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The NEW Lost Surfboards Quiver Killer Surfboard is a fast, forgiving shortboard that picks up where the Lost Short Round left off.

NEW MODEL ALERT! Matt Biolos is at it again & we couldn’t wait to test his latest model – this is the Lost Quiver Killer Surfboard Review + Futures Fins Lost Carbon Fins. Tweaking the popular Short Round model for bigger, better waves produces and ‘interesting’ shape that is surprisingly capable in hollow, critical surf.

I don’t know that I would call this a true quiver killer as the best size range is intentionally higher (I liked it shoulder / head high and above).

Hope you dig this Lost Quiver Killer Surfboard Review + Futures Fins Lost Carbon Fins. Don’t forget to SHARE you clever frother, you.

Have a question? Wondering if the Lost Surfboards Quiver Killer Surfboard is the right board for you? Let’s talk about it in the comments…

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Pluses

+ Paddles onto waves easily and has tons of run down the line

+ Performance tweaks of the board versus the Short Round – the increased rocker and the slightly narrower nose and tail – make this board surprisingly capable in tricky, heavier, more challenging conditions

+ Feels really smooth and lively underfoot, especially when the swell goes head high or overhead

Minuses

–  It feels big for the volume, which is usually the opposite of the Lost boards I’ve had. I felt this was limiting when trying to surf the Quiver Killer in smaller surf. Just too much board to throw around easily

Benny Rides 

The Lost Surfboards Quiver Killer surfboard model  at 6’5 X 21.5 X 2.75 at 41.44 L’s. I surfed the Quiver Killer with the Futures Fins by Matt Biolos – new Lost Futures Fins 5 fin setup. I never surfed the board as a thruster, I always surfed it as a quad and it felt natural.

Standard Lost Surfboards Quiver Killer Surfboard dimensions and volumes may be found at the bottom of this page.

Best Wave Type

This board is best in waves that are a minimum shoulder high to head high that it handles waves that are well overhead, hollow and critical surprisingly well given the wider outline overall.

Features

• Increased rocker versus the Lost Short Round
• Nice, precise rounded “thumb” tail
• The overall outline rocker is simple and clean with a continuous curve and lengthened vs. the Short Round

Compare To

• Channel Islands Surfboards Pod (Round Tail) Surfboard Review: this is how I imagine the Pod would feel and perform at 6’5!
• hmmmm….

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Video Summary

Hi, I’m Ben. This is Benny’s Boardroom. Hope you’re doing well. This is the Lost Surfboards Quiver Killer.

I got this board to take to a trip to South Africa. The last time I went to South Africa, I brought some shorter boards. I brought a stubby hybrid board around 6’2″ and it wasn’t enough length for the waves there.

The waves in South Africa are always powerful, grunty and generally a bit bigger. That 6’2″ really didn’t handle the big, steep drops. This time I was thinking,

“Ok, I’m not going to need to bring any small boards. I’m only going to bring bigger boards.”

The Board

I talked to Dave, the lovely gentleman that I deal with in Lost Surfboards in Australia and I asked him what all rounder shortboard would you take for slightly better waves and he recommended the Quiver Killer.

The Quiver Killer didn’t even exist – it was only getting finalized at that point – when I ordered it. I had no idea what it was going to look like and what it was based off. I didn’t know the story behind it. I didn’t know anything beyond the fact that Dave knows me pretty well and he knows the kind of boards that I like to ride and he recommended it. He told me that it was a little bit longer and had a round tail and a five fin, so I was pretty sold on that, round tail, five fin.

Interestingly though, this board is bigger than I expected. It has a lot of surface area. Now that I know the story of it, it’s actually based off of the Lost Short Round.

I think Biolos really liked the way the Short Round felt when the surf was smaller. I felt the same way. In the waist high range, stomach high, shoulder high, in weaker, mushier surf the Short Round is just amazing. Super fast, easy to throw around. It’s a super fun and fast all around board, but it does have limitations.

This board is intended to address those limitations.

This Lost Surfboards Quiver Killer is meant to take the size range that you can surf with your Short Round and it’s been tuned to handle bigger waves. In South Africa where I got to put it to the test, it did just that.

The main difference between this and the Short Round are, overall, this board has a little bit more rocker, so you see that it’s got a little more curve throughout the board. It has this cool, thin, nice feeling rounded thumbnail. You can see it is quite narrow. It keeps a lot of width through the tail, but it is thin so it feels very sensitive.

