Warly released by Lib Tech, Travis Rice has used the knowledge gained from the Orca to create the Golden Orca, the freestyle evolution - merging Rice's go-to boards, the Orca and the T.Rice Pro.
The C2X Banana camber profile has been used, as in the original Orca, which has been adapted from the award-winning C2 profile and provides a shorter, more aggressive rocker between the feet with a longer camber that sits more underfoot. This makes initiating turns easy and helps maintain float in powder. This profile also contains extra tip and tail pressure to enhance pop, stability, and precision.
The Firepower Construction uses a combination of 50% Aspen, 40% Paulownia and 10% Balsa which is super light but also provides the smoothest ride of all Lib tech's cores. What sets the Golden Orca apart is the new, long, floaty, switch-friendly, power kink tail which is poppy and powerful on hard-packed snow, still offers loads of float in powder, and has no problem riding switch.
Lib Tech’s innovative Magne-Traction edge construction gives the board a serrated shape that digs into the crust and grants absolutely effortless edge hold in the steepest and iciest conditions.
Coming with a generous wide waistline, this board is literally made for ploughing deep powder and carving up the corduroy. The wide shape allows you to really lay it over onto its edges without the slightest bit of toe drag, so you can edge out the biggest carves on the hardpack and the surfiest of deep powder turns. A deep 8-meter side cut will really get you laying out those perfect turns and massive snow sprays just like the master himself.
Lib Tech and Travis took his Orca learnings and merged them with his elite high-performance snowboard world freestyle tour dreams to come up with this supreme Orca freestyle evolution.
Firepower construction - Lighter and Smoothest construction containing a three-type wood core, Basalt Triax fibre glass, Bio Beans tops sheet, TNT base, Birch and sintered sidewalls and tip/tail impact deflection
C2X - Hybrid Banana rocker and Camber profile, extra solid tip and tail pressure for power, pop, precision and total stability. Medium amount of pressure between your feet for carving, edge hold on ice and float in pow
Magne-Traction - Seven points of focused edge control to provide unreal edge hold and control in all conditions. By creating a serrated edge with 7 bumps you get more contact with the snow and more grip and control
Tri-Ax Fibreglass - The perfect blend of Tri-Ax fibreglass at 45°, 45° and 90° to enhance torsional strangth
Eco Sublimated Bio-beans top sheet - Environmentally friendly bio-plastic top sheet created from Beans! Eco-friendly and providing the best strength to weight ratio of all top sheet materials on the market!
UHMW Sidewalls - Unique to Lib Tech boards these are tough, fast, hard, waterproof and best of all eco friendly due to the lack of toxic ABS!
UHMW Tip & Tail Impact Deflection - Reinforcements to protect your board from scratches, dings and de-lams
Birch Internal Sidewalls - 90 degree pop tech and power transfer spines developed in Lib Tech skateboards are placed along the sidewalls to add extra control, strength and more pop
Eco Sublimated Sintered Base - Ultra Fast, durable base with high wax absorption
Hand Crafted in the USA (Near Canada) -Hand built snowboard by enthusiastic staff at Mervin. Each board comes with the individual makers mark of approval
Lib Tech is most famous for two of the technologies they introduced to the world of snowboarding: banana shape snowboard profiles and Magne-traction edges. Together these revolutionized snowboarding back in the early part of this century but Lib has not rested on its laurels, constantly introducing fresh ideas and stunning graphics to all of its snowboards.