The R.E.D. Impact Shorts help save your ass whether you're doubling up your tricks or just starting out in the park. These shorts' moisture-wicking mesh fabric and breathable padding keep you dry and comfortable throughout the day. A stealth padding design allows the Impact Shorts to fit easily under your snowboard pants without cramping your style. Fully modular and removable armor cushions hard hits and allows you to position the support exactly where you need it, and remove it from where you don’t. - Fall 2008.
I used these shorts last year, they look and feel more like a bathing suit than impact shorts, I liked them, but I now have the Basic Impact shorts, which stay in place way better, and have much better padding.
These have padding in 3 places. Butt, hip, and outside femur. I wear these as "just in case" shorts when mt biking. If you know that there is a good chance you are going to crash..get something better. If you "may" wipe out..these are for you. Very stylish and nobody knows you have pads. The pads do "float" some as Chad said. I bought a pair, fell in love and then got 2 more pairs. I wear a 36 pant and the L fits great.
The shorts are meant to look somewhat baggy and they do. Hip, thigh and tailbone padding. Well placed but kinda loose. They should have built the padding on the inner liner. The sizing is really weird. Talks about extended etc. There is nothing to extend. They tie and fit like a board short. I wear a 34 waist and got a M and they're a bit snug but I imagine the pads would be all over the place in a large. Keeping the M for me!!
