mullins01

Nice picture, thanks for sharing. Shape of the tip looks familiar but mine had a symmetric tail. "This ridiculous stance on the picture looks so weird now." Why, what kind of stance do you ride today? Michael

Thank you, this post brought a lot of memories back. I had an apocalypse 5S I bought back in the 1992-1993 season that I used as a race board in high school. I went on to use it as a freeriding board for 10+ years. It was as described above - black channeled base, black top with apocalypse logo in red and lettering TAC: tapered asymmetric core. Before that I rode a Burton Asym Air (another great board). But the 5s was the best all-around snowboard I ever owned. To this day every time I think about I kick myself for selling it in the mid-2000s when I for some stupid reason decided it was 'too old'. Honest to god I think about it today and I get mad at myself for giving it up. It was I think a 158 and you guys are right about the stiffness. I'm 6'7 and rode both slalom and GS on it. The board was so strong it could handle ridiculous speeds just riding the tail. A couple other features I remember is that it had a slightly raised tail for mixed conditions and you could even ride it fakie in an emergency (typically to dodge some out of control skier), and a tall nose with a relatively pointed tip that was good for crud. I rode that board all over the mountain - fresh snow, whatever. It was short enough (for me) that it was very maneuverable. It wasn't great in powder (not a huge surprise). Here's to regrets I suppose but that was a great line of boards. Core was great, boards were well made. I doubt I'll ever see one again but here's hoping.