Nitro Sub Zero - 2010

Quick
stats: Recommended for park riding.

Press, slide, tweak and revert, infact do any rail trickery you can think of. The Nitro Sub Zero offers super buttery skills on the gnarliest of street and park rails. If you’re looking for a board to ride the whole mountain, you should look at other snowboards in the range.

Manufacturer's Description:

An early release of our next year’s line was the Sub Zero. It took years of development and testing to build a board that can take your rail riding to the next level. We developed the Gullwing camber that makes your technical street riding easier. It does this by relieving pressure from the contact points so all the control is right between your feet and still provides solid ollie power without a soggy feel. We have also added our drifter base that slightly raises the edges away from the snow right between your feet to make it easier to get through kinks without rail damage. This board will allow you to break through to a never seen before level of riding.

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Year: 2010

Available Lengths (cm):
148, 152, 155, 158

Riding Style:
Freestyle/Park

Specifications:

New Combat Core: engineered wood composite built to take the abuse
Bi-lite Laminates: biaxial fiberglass for effortless turns and a forgiving flex
Dual Degressive Sidecut: Makes landings and takeoffs effortless without sacrificing powerful turns
Hi-def FH Base: our ultra clear base material blend - fast and durable
New Gullwing camber and Drifter base: for the ultimate combination of looseness and control

SB-RV Review

Nitro have well and truly got on the reverse camber band wagon! Not quite a full reverse camber, it is rockered between the bindings and normal from bindings to the tips, much like the Lib Tech Skate Banana; I present to you the Gullwing camber. In my opinion the Sub Zero is the softest board Nitro have made in a long time, super smooth and easy to butter and effortless to chuck around off natural hits and park obstacles, but where it really excels is on rails. Stable whilst running into rails, tons of slow speed pop to get you onto handrails and unbelievably simple to press, the camber between the feet makes sex-changes, tech switch ups and reverts a lot easier. The one issue that I had was that at super high speeds the Sub Zero got really thrown around and bumped all over the place, but you can’t have it all, that’s why it’s so oozy and smooth on rails. It’s definitely a snowboard made for technical rail riding and cruising through the medium line in the park, jibtastic!

Posted by Kev Mills in • Nitro

User Reviews

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Tyler on December 13, 2009 at 03:55 PM

This board is great, I was worried coming from a Ride society it would be too noodly… Not at all I found it rips at high speed and the pop was still enough to do flatground 3’s. I could confidently hit 30 ft jumps as long as i landed flat based, the tips would fold on me if I landed on them. It was super easy to do presses and butter around the mountain but wasn’t quite as catch-free as I expected due to the fact that its got that bit of camber that brings the tips back down to snow level. That said I could definitely feel the dished base and it was so loose and easy to spin around on. Unless you are riding powder, are a euro-carver or doing spins on large jumps I would totally recommend this deck!

Danko on March 19, 2010 at 10:32 PM

very impressed with the deck so far. crazy flex, probably a 3.5 out of 10(stiffest). easy to lock into presses with if you have the balance. most of the flex is in the middle of the board and not the tips. only thing i can compare it to is my Burton Bullet 164 wide. comparing the two this board is crazy light, flexy, and it has a much looser feel to it. im still able to carve down Vermont diamonds pretty wall, probably due to the gullwing camber, but it still doesn’t ride down the groomers as fast or as smooth as the bullet which has a regular camber. the board preforms well in powder because of its flex. its very easy to keep your nose above the powder allowing you to float. it also does moguls pretty well for a snowboard as the flex helps absorb alot of the un-even terrain. the board definately doesn’t have as much pop as the burton bullet, but i was still doin 35 footers just make sure to shift wait forward when you land on ur tail or it will have the tendency to “noodle-out” underneath you. still, its not a hard-charging big-mountain board, i’d go with something with more stifness and a regular camber for that.