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  1. For better players, the toughest shot is the Lowest lofted club off the ground. 3w off the deck for example. Tour players especially, hit their 2nd shots into par 5s the least often with a low lofted wood. Trying to hit it high and far they tend to Tilt back and drop kick them where if it were less less lofted, like a driver on a tee, it wouldn't be so hard, because it's on a tee and not off the ground so you have some room for the low point to be before the ball and hit with an upward aoa. When the ball is on the ground, the low point has to be past the ball otherwise you'll hit it thin or fat . Sung Kang comes to mind https://fb.watch/mvn_WD0KG-/?mibextid=mXAvQF
  2. The weight of the clubhead and the cg of the club head moving in an arc will twist the shaft against the grip bends the shaft in all 3 planes of motion (6DoF). There is some flexing as I posted in my previous post in toe droop and face deflection, but those are not zero, and it's also not significant. The shaft twist is the significant variable from the research. The torsional strength is what regulates the shaft twist. since steel is a homogeneous material, it's properties are only influence by wall thickness, taper, and steps. A graphite composite can have more layers placed, at different angles to reduce this twist. Engineers use composite materials in order to control motion in these three planes, Everything I'm discussing is prior to contact. Once you have first touch, the ball has been given it's orders. I'm concerned on shafts being stable to ensure better impact alignments
  3. Did you watch the video I posted? Those were ~10 foot putts. Euclidean math points out that 1* offline at 10 feet =2.07", the blue shaft in the video twisted in excess of 2*. These aren't things to be skeptical about, i'm just showing the data I captured Re: 'flex' of the shaft - we can measure the shaft in 3 planes of motion. Twist is the only one I find to be significant in putting as the face has the greatest influence on the start line of the ball. The other two directions are measured in millimeters of deflection (face forward ie adding loft) and millimeters of droop (toe down). These two are hugely important in the dynamic loft and dynamic lie angle, however because of the speed of the putter head being swung and cg location to the shaft, putter shafts don't droop or deflect to any significant number. Here are the deflection and droop of two shafts at impact. The black stock, is the blue shaft from above, which is not as stable at impact as the lagp shaft, but it's still not significant in my world as the twist number is. As far as fitting a client to a putter, one has to calibrate to whatever they decide to hold in their hands. The data i've compiled shows that putters that twist less for a player are easier to calibrate to than those that twist more, and players who like their putters the most, have putters with shafts with low twisting results.
  4. Correct. I mention the CT Tour as a specific brand that was manufactured for low shaft twist properties. For clarity, the ones I would stay away from are unbranded smooth steel shafts. The stock stuff. A few examples are the stock steel smooth shafts found in camerons, and pings. There are no tech in those and the data has shown it.
  5. that's a hard and fast unfortunate no. If I could predict shaft data (full swing or otherwise) I'd be calling numbers in Vegas. That said, putter data is showing that these putter shafts that have been introduced in the marketplace over the last ~5 years are effective. Also, measuring the shaft's participation in the swing is quite easy and effective.
