Has anyone skied on “Snowflex”?

Norwich has one of it's slopes and it's quarterpipe covered in snowflex, it's very forgiving for beginners. It's slower than traditional dryslope surface. It doesn't take an edge as well so you have to ski quite aggresively. The only thing I've found it good for is practicing foot turning and little bouncy powder turns.
I don't particually like the stuff.
If you learn on snowflex, just be careful when you first get on snow because it's going to be a lot quicker. On the plus side, if you're turning on snowflex you'll master turns on snow really quickly.

I'm not a beginner (sorry if I gave that impression!) I'm happy on just about anything red and the occasional black and thinking that January is way too long a time to wait for a 'snow' fix!! :(