Lightning Bolt
Lightning Bolt is a pure source of inspiration, a surficon born in Hawaii.
Lightning Bolt became the trademark for progressive surfing, through skill in the water, distinction in design and bolt signature. Our history goes back to the beginning of the 70’s, when legendary Gerry Lopez was busy turning the Lightning Bolt logo into the most powerful symbol of the surfing world and starting, at the same time, the shortboard revolution in Hawaii.
The huge 12’ boards, inspired by the ancestral Polynesian wooden flat planks, were then replaced by boards with shapes suited to the various wave sizes and types. There were no limits for the Hawaiian surfers and our boards ruled the huge tubes of Pipeline. The 9’ Guns and 7’ or 8’ Mini-Guns, which had won so many times at Pipeline for Gerry, and later for his fellow surfer and shaper Rory Russell, displayed the Bolt symbol with pride, inspiring the brand’s slogan: “The Bolt – more often seen coming out of the waves’ tubes, across the world”.
After nearly a 30-year hiatus Lightning Bolt is thrilled to reintroduce the surfboards that pioneered the shortboard revolution of the 1970’s and is proud to work with shapers and craftsmen that are state-of-the-art in the game! Rory Russell and Graham Smith are the epitome of just that.
Now it is up to you to choose the board which best suits you’re surfing style and aspirations when riding a retro surfboard of that period and find out why they became so famous!
Lightning Bolt Europe SA
info@lightningbolt.eu.com
Tel. +351 252 300 639
Fax +351 252 300 521
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Retro Wing Swallow Tail Twin Fin MR
Graham Smith Shape & Design. Sanded Finish. Tri-coloured. Available from 5’8”. Graham Smith, from South Africa, has shaped, sprayed and glassed over 50,000 boards with “passion and fi nesse” for many of the top surf talent worldwide. Today, with a 40 years of shaping under his belt, Graham owns Gee Force Surfboards, which was established under the infl ence of the Shaun Tomson era circa 1978. Graham Smith recently began working with Lightning Bolt on the creation of the new surfboard collection.
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Pin Tail Mini Gun - Single Fin
Graham Smith Shape & Design. Gloss Finish.
Bi-coloured. Available from 6’2”.
Pipeliner Special Edition
Mini Gun – Pin Tail – Single Fin. Rory Russell Shape. Gloss Finish. Available from 7’6”. Rory Russell, who is a Hawaiian legend as shaper, surfer and surf films movie star, after the several world class championships he won and as a Pipeline Masters twice winner, riding boards with the Bolt logo, conceived and shaped fast, reliable and manoeuvrable for big and hollow waves. For the last twenty years, he’s been teaching people to surf and shaping. Rory is back again with Lightning Bolt, a brand that never really left his heart.
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