This is a 20/20 libtech tear ice Orca, the last board that I would ever ride. If I had one board to ride for the rest of my life, this deck sold out so fast in 2019. It’s probably going to do it this season for 2020, it’s an all-mountain, freeride freestyle board for intermediate to advanced level. Riders has a really unique shape, both in profile and overall style of shaping. It’s quick edge-to-edge has a wide platform, there’s a lot of really unique things happening with the Orca and that’s why so many people love it.

If you want to elevate your game, go from where you’re at in your skill and really gonna step it up. This is really one board that does that it can help you progress, because it’s not overly aggressive, it’s still kind of surfy and loose at times, but it still has a quick amount of pop a sweet, ollie spot and floats in really deep snow. So for all those other times, you’ve ridden other boards and gone I wish it. The board would do this or something something happens like I.

Don’t like this feeling, I, don’t think I’ve ever had any of those types of negative feelings with the Orca. It’s really that much fun of a deck like. Overall, though again it is a directional board. The stance is set back two and a half inches. The nose is 20 millimeters wider than the tail. The nose is gonna float really well in deep snow. It does have a c2 X profile shape, which means that’s it’s a hybrid shape. Now, as you see you in this on this flap table has a slight rocker to it.

There’s rocker between the feet. They give us a board that loose kind of floaty feel, but then there’s camber, underneath each foot to the contact points that give it precision to control. It has great amount of Ollie pop and that Ollie pop sweet spot is right where that kink is where that short high tail kicks up now. Some boards, of course, have a kind of gradual long style tails and the ollie spot keeps carrying a very depending on how much energy or the time that you put into it.

This one is always right here and it’s really close to your back foot, so you snap in Ollie, it happens really fast. It’s actually a lot of fun, but another cool thing about the profile shape of the deck is that has a very short running length from the 147 size has a 105 running and then all the way up to that 159 size. This one has a 115 centimeter running race, which is not very long at all, and then you add in a fairly small sidecut radius of seven meters. This is a board that turns really fast.

It just has lots of energy. So, even though the deck is a little bit softer than average, it still has a lot of really cool kind of shaping’s to it that make it feel more aggressive and stable than it maybe wouldn’t have if it wasn’t the shape that it is, if that makes sense, um, yeah I’d say this thing has about a feeling fluctuating of four, maybe a five four and a half, but definitely you know, like I, think the libtech rates it has a little bit stiffer than your average more but I.

Just don’t feel that way. When you look at the general range of flexes of boards across the entire industry, I’d say this is just a little bit softer than your average style board, especially with that c2 hybrid profile. No inside this thing is there’s a real cool construction, it’s pretty simple and it actually keeps the cost down quite a bit. There’s the original power construction. It’s 75% Aspen about 25% Polonia, to keep it lightweight and then has the original power, plus a style option added to it, giving the Orca a black sintered base, which is a godsend.

You can whack this thing up. Keep it waxed up throughout the season, of course, keep it well maintained, there’s a decent amount of structure to this depth, to which I actually really like I, think a little bit more structure than I found in other boards from them check in previous seasons, which is pretty cool, there’s a by X fiberglass on the bottom of that wood core. That makes the board maneuverable, of course, and then a tri X grass. On top again, it gives it just a little bit more energy.

One thing that a lot of people really love about the Orca is that you can basically have I, don’t say any size foot, but you can have a larger size, boot size, 11, 12 13. You can get on these boards because they have wider than average waist width. Now the 147th size has a twenty five point: seven centimeter waist width and then all the way up to that 159 has a twenty six point: seven, so it’s actually fairly wide in the middle. So if you have a size, 9 boot, you can really lay down those deep style cars, especially with that mmm eat or 7-meter sidecut, and then you know.

