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Lobster Sender 2022-2023 Snowboard Review

Tested and selected for our top 100 snowboard products of the year: the Lobster Sender

  • Price: $530
  • Category: All-Mountain
  • Sizes: 153, 156, 158W, 159, 161W
  • Flex: 7/10
  • Shape: Directional Twin
  • Profile: Camber
  • 3D: Yes
  • Base: Sintered

Why We Chose The Lobster Sender: We love boards that have the boldness, star power and sheer baked-in quality of a young Elvis Presley – so naturally, we return to Sender.

When the Lobster Sender first appeared, from chairlifts to barstools all you’d seem to hear was talk of ‘sending it’ (or indeed, going ‘full send’). The parlance of our times may have adapted, but this board still epitomises the caution-to-the-wind approach that made it a smash hit right out of the gate. Sendicus!

“The brothers Helgason cooked up the Lobster Sender for those who carpe the absolute diem out of every mountain encounter”

Who Is The Lobster Sender For?

Wallflowers need not apply; the brothers Helgason cooked up the Lobster Sender for those who carpe the absolute diem out of every mountain encounter. The target customer is in the air one minute, redlining on piste or pow fields the next, never phoning it in and always bringing their A-game.

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Shape, Profile and Sidecut

The outline of this one is a dead ringer for the Lobster Stomper, in that it’s a fairly conventional directional twin with just a smidge more length in the nose than the tail.

Where it starts to deviate from the Stomper is in the camber profile. Both boards have it, but it’s more pronounced here on the Sender. As well as more ollie power, that extra bend makes it easier to achieve that locked-in feeling when you’re carving on piste. Put simply, for a rider that knows what to do with it, there’s still no substitute for the full-English camber.

The heightened probability of an edge-catch is neatly dealt with by the ‘3D’ sections of base at the nose and tail, which raise the sides of the board slightly whilst maintaining a flat central section along the full length of the deck. These do just enough to make edge changes a less hairy prospect, without completely disrupting the feeling of having a solid, dependable platform under your feet.

“The 3D base sections do just enough to make edge changes a less hairy prospect”

Construction and Materials

That increased margin for error comes in especially handy when you consider the fact that the Lobster Sender is built with triax fibreglass. Less malleable than the biax equivalent, it delivers serious stability and lightning-fast response, but also means that more effort is required to twist the board through the waist. Helping out a little in this department is the carbon lay-up; two strips each in the nose and tail run from the tips to the binding inserts. This means even more explosive power than the camber profile already provides – helping to make this Lobster’s stiffest board overall – but the mid-section remains a little softer.

The base has actually been downgraded from the ‘Ultra Glide’ to the ‘Hyper Glide’ – it seems that only Halldor’s pro model gets the former from now on – but it still offers plenty of pace when you want to open the throttle.

Finally, the Lobster Sender features the brand’s most prolific core and sidewalls. Neither are particularly worthy of note but both are widely used across the line for the simple reason that they do a great job.

“This board still epitomises the caution-to-the-wind approach that made it a smash hit right out of the gate”

Roundup

The Lobster stable doesn’t cater to all tastes, and has never tried to. You won’t find anything for progressing newbies or ice-axe-weilding freeride addicts, for example. What the brand has done really well is behave a bit like a pub with a small, focused menu that pulls in the punters from miles around.

By setting some brackets around that ever-popular category of ‘all-mountain freestyle’ riders, Lobster has then been able to cater to the myriad niches within. The Sender ensures that those who dwell at the more confident, adventurous end of that particular spectrum are well catered for – so if that sounds like you, don’t pass this one over.

Pros:

  • If you don’t settle for less than honest-to-goodness camber, you’ll find it here on the Sender
  • For all its fightin’ talk, this isn’t so aggressive as to leave you hamstrung when the conditions call for mini-shred

Cons:

  • The base, while still high quality, has been downgraded for 2023
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