There’s nothing fairly like the sensation of a surfy snowboard. With the ability to surf the snow with precision, fashion, and ease is likely one of the greatest emotions you possibly can have whereas snowboarding. Browsing the snow is completely different in each situation. Browsing powder on a snowboard may be very completely different from browsing slush on a snowboard. By no means Summer time makes an unimaginable collection of snowboards for this actual sort of snowboarding. Let’s take a deeper dive into By no means Summer time’s Shaper Collection. Find out about what makes these boards particular for browsing the snow and discovering out which surf fashion snowboard is greatest for you.
Brothers Tim and Tracey Canaday began By no means Summer time 32 years in the past. For over 40 years Tim Canaday has been shaping snowboards. At all times on the chopping fringe of snowboard design, from the thoughts of Tim Canaday, By no means Summer time brings you the Shaper Collection. Right here to recapture the sensation that made us all snowboarders, the Shaper Collection is all about beautifying the flip and making a fluid fashion all your individual! The primary time you linked turns..that is after we all obtained hooked. That ‘one thing’ simply ‘clicked’. It modified our lives. The Shaper Collection brings us again to our snowboarding roots and the way snowboarding has been impressed by browsing. The enjoyable and attainable fashion are the pure dynamics of board sports activities. Make no mistake. It is a very completely different board, from look, to profile, to efficiency, all impressed by fluid surf fashion. The Shaper Collection embraces each facet of snowboarding……groomer, park, bushes, pace, huge carves, large strains.…no matter snow circumstances. The brand new Fusion Rocker Camber Profile is mixed with an elevated floor space and a streamlined taper that brings the fervour again to your snowboarding. Each board has amazingly fast flip initiation, tons of pop, and trench digging edge maintain no matter measurement.
Tim Canaday’s Shaper Collection
Tim Canaday, one of many brothers that based By no means Summer time Industries wished to do one thing new and thrilling with their handcrafted snowboards. The By no means Summer time Swift was a surfboard constructed for the snow, the primary deep powder snowboard we constructed meant for browsing not simply powder, however slush, wind lips, groomers, and all the pieces in between. The Swift being launched within the 2015-2016 season was By no means Summer time’s lone shaper snowboard within the line for simply two seasons. After simply two seasons, The Swift was a fan favourite and Tim knew he might do extra. Tim developed a brand new line for By no means Summer time; Tim Canaday’s Shaper Collection. Launched through the 2017-2018 season, Tim got here up with three model new fashions that replicated all various kinds of browsing. Along with the Swift, the Shaper Collection included the InstaGator, Maverix, and Large Gun. Over years of R&D and technological developments the Shaper Collection has modified and developed into what you see right this moment. The 2023 Shaper Collection contains The Swift, Harpoon, Shaper, and Ladies’s Harpoon.
Rocker-Camber Fusion Profile
Shaper Collection Established 2017-2018 Season
Swift
2015/16 Season – Current
The By no means Summer time Swift is By no means Summer time’s first trendy snowboard, constructed like a surfboard for the snow. Constructed for browsing not simply powder however for the entire mountain in any situation on any sort of snow. Being the longest working snowboard within the Shaper Collection The Swift is a fan-favorite. That includes a set again stance and two centimeters of taper this board surfs effectively from edge to edge and floats like no different in tender snow. Using Fusion Rocker Camber, this board offers glorious edge maintain, stability at excessive speeds, and floats in powder very nicely.
With a surf fashion form and feeling like a hybrid of a shortboard and a longboard in a single, The Swift surfs all of it.
Shaper/Shaper Twin
Spring 2018 (Early Launch – Chris Corning Olympic Restricted Version) – Current
Being bought since 2018, the Shaper is our second longest working board within the By no means Summer time Shaper Collection. Constructed for the all mountain surfer trying to hit all the pieces of their line. From railing a bottom flip within the pow, or a butter on the groomers, even to a cab 5 off your favourite hit on the mountain, this board is constructed to be an throughout freestyle killer. Don’t let the identify modifications idiot you, this board has simply been getting higher and higher each season for no matter you wish to trip on the mountain.
The Fusion Rocker Camber Shaper Snowboard. Born a mutant, with 10mm of taper, a centered stance, premier change ride-ability, and insane park efficiency the Shaper Twin is dominating the Freestyle Twin Class. A balanced and distinctive efficiency in each terrain ventured. Within the tail, a Ripsaw Rocker Camber so that you get trench digging edge holds on each flip, constant snap out of turns, and large pop. Within the nostril we positioned Authentic Rocker Camber for an insane float and a surfy really feel to maintain you browsing the earth whereas touchdown all the pieces.