The Orca, of course, is gonna. Add that manda traction style edge. Seven strated a knife like blade, I, just I, helped a grip on firm snow I ride a lot in Minnesota. We have firm snow here and anytime I’m riding a lib or Mervin style board with Maggie I’m, absolutely in love, because it really does grip in cruddy conditions, but this is a really great board. This is the Orca it will sell out before the snow hits guaranteed. So if you want this thing, are you seeing it you’ve heard about it check out the link below in the description check it out, see if we still have it might be sold out? But really this is a fantastic deck.

I have a feeling: it’s gonna stay within the line for a long time, but a lot of people who wanted this board last year couldn’t get it because they waited too long. So, if there’s a call of urgency to get the work out, if you want one this is it right now don’t blow your chance, because it’s gonna be gone really soon, I’m, not just trying to sell you stuff. You know this is just the truth. Uh-Huh thanks for watching guys. You know, leave a comment, a question. Let me know what you think of the Orca for all those guys who grows out there that road and got one last year, you know Congrats.

Let me know what you think subscribe to the channel better chicken more vids there, hopefully see I’ll, see you guys on snow ripping around on this thing. Peace.

While you watch us get our average riding on this is a semi-concise summary of the lib tech orca. I guess we’re tactically the same species as travis, but his boards never made us feel like we were. They just don’t like to turn. However, this somewhat short wide tapered directional easy turning semi-buttery slashy forgiving board works really well for us.

In fact, I’ve owned a 153 in the past that now own a 150 we’re not that into the loose feel underfoot when one footing or flat basing in harder conditions, but it skids turns easy and once the edge is set, it grips like a champ. It doesn’t have that bucky bouncy feel that many shorter wider boards have an uneven terrain, which is pretty cool.

While we have had more pleasure carving with lots of c3 camber boards like the rocket, this does really well for a c2 board, even though its edges can be grabby and soft wet snow, it has a very set back, easy floating riding powder, that’s way better than any other t rice model. This still has that aggressive straight line kind of travis personality to it, but for the first time it also works with us mellow riding mortals.

This is especially great for those that see hard to icy snow, but want to be ready for those deep days. The only drawback is it’s so popular. You might find yourself skating up to an orca pod in the lift line and feel like you haven’t, made an original choice and now I’ll take you back to the in-depth review on snow and let’s get into the sizing I feel kind of in between 50 and 53.

I think, if I had to make a choice, I might go 53, but I love how quick and how easy this is to ride at 50, so felt like you could handle my weight, though I feel I’m between 32 and 33, but you are aging rapidly as far as boards go um it the sizing honestly, you know trying some 50s yesterday and I was just like. Ah, this feels not fun.

You know there are a lot of 50s they make like short and fat or whatever that I don’t necessarily love. I got on this board today immediately and you know it’s pretty hard conditions out there um, but but still fun, and this board felt great underneath my feet. Although I haven’t tried the 53, I could see how I would also love the 50 yeah.

It’s a little more, a little more powerful though yeah, but even jimbo could handle this with his 11s mm-hmm. Definitely weight wise. He was right from 185 to 160. Right thing was really fun to get over under its edges. For me, yeah for my boots, didn’t you! It took a lot to get my boots to the snow, good good. This I’m just getting a camber profile, the c2 xc2 kind of ish.

I think it’s c2, um, hybrid rocker, basically rocker between the feet, um going to camber and the tip and tail yeah. I mean uh, but still not touching all the way down. It’s it’s um rises up. It’s a very forgiving feel, even though this orca is stiff and kind of aggressive it um it skids turns very easily. You can get off your game with this and recover where, if you’re on the fun boy or c3 boards from mervin like we were just comparing it against you’ll, find that those are much more locked in much more technical and much more unforgiving when it comes to skidding out of turn for those beginner intermediates.

Compared to this to this, this is way more aggressive. Those are still more forgiving than like a full whale said yeah like, but, and then also, though, like if you’re written other c2 boards, like trs or the writer’s choice, or something like that and you come to this you’ll be like whoa. This is pretty pretty aggressive for hybrid rocker um, but all in all pretty good.

