LIB TECH T.Rice Golden Orca Snowboard 2027

Natural Selection winning power predator in both directions. 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. The long floaty Orca nose loves pow. A directional C2 contour rips resort, trenches hardpack carves and blasts off mountainous side hits. A brand new long floaty switch friendly power kink tail rides short powerful and poppy on hardpack but floats like a dream through switch freestyle takeoffs and landings. The beloved Orca merges with magical T. Rice Pro and manifests a golden power beast.  

Volume Shifted, Ride This Board 3-6cm Shorter Than Your Normal Board

Flex: 8/10

Shape: Directional

Bend: Hybrid Directional C2x - Carves the resort, plays in the park and slays the powder. We worked with Travis Rice to develop this perfectly balanced all terrain contour. Mild rocker between your feet combined with powerful cambers to the tips and tails. Enough power, pop, and precision to hit the biggest wedges. Enough float and freedom to rip the gnarliest AK lines.

Core: Extended 60% Makah Hemlock/40% Paulownia - Locally harvested high performance western hemlock from the Makah Sawmill. Lib Tech is excited to work with our Native American neighbors and the original stewards of the land on an exciting new project that brings sustainable business to the tribe and incredible material to their snowboards.

Fibreglass: Triaxial With Basalt Alloy/Carbon X - Triaxial 0° x 45° x 45° oriented fiber combination creates the perfect balance of torsional responsiveness and overall flex performance. Basalt Alloy, a unique volcanic fiber derived from basalt features amazing strength and dampening properties, allowing the creation of light, strong, and amazingly smooth performance rides. Carbon X, light strong, lively carbon fiber strands oriented at 30° to elevate torsional response from your feet to the contact points for optimized performance.

Base: Sintered Knife Cut Base - High density UHMW. Optimized wax retention and toughness. Wax regularly and repair professionally

EXTRAS

Magne-Traction - 7 strategically located and sized edge serrations provide unreal edge hold and control in all conditions.

Ocean Bound Eco Topsheet - New recycled/upcycled top material exclusively on the T.Rice Orca II and T.Rice Golden Orca...The Ocean Bound project is focused on creatively using discarded one time use plastics in danger of ending up in our waterways and ocean for the purposes of good. Amazing top material/cleaner environment for all of us on the planet, including our friends the Orca.

UHMW Sidewalls - Strong high impact ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene. Long molecular chains create rugged impact resistance, resilience and a smooth damp ride.

UHMW Tip/Tail Impact Deflection - Strong high impact ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene Long molecular chains create unbelievable impact resistance, resilience, a smooth ride and minimize tip and tail spin weight.

Birch Internal Sidewalls - Extremely rugged high impact 6 ply sidewall reinforcement.