Well I ran that grate today! I'm coming from a stock grate, and wow it made a huge difference. Before with my d cut rideplate and stock grate I had a hard time not porpoising after I got on plane, and now it gets on plane no problem and I can go WOT and still be hooked up for once! And I definitely notice the better hookup when it comes to small waves, because even with the small ones I'm able to launch right off of them. I feel like I'll be able to finally get some decent height off of a setup wake now. Now I'm actually able to keep my hooker hooked up. I was running a 9/15 hooker with a stock grate...
So far I'm pretty happy with this grate after only an hour, but I've never tried any others. My ski handles completely better! I felt like I lost some MPH, but going WOT and having my ski completely hooked up and sucked to the water and stable at the same time felt amazing.