Team riders immediately loved the Stealth, mainly as a groveler or extreme junk contest board. Before long they were asking for “The same board, but with my shortboard rails, and a regular squash tail”. So we did it and handed them out for everyone to try. We received almost unanimous feedback saying that we had successfully converted the “Rocket” into a performance shortboard. Throughout 2009 it was an underground favorite.

Nearly every teamrider, hot grom, and random pro who got boards from us rode The Stealth Pro. Ward, Ian Walsh, Kolohe, Cory Lopez, and dozens of contest groms were ordering them by name. Coco Ho used one to Win the 2009 WQS, The Rip Curl “Search” WCT event in Portugal (Her first WCT win, at 18 years of age) and was named the 2009 ASP Rookie of the Year. Now, in 2010, we have it in the lineup for the public as well.