series
The Sniper series is currently my most asked for model from my customers world wide. I originally designed the first Impala in 2009 while shaping at Lost Surfboards while building and selling my Rawson brands that Lost was distributing for me. At the time, Matt Biolos; the Lost Surfboards owner, was encouraging me to design a hybrid that had the best of the '80's, but style was contemporary looking. The result was the Impala: my best small wave model seller for 8 years, only giving those numbers up to The Sniper, which is a souped up, latest version of the Impala Classic.
All of the Sniper Series Model I build still have the thickness forward of center, but with more of a high performance rail than the Impala and a more contemporary non-beak nose design with more rocker the last 6" to tip, that helps the whole board fit in the wave better for the high performance moves this board is capable of..
We offer the Sniper Series as aClassic Roundtail, or the Sniper SS which is either a swallowtail or a squash tail. The Sniper SS series tends to lend to a Quad setup where both the Classic and SS work well with the 3+2 setup. Like the Impala, the result is a small wave board that thinks it's a skateboard, and has plenty of flow, drive, speed, and looseness in many wave sizes and types. Both my Sniper and Impala expand nicely in size and volume w to accommodate larger/older mature riders with the bigger cubic volumes.
Sniper Board Range:
5'10 ~ 8'6
5'10 x 19.50 x 2.50 @31.5cl
6'4 x 20.25 x 2.75 @38.5cl
6'8 x 20.75 x 2.87 @43.2cl
7'0 x 21.12 x 3.00 @48.3cl
7'4 x 21.50 x 3.06 @52.6cl
7'8 x 21.75 x 3.18 @56.1cl
8'0 x 22.12 x 3.25 @61.7cl
8'6 x 22.37 x 3.37 @68.9cl
Sniper Series
The Sniper series is currently my most asked for model from my customers world wide. I originally designed the first Impala in 2009 while shaping at Lost Surfboards while building and selling my Rawson brands that Lost was distributing for me. At the time, Matt Biolos; the Lost Surfboards owner, was encouraging me to design a hybrid that had the best of the '80's, but style was contemporary looking. The result was the Impala: my best small wave model seller for 8 years, only giving those numbers up to The Sniper, which is a souped up, latest version of the Impala Classic.
All of the Sniper Series Model I build still have the thickness forward of center, but with more of a high performance rail than the Impala and a more contemporary non-beak nose design with more rocker the last 6" to tip, that helps the whole board fit in the wave better for the high performance moves this board is capable of..
We offer the Sniper Series as aClassic Roundtail, or the Sniper SS which is either a swallowtail or a squash tail. The Sniper SS series tends to lend to a Quad setup where both the Classic and SS work well with the 3+2 setup. Like the Impala, the result is a small wave board that thinks it's a skateboard, and has plenty of flow, drive, speed, and looseness in many wave sizes and types. Both my Sniper and Impala expand nicely in size and volume w to accommodate larger/older mature riders with the bigger cubic volumes.
Sniper Board Range:
5'10 ~ 8'6
5'10 x 19.50 x 2.50 @31.5cl
6'4 x 20.25 x 2.75 @38.5cl
6'8 x 20.75 x 2.87 @43.2cl
7'0 x 21.12 x 3.00 @48.3cl
7'4 x 21.50 x 3.06 @52.6cl
7'8 x 21.75 x 3.18 @56.1cl
8'0 x 22.12 x 3.25 @61.7cl
8'6 x 22.37 x 3.37 @68.9cl