Biolos has also removed some of the area through the nose. You can see that the nose is a little more pulled in.

I got this board and even for me I was like, “Dang, this thing looks huge!” The dims are about spot on for what I’d ride for a small, stubby all rounder. It’s 6’5″, 21.5, 2.75, 41.44 liters.

If you’re looking for a nice forgiving option for a shortboard type feel but something that is going to cover a healthy wave range with an emphasis on bigger, more hollow and more powerful surf, this Lost Surfboards Quiver Killer should be a interesting option for you.

Experience in the Surf

I took it to this right hand beach break in Cape Town that I’ve surfed many times and it’s a challenging wave on your backhand. It’s super fast. It wedges off of off this beautiful rocky headland and produces these fast, hollow barrels.

The last time I went to South Africa I could barely make it on the waves. It was like 1 in 10 I would make the drop on these things.

With this board I was making most of the drops. I wasn’t getting amazing waves. I didn’t get to come out of any barrels. But compared to the last time that I had surfed that wave, where I could barely make the drop and get into those really tight, hollow, fast, wedgy waves, I got in quite easily.

It felt really nice and smooth on my backhand. All of that width through the outline never felt like it got in the way too much. It didn’t feel bulky.

Now mind you, I didn’t do a turn with this board the whole time I was in South Africa. All the waves that I surfed this board on were like that. They are wedgy, hollow, fast things where you’re taking a fast drop and pulling in.

Now that I’ve had a chance to surf this board in and around Sydney, it does turn. It has some of the feel of the Short Round. It’s definitely not as capable at the smaller end of the wave range as the Short Round.

I feel that this is best in bigger surf – probably shoulder or even head high and larger. Even for me, it felt big, but it’s really just the fact that it has a lot of surface area. It has this flat, clean, elliptical design and then the foam has been distributed throughout the plan shape evenly. It doesn’t have any really thick points through it.

It has the volume I normally ride in a stubby 6’0″, 6’1″ or 6’2″ but distributed across a size of a 6’5″

Fin Setup

For fin setups, I choose to go with Futures Fins again. I was using these new Futures Fins Lost Five fin set. They have a thruster fin but I didn’t surf with the thruster.

The Futures’ boys convinced me to put this little plug thing that apparently reduces the drag of the board. I’m frankly not good enough to know the difference, if there was drag where it wasn’t there before. But I thought I would give it a go and it looks cool.

Anyways, I surfed this board as a quad the entire time using this set up. It felt natural. It felt nice with the board, so I never switched up to a thruster.

Summary

The good and the not so good of this Quiver Killer…I wouldn’t call this a Quiver Killer. That’s one thing that I’d say that’s not so good about it.  I think this does lean towards the higher end of the wave range. It’s got a lot of rocker running through out it. It is wider. The wider outline and the volume will get you across flat sections. This volume, which is roughly where I would normally be at 6’5″ it just felt like too much board for smaller surf.

That’s why, to me, it leans to be for bigger, more average surf – waves in the head high to overhead range.

You get those bigger wind swells that we get in Sydney and the East Coast of Australia. Those conditions would be great on this board because it’s got the length to take bigger drops and handle speed.

I wouldn’t surf it down much lower than shoulder high. I don’t think it’s intended for that. That is where the Short Round and those types of stubby hybrids really take effect. If I’m surfing in smaller waves, I want to have a smaller, shorter board to throw around a bit more.

The good is that it is a really forgiving, easy board to ride. It can handle some pretty challenging conditions.

That wave I was talking about in South Africa is a hard wave to surf, even South Africans don’t like to surf it. A lot of South African I know in Cape Town don’t really like to surf that wave. It’s super fast. It gets really hollow.

You can get some great waves there, but it is a really challenging wave, especially on your backhand. To be able to pull into waves like that, with this bigger outline, I was really impressed by that. It does have this nice, balanced, forgiving feel about it, lots of speed, lots of pace down the line, really easy to paddle onto waves.

Conclusion

That is the Lost Surfboards Quiver Killer. A very interesting different option from Matt Biolos and Lost Surfboards. An evolved, more performance oriented, larger surface area board with a little bit more rocker and a nicer, more precise, elliptical outline vs. the Short Round, which it’s based off of.

I hope you’re doing well. As always, please SHARE this. Comment if you have a question and I will speak to you again soon.

Thank you so much for watching.

Stock Standard Dimensions & Volume

Standard Lost Surfboards Quiver Killer Surfboard Dimensions & Volumes available at Lost Surfboards.

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