  6. Measuring putter shafts has become one of my most fascinating research items to date. Reading some of the commentary here I appreciate everyone's desire (psychosis ) in improving tech. There are only 2 machines designed to measure the shaft in time and space during a swing/stroke - GEARs being the one I have, and fuji's enso the other. I've worked with multiple manufacturers as well as client testing putters where we look at their favorite gamer club, and compare it to their most hated gamer club. In that research the findings showed that there was no correlation to shaft droop or shaft deflection, however there was a massive correlation in the shaft twist parameter. GEARs defines shaft twist as: axial rotation down the golf shaft between the club's grip and club's head. This measurement is reported in degrees and is an angular magnitude. As a note - most will simply refer to this as "shaft torque" as has the entire shaft industry, however, I'll take this moment to point out that torque is an external force that is applied to a body. You can torque a shaft, but a shaft doesnt have torque. Torque is a measurement in Newton meter or Pound feet. Yet the shaft industry tries to say torque is a measurement in degrees. GEARs uses shaft twist and provides that number in degrees. My research showed that there is a direct correlation between how much a player loves their putter to how little the shaft twists. You can take that statement to the bank. The most stable the putter shaft is from start to top of backswing, to impact, the more a player will like that putter. When the shaft twists either clockwise, or counterclockwise, the timing aspect of that putter is not a desirable trait. Now the real question is - what are the best shafts? well, that depends. I have seen some players use a stock smooth non-stepped putter shaft and have little twist, and i've seen the same have massive amounts of twist. The old school - 1980's and prior - ping stepped shafts - when tipped - were some of the most stable I've measured. More current shafts, the Stability, Sack Parente, LAGP, and Accra putter shafts have yet to show any poor results and all seem to be a warranted purchase as they are all very very stable. Steel wise, the KBS CT Tour putter shaft stood out as an excellent choice. Fluted steel shafts are also better than non fluted. Shafts I would stay away from are smooth non stepped steel shafts, stroke lab (low % of good results but there were some), anything that feels 'soft' or 'whippy.' Stepped steel is better than non stepped steel, but still would avoid. Overall stiffness is not direct indicator of stability, but it does serve as a factor. I've attached a link to show how the shaft twist is measured below in comparing two different shafts. The desirable graph is a flat line showing minimal to no axial twist of the shaft as in the gold shaft. Blue shaft is one that is twisting the shaft closed, then opening on the downswing. Very unreliable and difficult to form a consistent feel with. The vertical dotted line on the left is top of the backswing, and the right one is impact. These putts were both swung at 5.20mph chs with grip speed of 1.63mph (gold) and 5.11mph chs with grip speed of 1.60mph (blue). The gold shaft twisted a total of 0.13* while the blue was over 2.00* Always appreciate the conversations here at MGS, hope this can add some color to the discussion.
  7. Highly recommend the Stack & Tilt camp at the JW Marriott in Aventura FL. 2:1 student teacher ratio. Very educational. https://stackandtilt.com/events/stack-tilt-camp-usa-miami-3/
  8. Reposting the usga rules as written as a courtesy. Yes it left a mark.
  9. I'm old enough to remember When the bubble shaft came out, some players did not want to play the club, but TM mandated they all play a copper painted head. I've asked industry engineers if we could see a red faced SIM2 down the road, and they flat out told me you can't pvd red onto a titanium face - so that's out.
  10. As I mentioned earlier, the graphite design booth had some heads, as did the GEARs booth. The GEARs booth head was the one in the reddit photo. Why wouldn't I post it here? or anywhere for that matter - I'm not the guy to be the messenger on this one. I simply wanted to add some color from my observations. I don't have the patience to keep up with posts in public forums. My friend Bill Presse posted the original pic on his fb - i'll post the link below. This driver was treated the best as it was calibrated for use with GEARs - meaning the driver wasnt just thrown around. Bag rattle sans headcover, plastic tees are going to be problematic. The original Japanese Gloire reserve version has a problem with sharpie ink permanently embossing into the face that wouldnt come off even with acetone. That doesnt seem to be the case with this one. https://www.facebook.com/bill.presse/posts/7221563874535473
  11. Correction - YOU don't know how the driver was treated. I on the other hand, took my fingernail, and left a mark in the face. It wasn't my head, now was I planning on sharing any of this info at the time I saw the head at the pga show - never mind posting it here on mgs. I just happened to come across this thread in an email today and thought some of those who weren't there would like to hear some additional data on one person's experience from the actual show. Take my $0.02 for what it's worth. I highly recommend everyone who sees one in person check two things - 1) try to put a mark in the face using your fingernail 2) check the seam between the crown and body for uniformity around the edges. The stealth, and stealth plus (for the 6 heads I've personally seen), have varying degrees of uniformity. Some places the crown is higher than the body, other times the body is higher.
  12. Graphite Design had some as did the GEARs booth on the etc range
  13. I was with the person who took these photos, and have done extensive testing of gears with the stealth. The face does not pass the fingernail test as defined by the usga. Tees leave a mark as does your finger. I have no idea how tm got away with this. Side note. Carbon doesn't spin, so the "jelly" face is adding spin to make the carbon usable as a face material.
