I really like this board, and I'm going to ride the crap out of it until is suffers its an early death like the Burton that it is. Rode it 2 full days at Whister, conditions from foot + of pow to ice to fresh groomed to slushy (it is a big hill). Good things: I find this board to be extremely forgiving when running it flat on cat tracks and the like. I detuned the front end quite a bit after I read about how this board was a bit unforgiving, but it didn't need as much as I gave it. It obeys your commands. Flexing this board in the store I thought for sure it was going to be much harder to "steer" than it was. It was up to me where I wanted the board to go in big moguls, for instance -- carve between em, slam check turns into em, even spin little tight turn on top of em before the ice on their backsides. Trees the same, pow the same. Here is the odd thing: the board turns like described above, but it doesn't try to conform to the terrain when you don't want it too. If you want to force a hard, laid out turn in some uneven terrain, like really throw a hard scrubbing drifty turn on a bank for example, the board doesn't fold up or try to "flatten out" and follow the terrain. It acts like a stiff board in this situation. Drops good -- tail doesn't fold up. Holds an edge pretty good in harder packed steeps. I didn't feel anymore scared than usual when I was trying to scare myself. Nice and light -- you can hop-flick it around easily if necessary. Tough base and hard edges. Maybe it was the wax, but this board felt like it had the fastest base I've ever ridden. In long "flats" I could slowly glide while most other boarders stumped along and skiers poled. Very fun board -- did everything pretty well and felt good doing it. But one negative: Like a few of the other reviewers, I found that the few times I was truly going balls out flying fast the board got a little sketch. Like on a first chair run in untracked powder down shale slope, it was cool for the first three turns, but the fourth, when I was near the bottom and truly hauling ass, the board kinda got speed wobbles. Same thing happened on cruddy blue runs if I tried to keep up with the fastest riders and skiers -- feel a hair too twitchy. And the board was not very damp -- not a real "blast through it" type of board like a Nitro Naturals or something. All in all I like the BMC a lot, I'm going to ride it till one of us dies, and I think it is a great board for all around resort riding. YOU shouldn't worry about the speed wobbles issue -- I'll bet that the 1 percent of riders who can actually consistantly ride fast enough to make this board twitch are good enough that the board doesn't get twitchy, if you get what I'm saying.

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