Now flex, it’s got. You know it’s got a little bit of that bend in the middle, but overall, it’s very medium stiff, but it was easy to butter uh, especially coming off of like a lot of full stiff camber rides. We’ve been riding coming to this you’re like wow. This gives that gives you that cheater bend in the middle and it really breaks open and lets you butter off the off the nose and tail pretty well yeah, but it also has just lots of pop and drive very lots of volley lots of pockets.

Yeah, you see how it bends you’re, like spring’s, really yeah, it’s a pop. It’s a poppy boy. When you get into speed and uneven snow and chatter, and that kind of thing um. I was surprised at how damp it was for because mervin boards have these kind of like they accentuate the wood core in their design. It seems like they really enhance that woody feel and sometimes that can make it kind of ultra poppy and a little too like not that damp.

This had some dampness at speed for a fifth for a 150. I was pointing this thing yep and it’s not as peter says: bucky lasik, it’s not uh classic. It has a little of that c2 vibration that that that little clown vibration, but it didn’t pass up into my body like I thought it would. No, I’ve ridden this this 53 in a little uneven terrain and uh, I felt like it could bust through chunder and power over stuff pretty well.

What do you think through the through the crispy and variables on the sides of the trails, is yeah and over the ski trail? If you hit a death, if you hit a like a mini death, cookie patch yeah, it’s not gonna, be the end of the world and especially the field or yeah, especially competitions, a lot of other 50s that I’ve written snowboard but uh yeah.

This one definitely had a had a stable feel in in kind of that harder, chandra snow or if you go over like the the groomer inconsistencies, let’s yeah, occasionally like yeah and this edge hold is exceptional. It’s surprising, very aggressive, magna traction and for um c2, hybrid rocker. It really holds well. This is the kind of board that you want on hard to icy snow.

The on snow feel like we forgot to touch on it’s loose it. It wants to auto spin on you yeah, but once you get it on edge, it holds an amazing edge. So, if you’re out in hard snow yeah, it’s gonna be a little weird on a flat cat track, but as long as you keep it on edge, it’s gonna grip, better than anything. You’ll ever see one foot and then occasionally yeah.

So I put my feet close together when I’m one foot, sometimes, if you’re doing a big old chicken air- and you know you just land- you better- you better, lock yourself down and you know, turn initiation. Oh my gosh. This thing was super fast yep. I I would say medium fast. You would not believe the waist width is what it is.

The width is what it is the way it turns. It seems like so that rocker in the middle uh helps you get over faster, helps you transition quickly from edge to edge, but, as I got into wider radius turns and then started getting into carves. I was pretty surprised at how much like coming off the fun boy to this um. It really needed a lot more back foot weight to keep the tail from washing and um.

I I felt like I was in an adjustment period where I have on the 53 gone out all day and just carved and had fun, but it was amazing coming from full camber how much this washed on the tail- hey, stew, he’s he’s, always photobombing us what’d. You guys think I honestly didn’t wash out uh my tail very much um and especially compared to boards.

Yesterday, I felt very locked in on my wide radius turns, but it was the first board I was trying, so it’s different when you like go to other boards, you know and then you’re like. Oh, where can I like push it? A little more? I was like kind of staying more in my comfort zone when I was doing my big radius churns for the first ride of the day I felt like if I wanted to carve a short fat I’d, get the fun boy but um.

This was the third board. I got to ride out of the fleet and I had an absolute blast on it. You were dropping like butt scratching foot, scratchers butt scratches yeah. The glow of my merkaba field changed slightly. You know what that is: gentle readers. I know in a positive direction: good speeds of macabre field, but powder.

This has a decent amount of setback on uh side cut as well as board, and there is good directional float for a board this size and even though it’s a gripper um, it might grab a little bit in the softer snow. It can float and it’s a it’s a floater for its size. Yeah there you have it you’re like you’re like man, that’s not that big in the toilet, but it takes two plushes this guy.

