I am 6'2" and weight about 195.  First things first, I loved this boat.  I paddled it at Five Boat Hole a couple of times and on the New as well.  It was a very easy boat to blunt.  It flat spined effortlessly.  I am not a huge playboater, I am usually in a Pyranha Burn.  I'm not one to always go for a loop and such.  But I did find this boat to be very user friendly and made loops easy.  If I were a beginner interested in learning the hot new moves, this would be the boat I would get.  I even found myself doing some of those moves I don't even know the names of, like the "DNA" move and the "Donkey's ass kick", and the "Wu Tang killer bee watch me, I'm an old dirty bastard" move. The outfitting was good too.  It had the inflatable bulkhead and seat.  I fit it the boat well, and the outfitting was comfortable.  I thought the boat was great for river running, at least for a playboat.  But it excels on big waves and even small holes.  In my opinion, the short new playboats seem only made for the big waves.  They lack when it comes to doing some of the old school moves like cartwheeling.  I liked the Superstar in that it was easy to cartwheel.  I didn't have trouble going past verticle, or loosing control in multiple cartwheels. Overall, a great boat.  I would buy one, and it would be a boat I could keep a couple of years.  Then get a new one.

Nate