Like I posted in the other elizabeth... thread. I had the elizabeth earlier in the season and just got my pfd and rode them for a week. Let me just say, they are a little stiffer and has more durable sidewall. Elizabeth seemed a little too soft and the sidewall sucked on them. I was riding the mik d's and the PFD back and forth and the pop on the PFD was just as much as the MIK D's and that's saying a lot. It feels like fuken surfing on snow, it was a fuken blast. I ripped thru the snow and full speed and curving them up like a u turn and it was fuken money. Also, they are cheaper and less people have it, what more you want???