It’s a float. I would write it again floats for its size, the good ride. Sometimes we put a feeder in the middle.

(Upbeat rock music) Lib Tech claims this is their short wide nimble, free-styling, directional, free rider, Three of our experts, took it out. Let’s see how it did Just. So you guys know we are not sponsored by any brands and we don’t get paid for any of these reviews. All our reviews are unbiased, (upbeat rock music), I love this snowboard I own. This snowboard, this current year’s model It’s just so versatile, powerful and you can take it anywhere.

The edge hold’s insane on this board. I can carve this board better than any other snowboard I own It has Lib Tech’s, magna traction edges which really just dig, especially on harder snow And. It’s got a tight side cut, so you can really just rail turns on it. Not the best snowboard for buttering You can do it on the nose You can see. The nose has this kind of big platform here. The tail is not so good for buttering And, it’s just a little too stiff It’s excellent in powder, excellent in groomers, excellent in uneven terrain, It’s great for carving Super stable on landings.

It’s got plenty of pop I love. It (snowboard. Carves through snow) – This year, the 2021 Orca comes with horsepower in it something new that they haven’t added to it in years past Makes it a more powerful ride, a lot poppier a little bit, stiffer super fun. All mountain board, The Orca’s, a super stable board. You can take it through. Anything You can feel confident popping off anything Landings are super stable, Doesn’t, wash out It’s a great all mountain board, Good in groomers steeps, deep snow trees, (upbeat rock music), – So.

This is the Lib Tech Orca And I had a lot of fun on this board. There’s been a lot of hype around it. So I was kind of curious to see if it was over hyped or if it was worth it. It has definitely lived up to the hype It’s a little bit wide for me being a little bit smaller So you, lady riders out there. If you’re riding this, you probably wanna size down a little bit to give yourself a little bit quicker edge to edge responsiveness. I, probably wouldn’t take this board into the park.

It’d be great on some bigger jumps and that kind of thing, but as far as riding the rails and boxes and that kind of thing, probably wanna stay away from this one, – I would recommend the Orca to the intermediate to expert rider who is either looking for an awesome powder board or a really versatile, daily driver that they can use when it’s knee-deep I wouldn’t recommend this board to a beginner, especially if it’s their first board It’s a really unique snowboard It rides a little different than most boards and there’s just better boards for beginners out there There’s tons of different snowboards for different people So.

If you wanna chat about how this board will work for you visit my profile or any of the other expert’s profiles shoot us a message. If, you have tried this snowboard out. I would love to know what you thought of it. Shoot me a message: Cheers (mellow, electronic music).

What’s going on shane serrano here coming to you from radio board shop in aspen colorado in this video, I’m going to be talking about the 2021 libtech travis rice orca, let’s check it out so here we have the 2021 libtech travis rice orca. This is one of the most anticipated boards every year. It’s a super fun, unique style and shape and ride, and is one that a lot of people have been loving in the last couple years. If you don’t know, travis rice is one of the best snowboarders in the world in any terrain, and this is one of his many pro model boards.

This is actually one of the boards. He rides the most. If you watched his most recent movie dark matter last year, a lot of those shots were filmed on this board. So if you want to be like travis rice and you want to rip massive pillow lines, this is the board for you. If this is a board you’re considering buying, you can click the link in the description and I’ll. Send you right to the website for radio board shop where you can buy it from us and help support local snowboarding.

The main reason the orca is such a unique board is because this is a volume shifted board, so they’ve taken the surface area from the length and they’ve put it into the width. So this is a much wider board than what would normally come in these sizes and with that lib tech suggests that you ride this board 3 to six centimeters shorter than your normal length snowboard. That can be something that trips a lot of people up. It might feel or sound weird to ride a board.

