Holy Roller

A compact step-up alternative You know those days when it’s well overhead and sweeping, and you feel like you could be riding a board that’s about a foot longer and 1/4” thicker to be able to nab the goodies that always seem to be just out of reach? …but then, once on the wave face, you don’t want all the extra nose length of a true gun getting clipped by the lip while you’re navigating through the barrel? Whatever can we do? That’s what this board is for: paddles like a gun, but in a compact length. Using a fuller nose outline, wide point forward, a swept back tail, and volume down the center and under the chest. Medium to lower volume rails to keep it knifey and responsive, edgy and thinned out in the tail to draw surgical lines with flow. So, in conditions where you might normally require a 6’3” – 6’4” step-up, you would ride this; 4-6” inches shorter with same paddle yet way easier to stuff up tighter in the barrel and rail steeper in the hook.