Description
2025 Lib Tech T.Rice Apex Orca Snowboard
New! The ultimate apex Natural Selection winning, pow pillow blasting directional snowboard in pinnacle apex “Techno Pop” carbon carbon technology performance construction. Travis took his beloved Orca and merged it with his elite high performance snowboard world freestyle tour dreams and multiplied them by Mike Olson’s technical composite wizardry to come up with this ultralight 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. The Orca’s unique powerful short radius camber tail provides power and control and maximum mobility and control in tight, steep technical terrain. Unidirectional carbon over 30° carbon mega X over magnesium fiber bands wrapping a recycled PET plastic bottles, Paulownia, and FSC® certified Aspen core. Eco sublimated bio beans top and rugged, fast sintered base. All this and the elimination of swing weight with new “Anti Matter” 3 -D tips and tails… Our favorite twin power fish snowboard just went bionic.
VOLUME SHIFTED, RIDE THIS BOARD 3-6 CM SHORTER THAN YOUR NORMAL BOARD.
CAMBER PROFILE
- ORCA C2X Directional – A shorter, more aggressive banana rocker combined with cambers that sit more underfoot. Extra solid tip and tail pressure for power, pop, precision and end-to-end stability combined with a medium amount of pressure between your feet for carving, edge hold on ice and float in pow.
FLEX
- Medium - Stiff – Stout enough to charge your hardest but without excessive harshness.
- 7/10
SHAPE
- Directional
- Volume Shifted – Ride this board 3-6 cm shorter than your normal board.
- Lightweight Spin Slim Tip / Tail - Reduced thickness in the tip and tail reduce swing weight, giving you quicker spins and a lighter board.
CORE
- Techno Pop Construction(TP) - Extended 30% Aspen / 25% Paulownia / 45% (PET)Recycled Bottles - Lightest, environmentally nicer, liveliest. Combines 30% Aspen and 25% Paulownia and 45% (PET) recycled plastic bottles with unidirectional carbon, 30° carbon mega X and magnesium techno fiber bands for a super smooth, light weight ride.
- Lightweight Spin Slim Tip and Tail - Reduced thickness in the tip and tail reduce swing weight, giving you quicker spins and a lighter board.
- Anti Matter 3-D Tip and Tail - 3-D carbon reinforced spin weight reducing absence of matter in the tip and tail.
LAMINATES
- Unidirectional Carbon / 30° Carbon Mega X / Magnesium Techno Fiber Bands
SIDEWALLS
- Birch Internal Sidewalls - Extremely rugged high impact 6 ply sidewall reinforcement.
- UHMW Sintered Sidewalls - Strong high impact ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene. Long molecular chains create rugged impact resistance, resilience and a smooth damp ride.
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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.
BASE
- Sintered Knife Cut Base – High density UHMW. Optimized wax retention and toughness. Wax regularly and repair professionally.
EDGES
- Magne-Traction® – Strategically located edge serrations provide unreal edge hold and control in all conditions. Turns ice into powder.
TOPSHEET
- Eco Sublimated Bio Beans Top – This plant oil based top material is environmentally friendly, rugged, scratch resistant and prints amazingly well with Mervin's eco sublimation process.
ADDITIONAL FEATURES
- Mervin Made – Hand made at the Mervin Factory in Washington, USA with zero hazardous waste.
BINDING COMPATIBILITY
- 2 x 4 Inserts
SIZING RECCOMENDATION
Travis Rice
Height: 5’11” Weight: 190lbs, Boot size 11
Board size:
Apex Orca 153: I ride this board off resort and it excels in Backcountry and pow. I rode this board at the Revelstoke Natural Selection event.
Apex Orca 156: I ride this board off resort and I will frequently ride the Apex 156 where I normally would ride the Orca 153 as it is even lighter than the 153 and with a reduced spin weight but added surface area, it is a great hack if you normally would ride the Orca 153. ~Travis Rice
BOARD SIZE CHART
| Length (cm) | Contact Length (cm) | Waist (mm) | Nose / Tail Width (cm) | Sidecut (m) | Setback (IN) |
| 153cm | 110 | 267 |
30.7 / 29.8 | 7 | 2.5" |
| 157cm | 113 | 267 | 30.9 / 30.0 | 7 |
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| 161cm | 115 | 267 | 31.1 / 30.2 | 7 |
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