That’s a lot shorter, but once you get on one of these boards, you kind of understand how much stability they have and how much they compare to that normal size board. You’re used to take travis rice, for example, he’s about 5, 11 180 pounds and he rides the 153. So he’s you know not a small dude, but he rides the shorter version, it’s what he trusts and relies on, and if he can ride that anybody can ride this in a shorter version. This is a directional all-mountain freeride board, so it’s kind of designed to rip the whole mountain and being directional.

The stance is set back a little bit, so you have a little bit more nose than tail also being directional. This board has 10 millimeters of taper in it, so the nose is 10 millimeters wider than the tail is, and that really helps to give you a little bit better float and powder, and it really helps also to initiate those carves and turns makes turning this snowboard on hard pack super fun. This board comes in sizes, 144, 147, 150, 153, 156 and 159.

This board retails for 649 99, the camber profile you get on the orca is libtex c2x technology. So there is a short rocker zone in the middle of the board camber below each feet, so you kind of get the best of both worlds. Camber and rocker. The camber gives you that stability, when you’re going fast, especially on hard pack and that rocker zone in the middle, gives you good floating powder when you need it. If libtech’s hybrid profiles kind of confuse you, this is pretty much the same as their c2 hybrid profile, the cameron rocker, but it’s just a shorter section of rocker in the middle of the board.

So a little bit more stability and power. This board is built with libtech’s horsepower construction, which means this is a little bit more of an aggressive board. So this is not the board. For that day, one beginner snowboarder it’s more tuned for the intermediate and advanced snowboarder to take it where they need to take it and, like I said this is an all-mountain freeride board, but this is not necessarily a park board. You can go off jumps, you know okay, but there are boards that are much better, that will hit rails and jumps and half pipe than the orca.

One super cool thing that travis and lib tech have decided to do with the orca. Is that they’re donating some of the proceeds of each board sale to the orca conservancy project? They love these animals. They know they’re such a vital part of our environment and of the ocean and how everything works. So they wanted to give back with the boar that is namesake after that killer whale, just like on all of libtech’s boards on the orca you’re going to get edges that are not fully wrapped, so that metal edge stops before the rest of the nose that allows you to more easily repair this board.

If you ran into a tree on the front, you can easily sand it down and the core is kind of set back three inches from where the edge of the board is. So, if you do get an impact on that nose or tail you’re not going to be, you know damaging the core and letting water seep into the core. That’s a cool thing that libtech and gnu do additionally you’re going to get libtex magnatraction on the orca. What that means is this is a serrated edge which gives you seven points of contact into the snow.

So you have a really grippy board in the snow. This kind of matches up good with that c2x hybrid profile and gives you a good grip into like ice if you’re in icy conditions or just good edge hold. If you want to carve hard on the tail of the orca you’re, going to see that it is a very angled kicked out tail, this allows you to really load up those ollies and snap them pop them. When you want to so there you go, that is the 2021 travis rice orca from libtech.

This is a very unique and fun board to ride if you’re skeptical, on the downsizing of the board or just on, like the uniqueness of the board, definitely go and demo one if not and you’re, already sold on it, go and hit the link in the description, and you can buy it right from radio board shop and support local snowboarding thanks for hanging out and watching this video, if you’re not already, subscribed, go and hit that subscribe button, throw that thumbs up like if you’re going to get norca this year.

If you have any comments or questions drop them down in the comment section below and I’ll answer them right away, we will be dropping a lot more content later down the line in the winter, whether it’s board, reviews gear reviews and a lot of fun adventures. So make sure you’re tuning in for that, and we will see you in the next video peace.

This is the libtech orca that everyone’s talking about it’s got c2x bottom contour, which is tons of camber out the tail mild rocker between the feet, camber out the nose and a little early rise. It’s a volume shift shape with a deep side cut works really well. In groomers, we had our team rider, kai hugging, ripping it up at Mount Baker this weekend. It’s super versatile, it’s great for Powys and cut up snow. It’s my personal daily driver and I recommend it for anyone.

That’s intermediate to advanced and likes to have a surface shape. It’s a little bit different than a popsicle stick. If you want to learn more about the libtech Orca check it out at tactics.

