About myself been playin on boats for about a year and a half, luv it more than seitain About the test environment i have taken this thing from crappy chattahoochee flat water and some of the rapids on there, to the occoee, the gualey and the new river. Review been spun on rocks, flipped, surfed and spun on waves and paddled huge swells on the new and it took every bit of it like a champ Conclusion buy it!