This board is keen,  Thursday, 12 March 2009 it took me months to decide what board to get, once i finally made the purchase i had a bit of dervish envy but after riding both my brothers dervish and my vanguard a little more extensivly i am sure that i made the right choice. at first i was a bit worried about getting flex one because i weigh just under 175 but it was the perfect choice,(so for those of you who are on the fence on flexes i would suggest flex one) also people say the vanguard is bad for down hill and granted its no evo but this baby is just great up to the high thirtys and it didn't seem like it was reaching its peak i just finished the hill. buy this board