Hi everybody jeremy from the snowball asylum and today we’re going to be taking a look at the libtech tea rice orca. Now, when libtech first launched the orca, it very quickly established itself as one of the most popular short wide powder focus freeride boards on the market. However, after a very short amount of time, lib tech pretty much discovered that, although this board was designed as a quiver board for powder, more and more people were wanting to use it as their daily rider.

It was that much fun to ride that people just didn’t want to go back to their original snowboards. Now as brilliant as the orca is, it was always designed to be a powder board, so what people were finding that, when you kind of wanted to ride it as your everyday board, it was lacking in a little in a few areas, so uh not wants to kind of sit back on their haunches. Uh libtech have redesigned this orca for this year and have like upped the performance up the spec and, in doing so have created one of the most fun to ride all-terrain freeride boards that you can possibly put your feet on to.

So, let’s take a look at what they’ve done with it so start off, with the shape pretty much retains the same shakers that as a traditional orca. So what you’ve got is a fully directional uh, longer nose short tail short wide board. So really, what libtech are doing here is swapping length for width, kind of gaining surface area and volume by kind of going for a wider shape, allowing them to kind of produce a board. That’s shorter overall just gives a more responsive and dynamic ride that extra width at the nose and cut back tails just going to channel snow under the front of the board.

It’s going to kind of hit this increased volume just just give you kind of effortless lift and flow. So, although the board’s kind of pretty tiny, it isn’t gonna feel short in powder, you’re, just gonna be able to stand on this and the board’s just gonna lift and do all the work now by kind of running a short tail as well. That allows the designers to kind of put in a longer side cut into the board, for what is a relatively short shape. Now that side cut is pretty deep as well seven meters on all lengths.

So what that’s going to give you is a really maneuverable really dynamic ride. That kind of on-edge performance is then further enhanced by the addition of libtex magnatraction, so magnatraction places seven bumps along the length of the sidecut. Those bumps work as traction points which kind of really bite into the snow, pretty much the same way: a bread knife kind of carves a lot easier than trying to cut a loaf of bread with a standard knife. This thing just rips in kind of hard packed snow, even in those kind of really early morning, icy conditions you’re going to get a level of edge hold on this.

That will blow your mind if you’ve kind of never ridden this kind of side cut before now profile wise uh, it utilizes the c2 camber, now c2 camber kind of gives the board an overall rocker shape, so you’ve kind of got rocker from the middle out. As you can see here, that’s just going to help the board float in deep snow again channel the snow under the board, however kind of what they do with the c2 camber is under the binding areas. You kind of got really aggressive, camber zones.

So when the board is on its edge, these camber zones are going to push out transfer energy the full length of this edge so that energy, along the full length of the edge in collaboration with those magna traction contact points and that deep cycle, it’s just going to give you a really rock-solid and stable, feel on the edge even at the highest speeds. You’re just going to have to crank this board through the turn and not worry that it’s not going to hold now kind of one of the big changes this year is last year the orca utilized libs op construction.

This year it steps up to the horsepower construction. So what you’re doing then, is you kind of uh the wood in the core changes? So you move to 60 aspen 40 polonia that creates a board that is featherweight uh to ride uh. It weighs nothing um, but it’s also got loads of response and loads of power as well. Thanks to that aspen also what they do as well, which again kind of adds. Another dimension of power in response to the board is that it runs a uh birch strip that runs across um.

The side of the sidecar that birch strip just adds another kind of layer of power to that side, cut again just enhancing that performance and also adds an extra bit of durability, because it’s almost creating an additional side wall um inside the board as well. Structural layers are then formed from uh, a combination of triax and biax glass. The triax just gives the board it’s kind of dynamic power and response the biax just kind of gives it a slightly smoother overall feel. So you really get that perfect, compa um composition of great performance, but more of an easy going ride.

