I have been flying my laser for about 3 months now with the same setup as you (ZDZ 80 and Hitec servos, Futaba radio)

It has been a fantastic flying plane. I have competed in IMAC Intermediate and Advanced with it this year, and I would definitally say that it is capable of flying the Unlimited sequence if your thumbs work well enough!

I built mine completely stock.
I am not a huge 3D flier, but I am working on that, and have recently started bringing things like torque rolls and harriers closer to the ground. I have no problem with the authourity of the tail section, and find it is actually hard to hover the plane with high rate rudder/elevator because they are so sensitive.

Texo - you might try running a 26x10 Menz prop, mine does not rip, but definitely does work a lot better than a Bambula would (my 2 cents at least).

I especially love doing rolling circles with this airplane as it is so smooth with very little control being added.

-- kevod