I am super interested in this stuff. I have heard that they ice skate on this. Should be able to use it for summer setups. This could be a more legit summer ski surface than dry slope carpets. Someone's got to get on some of this with skis on.
Why do you say bad for drop in? It doesn't sound like this stuff is just hard plastic from the description. I'm pretty interested in this stuff for Huck and Splash. If it works, it would solve quite a few problems and it's made in the U.S. so shipping would be less. This is the one that I think looks the most promising: http://www.globalsyntheticice.com/GSIDefault.aspx
so far not too good i tried it out and first thing is i caught and edge really easily and fell then the whole top sheet came off because i glued it so now i will drill it on instead i hope it works.