So you can ride this board at 10 10 all day and it isn’t going to kill you now to those structural layers. They also add a layer of basalt that basalt just kind of again gives an extra kind of bit of power and a bit of rebound to the board just makes it more dynamic to ride base material utilizes a liftex tnt base. This unique base material, which is exclusive to lib, uh kind of, is, is a sintered base, but it’s kind of centered very differently to most other bases uh. This is a sintered base that you don’t need to wax all the time to get the most out of it.

It has what they call a crystalline finish and that crystalline finish beads the water without the need for wax. So if you can’t be bothered to wax this every morning, it’s really just going to perform pretty much the same as a sintered base that you have to wax. So you get the best of both worlds, performance and ease of maintenance, so they have it the libtech orca, if you’re on the market for a short, wide board, you want to kind of change how you perceive your free ride. Snowboarding get yourself on one of these boards.

They do make. You rethink your whole snowboarding. They are so much fun to ride. Personally, I won’t ride anything other than a short wide board anymore. It really is that good. You.

At the libtech tear ice Orca for 2020, if you don’t know about this board, you obviously miss the party last year. This big could not have made enough of these boards last year because everyone get their hands on it, including myself, because this is a super awesome. Fun do anything type of snowboard that wants to ride the deep snow as well as crush any groomers. In its way, it is a short stubby fat, little snowboard that I, don’t wanna, gets their hands on the biggest takeaway from the libtech.

Orca is obviously giving its size. This is a 147. This would be the size that I want to ride I’m about 150 560 pounds, depending on how many beers I’ve had the night before, but it is a definitely board that you want to size about five to eight centimeters down from regular size, even though it is a 147, it does seem a little bit scary, but it has a wider profile overall and a deeper side cut.

So the water profile is nice, because you don’t worry about tone, he’ll drag and the deeper side cut is amazing. Along with the magnatraction makes us that sink holes, they can edge like no tomorrow and also turns on a dime. So you can be bombing down the groomers of this thing and not be getting squirrely at all and make sure that edge does not let go also with the libtech.

Orca is gonna, have the c2 X profile, so you have rocker between the feet, which is amazing in the deep snow makes it super easy to turn from edge to edge and a really surfy ride, but then, as extended camber points from outside the inserts, all the way to the nose and tail. So it does almost grip like a regular fold, camber snowboard, but you still have the rocker between the feet when you really need it like the deep days that we always hope we get so the big thing with the libtech Orca, it’s small, it’s fast holds an edge like no.

Tomorrow floats like a dream in the deepest snow you can find and just makes an overall really fun. Snowboard to ride, if you are building your quiver, you need to have the libtech Orca in your quiver. I know: I! Have it on my wish list. I just want a short fun. Snowboard like the libtech orchid, a ride anywhere, whether it’s groomers or deep snow. This board can definitely handle.

It definitely came out of a dream from Travis, Rice and I’m so glad they made it come true, because this board is just super fun to ride, definitely need to grab this board before they’re all gone like your head to the shop or head to Pierre board shop, calm, we’ll ship it out to you next day and make sure you get this board in time before the snow falls.

Yo, what’s up guys Kevin here today, I met riding at Stevens, Pass and I wanted to talk to you guys about the libtech Orca, so I’ve been waiting quite a while to do a full powder review on this board. I really wanted to test it out in the best possible conditions and over the last few weeks, I’ve been lucky enough to ride the Orca and the Seco de panne, through some of the deepest powder I’ve ever written through. So I think I’ve got a pretty good idea of how this board delivers in powdery conditions, so right off the start guys.

The thing that really makes this a great powder board is the larger nose so with good pal boards. A good powder board will have a smaller tail to help the tail sink and then a fatter nose to help the nose float. So this shape I really found that riding in Japan the larger nose helped the board to float. Another thing that helps this board afloat and powder is the rocker between the bindings I’ve tried a few powder boards that are full camber and I, find that with the full camber, it makes it more difficult to keep that nose up, but the rocker in between the bindings really helps this board to float, to keep the nose up and just to ride pretty effortlessly through the powder snow.

