About the test environment Have been to hurley at various levels on 2 and 3 gates. At hawaii sur rhone in summer 07... not sure about the level but my profile picture is the occasion i was there. Review Spending most of my time in cornwall during the year studying, i find myself surfing a lot... and although this my be board surfing have had a few occasions to get my thruster out there... consequently i love high speed carving! and boy does this boat deliver! although i cannot myself squeeze into a squashtail, a friend of mine who has one has told me that even though the thruster is undoubtedly slower than the squashtail... it wasn't by very much. i find at hurley this boat performs well as it hardly ever gets flushed off... unless you do something really wrong, and even though you would normally sacrifice bounce for speed, gets loads of bounce as long as you're doing it right! it just takes a little while to get used to controlling its speed on a narrow wave... once you get used...