The Shaper Snowboard is likely one of the greatest selections for riders who desire a extensively versatile board constructed for numerous terrain and circumstances. We like to check our Shaper to a shortboard with plenty of quantity and narrower width although this isn’t mirrored straight on the engineering of the Shaper
Harpoon
2020/21 – Current
Taking two of our award-winning Shaper Collection Snowboards, the Insta/Gator and the Maverix, The Harpoon was born as a brand new weapon of alternative. The perfect performing, tapered, quantity board ever imagined. Superb nimbility complimented by clean and freakish stability. Swim higher than a whale. Lower higher than a knife. Maintain a line higher than a rocket. Pull the set off. You may trip higher for it.
This board is constructed like a surfboard for the mountain such as you could not even dream of. Steady and holds an edge for each carve or straight line, but if you wish to let unfastened and throw up some snow, The By no means Summer time Harpoon does simply that. Actually a dream if you’re making an attempt to surf the entire mountain. From huge snow waves to small snow pockets, you’ll love the Harpoon in any situation.
The By no means Summer time Harpoon has a hybrid camber profile for all-mountain using which we name Fusion Rocker Camber. The board options an ideal medium flex that’s nice for all skills of riders with plenty of responsiveness and forgiveness permitting for nimble turns whereas sustaining management. Plenty of our staff riders even take this board out within the park. It’s a board everybody ought to strive, simply to really feel how enjoyable this factor is for browsing the mountain.
Ladies’s Harpoon
Spring 2021 Launch – Current
The Ladies’s Harpoon is constructed with all the nice issues that the boys’s options, however simply tuned particularly to girls. A dream come true for any lady that desires to surf the earth. The sensation that this board offers is one thing that simply cant be described with out being felt in particular person. Be a part of a Ladies’s Experience Day and shred with the superior women of By no means Summer time or we provide plenty of demos throughout the nation.
The By no means Summer time Ladies’s Harpoon Snowboard is probably the most versatile and high-performance board appropriate for the widest vary of using types and circumstances. Being designed particularly for ladies who wish to surf the mountain, this board is actually a novel trip that you just will not discover anyplace else.
Insta/Gator
2017/18 Season – 2019/20 Season
The By no means Summer time Insta/Gator snaps out and in of turns, spins like a machine, and rails turns like a practice. This board was constructed to be sized down about ten centimeters and be similar to extra of a shortboard on the waves. Amazingly nimble with stability that’s incomprehensible in a board this measurement. 12mm of taper and big floor space could have you fortunately downsizing with out shedding the efficiency or potential to trip anyplace. It is a new world…modify your stance width, placement, and angles for trip variations that match the times temper, circumstances, and elegance. This board was constructed for taking part in with out shedding efficiency.
The Insta Gator Snowboard is greatest identified for its brief tail, versatile form, and sturdy building. A singular form combines the options of a powder board and an all-mountain board, so that you get the perfect of each worlds. Incorporate the Fusion Rocker Profile and you’ve got one of the enjoyable shortboards to surf the mountain.The board contains a broad nostril and tapered tail sustaining stability and management on groomed terrain in addition to offering easy float in softer snow. With a further variation of this board only for girls, it’s a board constructed for everybody
Large Gun
2017/18 Season – 2020/21 Season
Coming in at its smallest sizing being a 165 centimeter the primary 12 months By no means Summer time launched the Large Gun, this board is admittedly constructed for being an enormous surfer on the mountains. Gun surfboards are made for the most important waves. The Large Gun was made for the most important fashion of browsing across the mountain. 19mm of huge taper with large floor space, the Large Gun is steady at insane speeds and thru any kind of snow. This board is constructed for giant onerous charging, however don’t let it idiot you, it has brief board tendencies if you need and want them most. Aggressive taper to offer you most maneuverability from edge to edge and By no means Summer time’s hybrid rocker camber profile (Fusion Rocker Camber) whereas being a tough charger offers you all the pieces you want in a day charging the mountain.
The By no means Summer time Large Gun is a high-performance snowboard that’s designed for extra superior to knowledgeable stage riders who wish to onerous cost by means of huge mountain terrain.
Maverix
2017/18 Season – 2019/20 Season
The By no means Summer time Maverix may be very distinctive. Really useful that you just measurement all the way in which as much as a ten centimeters distinction than your regular measurement, smaller or bigger. The Maverix contains a wider than common waist width, 17mm of taper, and considerably bigger floor space. This board was constructed to fill that spot in your quiver you couldn’t fairly discover or place, however had been on the lookout for all alongside. Desire a tremendous nimble, broad, shorty with wonderful edge maintain and flexibility? Dimension down the Maverix. Desire a soft trip that is tremendous responsive in a bigger measurement? Dimension the Maverix larger. Both approach you are going to get wonderful efficiency and stylized fluidity that matches all circumstances..not simply the perfect circumstances.
The Maverix has a medium flex score, an awesome alternative for intermediate to superior riders who desire a versatile snowboard that may deal with all the pieces it might come throughout on the mountain from groomers to powder. That includes the By no means Summer time Fusion Rocker Camber profile, this board surfs with ease. You’d be shocked what this board brings to your snowboarding and the way customized trip you possibly can dial in.