The other thing I love about the orca, is the camber zones underneath the bindings. So the camber zones really make this board feel lively, so as I’m doing a drop as I’m riding through trees. Those camber zones under the feet really give me a lot of pop and a lot of control, so especially on landings. I really feel like the camber on the back foot helps me to get an ollie and then the dual camber zones really help to land a drop and ride it out. Another thing that helps this board land in powder is the tail I’ve tried a few powdered boards that don’t have a tail, have the swallow cut out and those are really fun for surfy powder boards.

But for powder boards, where you want to land a drop, I really feel like having a tail, helps you to land the drops and just gives you more control, especially with riding at high speeds. Having the extra bit of tail helps. You just have that bit more control for riding at high speeds, and you feel, like you, have a tail. That’s gonna have your back through those conditions, so this is actually my second libtech board. Last year, I had the 2019 Orca and a size 153, the smaller size, I think is great for doing quick turns through powder, and it’s still wide enough to help you float, but this year with the 2020 Orca I got the 159 and that larger size, I think is better for going at high speeds for helping to land drops and still very maneuverable through the trees.

So it’s a bit of personal preference. If you prefer quick, turns through the trees, I’d go for a shorter size. Orca. If you like, riding at high speeds, big open bowls landing drops I might go for a larger Orca. This year, I also threw on the now drive bindings, which are a stiffer binding. So something to go with a stiffer harder charging board is a pair of stiff bindings that way, if you’re plowing through powder at high speeds, these bindings are gonna. Have your back and they’re, not gonna flex out too much that stiffness is going to transfer your movements into the board, giving you that all that response that you need so overall guys, the libtech Orca, is definitely my favorite powder board.

The reason I speak so highly of it is because, as I’m riding through powder, I actually feel like it’s making my powder riding even better and I definitely felt that in Japan, so whether I was hitting a drop, I felt like I was landing more stuff than usual or just riding at high speeds through the trees. I really felt like this board was helping me to ride at that pace with that performance and definitely I felt like the board was helping to improve my powder riding I. Don’t know if this is actually the best powder board around there’s a lot of personal preference out there it’d be great to hear from you guys in the comments.

What is your favorite powder board and what are some of the board’s that you would recommend to your friends? Thank you guys so much for watching. If you liked this video make sure to subscribe and like I’ll, put a link to the libtech Orca in the description below. If you want to check it out, thank you guys. So much for watching half Arthur snowboarding see the next one soon.

Hello, my name is Eddie wall. We are here at bald-faced, lodge in British Columbia for the 2019 Transworld Snowboarding powder board review. This is one of the boards. We rode here, the libtech Orca, one of the first things you’ll notice about this board is that it only comes in a 153 which at first comes as a surprise, because many powder boards are larger than at 153. The reason that this board works so well in the powder, even though it is a 153, is because of a few factors, one the width of this board, the taper going into the tail and then also the setback inserts.

This board was designed with Travis rice and it would not necessarily be a board that he would bring to Alaska, but something that he would mount up on more of a fun day when he would want to be a little bit more playful. The profile of this board is reverse camber in between the bindings and then going to regular camber out into the tip and tail with a slight early rise going into the nose. The Flex of this board is medium, but a bit on the stiffer side. The best part about this board is that it’s easy to control, it’s very versatile and very responsive.

The other thing that surprised us was, even though this board was short, it really floated on an extremely deep day. The amount of float packed into this relatively short board is astounding. Although this is a powder specific board, it’s also a board that you can probably ride every single bit. Another detail of this board is the magnatraction edges, and what that’s going to do is help you, even if you’re riding in powder, if you get yourself into some hard pack or icy or situations, that’s just going to help you have more control.

This is the libtech Orca. One of that we wrote here in the 2019 Transworld Snowboarding powder board movie.