The hybrid camber with early-rise powder snowboard inspired by the original Kemper SR 140. David Kemper was fourteen years old in the winter of 1984/85 when he started hand-building snowboards in the basement of his house. The first snowboard David built was the Kemper Freestyle and during the winter of 1986/87, he created the SR 140 which had a P-Tex base and an ABS top sheet, but no metal edges. Kemper handmade around 90 snowboards over those first 3 years.