  14. Dave - that was my point. Moving the weight up the hosel raises cg without adding deflection, and thus increasing spin via gear effect not deflection related dynamic loft. I don't find adding dynamic loft to be beneficial when you can have the static loft set to whatever you like and get the spin benefits from gear effect. It's just math, so if you're moving the cg back up the blade, it's going to add dynamic loft negating the desired lower launch. Having a higher cg via hosel with the same loft will launch it lower but with more (beneficial) spin via vertical gear effect. Never mind if we're talking lob shots around the greens where you intentionally hit it off the toe, you can have the most gear effect when the hosel is longer. Recall the sand wedges back in the 40's-70's those hosels were looooong. They were impressive around the greens.
  15. I've done a ton of research on cg and it's effects dynamically through the shot. The clubhead's cg location (statically) contributes to it's 3 dimensional effect dynamically. Meaning, because of loft, the higher up the face the cg is the further away from the target the cg is. Talking x-axis (towards or away from flag). the further away the cg is , the more it's going to add loft via shaft deflection coming through impact, negating any static higher cg advantages of the head. GEARs pic attached for reference - you can see on this wedge shot, the face has moved ahead of the shaft's deflection line. The best, or truest way to elevate cg, is to keep it in line with the shaft by lengthening the hosel. The dilemma there of course is you move the cg towards the heel. One example of this is Cobra golf's variable hosel length adjustment from the F7 to F8 one length set. Many wedge companies, have created "reverse muscle" backs where there is a thicker face near the topline to "lower trajectory" and it creates the opposite effect in reality because of these dynamics.
  16. Just got confirmation from TM - getting irons shipped out 9/9. Totally stoked - getting the MC in the 3-6, MB's in the 7-9,PW, and the xft wedges. Project X shafts.
  17. well i was able to stop into a local store that has a foresight launch monitor - btw i think these are awesome monitors - and test out the TM MB's and MC's side by side. Well after plenty of warming up and swings, below are the results of my findings. so who thinks which is which? same shaft, one head is offset and one head is slightly less. Now the shaft did not fit me though it was a rifle project x, it was a flighted version, way to soft 6.5flex and standard length. (i play 7.5 plus 1 inch) so directionally i could care less. All i was looking for was if i lost ball speed with the forged irons and if the new grooves made any significant difference in comparison to my current r7 tp's. important categories - ball speed to clubhead speed launch angle spin rate total height
  18. I saw them yesterday they look good, too big, too offset for my liking. I'm considering a mix set.2-6 MC , 7-pw MB
  19. quick update everyone. Just got word from taylormade that they are going to hook me up with some personal use clubs. random question to anyone, is there a difference in ball speed between my R7 TP irons to the new forged MC or forged MB? I am leaning towards the MB's but want to make sure they'll play similar
  20. yes you would do the spartacus monday wednesday and friday and do 30 mins of low intensity tues/thurs/sat i dont understand this assuming you dont have 30 mins a day 6 days a week to get in shape - you shouldnt expect to get in shape. my advise to those people not looking to get in shape is to eat these and drink plenty of these hell thats what id do
  21. X - I got a feeling that most of the members here would be served well if we could organize a fundraising tournament, coordinated with the pga show timeframe and/or on a local level. with a big demo day event attached to it. just a thought - Michael
  22. for someone starting back into exercise after a layoff the heart and lungs need to be improved so that they can handle the load of more intense weight training down the road. for this reason, Id suggest the weight training progression in my book (hint hint), but if you want a home workout program, to drop body fat and increase endurance - the spartacus one is very good at the hardest of levels. http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/high-intensity-circuit-routine/index.php good luck with that. yes - low intensity cardio burns exclusively fat, and high intensity improves heart and lung function/capacity, but burns more glycogen than fat. it all depends on your goals and where you are in your current level.
  23. I see that your in Germany so forgive me that what your asking may have been lost in translation - but youve given me all that info and all you want to know is what kind of cardio do i recommend??? am i duplicating your question correctly?
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