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On May 19th a box of golf club shafts was delivered to the post office to be shipped to me using Priority Mail, which according to the post office is 2-3 days shipping time. Today is May 31th and here is the latest info I have from the post office via email this morning. May 31, 2022, 11:17 am Arrived at USPS Regional Origin Facility AUGUSTA GA DISTRIBUTION CENTER Your item arrived at our AUGUSTA GA DISTRIBUTION CENTER origin facility on May 31, 2022 at 11:17 am. The item is currently in transit to the destination. May 26, 2022, 9:02 am Arrived at USPS Facility AIKEN, SC 29803 May 26, 2022, 5:02 am Arrived at Post Office AIKEN, SC 29803 May 25, 2022, 11:16 pm Arrived at USPS Regional Origin Facility AUGUSTA GA DISTRIBUTION CENTER May 23, 2022 In Transit to Next Facility May 19, 2022, 5:14 pm Departed Post Office NEW ELLENTON, SC 29809 May 19, 2022, 11:14 am USPS in possession of item NEW ELLENTON, SC 29809 May 19, 2022 Pre-Shipment Info Sent to USPS, USPS Awaiting Item As you can see from this info the box went from NEW ELLENTON S.C. to AUGUSTA GA. in a time of SIX days. Then it went back to Aiken S.C. and then Back to AUGUSTA GA. in another SIX days. According to Google Maps, it's only 18 miles from AUGUSTA to AIKEN. which means it took 6 days to travel a big fat 18 miles. TWICE, I live in Colorado which is close to 1800 miles from S.C. At this rate it could take years to get to me and I could well be dead by then. Is this the furure of the Post Office? Is this what customers can expect to get when they use 2-3 day Priroity Mail service from the post office? Is this what we as customers have to look forward to? I sure hope not.

I just went to the Swing plate site and found out the "Price" for one of those force plates. NOT in my budget this year for sure. My car didn't cost as much as what they want for these plates.

Thank you for the link cnosil. Great video explaining the ideas of moving the body in different directions. I can clearly see how this would help to create speed in the swing, but I can also see how it could cause some major problems in consistency. There are all kinds of ways this movement could be a problem as it all has to happen at the right time in the swing. It explains why so many long hitters can hit the ball long, but it also explains why they can have a really bad day if their timing or sequence is off just a small amount. I wonder how long it would take a good golfer to get the timing right and be consistent with said timing? One thing I will say is that watching this video makes me want to have one of those weight/balance plates to stand on to see how I weight my feet during the swing.

Good morning Wildthing. I think the answer to your question is rather simple if you look at the "BODY" of the golfer as "Mass". When the body of mass is moving toward the target, that body of mass has momentum. and that added momentum is attached to the golf club via the hands. So the simple answer is that this added momentum increases the "Total" amount of energy that the golfer can apply to the back of the golf ball at impact. It's the same thing you see in baseball when a hitting takes a step toward the pttcher as he starts to swing the bat. His body mass adds energy to his swing and he can hit the ball farther using this step toward the pitcher and the ball. I hope this makes sense to you the same way it makes sense to me. Let me know what you think of what I just posted.

I watched the Mark Crossfield video and didn't learn a thing. Then I watched a second one where he was taking a lesson from Mark Bull, and it that video I learned what Mark Bull was having Crossfield doing, And that was when I learned HOW Crossfield had changed his swing and how he had increased his swing speed. The second video was well worth the time and I will be watching more of Mr. Bulls videos in the future to see what I can learn from him and with any luck I can use his instruction and add a few more MPH's to my swing speed soon. I would love to get my 105-108 MPH up to over 110 on a steady basis and enjoy the added distance off the tee. I've been up over 120 a few times but it was only a FEW times so learning how to do it on command would be great way to kick off a new golf season this spring.

Hi Mynerds: If you normally shoot around 61 or 62 for 9 holes and par is 35, than your handicap is between 47 and 50 for 18 holes. Thank you for letting me know why you had 25 when you knew it wasn't correct. Now it makes sense why you did what you did. As to getting a fitting and new clubs, i would highly recommend that you do NOT worry about a fitting or new clubs until you take at least ONE lesson and get more range time under your belt. Reason I say this is that when you take a lesson, you will be making some changes in your setup and stance, and those changes will mean your fitting will NO LONGER be correct for YOU. When you make those changes everything will be different and you would need a NEW fitting to have a good idea of what would fit you. So WAIT awhile and get fit later and not now. Any good instructor will tell you the same thing. WAIT and do the fitting AFTER you take a lesson or two and then see about getting a fitting for your new swing.

You claim you shot a 61 and then a 62 on a par 35 nine hole course. That means you shot 123 for 18 holes with a par of 70. That equals 53 over par, so how do you come up with a 25 handicap? Handicaps are based on 18 hole scores, and you are shooting more than 26 over par on only 9 holes. Please redo your math and let us know what you come up with.

I just watched the 16 minute video by Dr. Sasho Mackenzie and while I think i understood what he was saying I'm pretty sure I did NOT learn anything that I can take to the driving range to use to gain any clubhead speed. The Dr. provided lots of science but I'm not sure he provided any helpful infomation on HOW to swing the clubhead faster. I also have to ask YOU golfer here if you have ever "Pushed" UP with your right hand during the down swng? Pushing up with the right hand is what he is telling us that we all do and this pushing up is what causes the clubhead to go up. I'm pretty sure I have NEVER pushed up with my right hand when I swing the club. Mostly my right hand just goes along for the ride. Is there something that I missed watching his video? Could it be that when the left hand pulls down and the right hand stays at the same level, the left hand pulling down causes the head of the club to go up as the club pivots around the point between the two hands? That would be my bet. Has anyone here gained any knowledge about how the forces work in the swing that you can take to the range to use? I'm pretty sure I have not.

After watching the video. I have to wonder what the results would have been IF he had hit all of those shots off a short tee, like most of us do when playing a Par 3. Would he then get new data that was much closer indoors and out? My guess would be he would. It could also be said that the main reason for his numbers being different is that Mark is NOT that GOOD at hitting his irons off the grass. Pretty good off of a "Mat" but not so good off of grass. Could that be the "REAL" issue here?

Graman 780 in S flex. I put it in an old Cleveland Launcher 460 Comp and It's been in my bag for over 15 years now. I use it every time I go to a demo day and I have never found a new driver with an OEM shaft that could do as well as what my old 460 Comp would do with that 780 Graman shaft. Even the Demo tech reps all told me to stick with what I have.

This is really a "Trick" question guys. IF you look at the head, sure it will affect things a lot If you change the loft. But what about when you compare different heads of the "Same" loft? Will the head have that much affect on the results then? I'd be willing to bet that a different shaft can have just as much affect of ball flight as the head if you keep the loft the same and just try a different head by the different OEM's out there.

Could be your posture at address and where your weight is in your feet. IF you have too much weight on your toes, you could be getting pulled "downward" when you swing your wedges due to centrifugal force pulling your shoulder down and that would explain your wedge being too low and going under the ball, Check to see IF your weight is on your toes, or more toward the "Ball" of your foot. That might be all if is in this case. Check it out and see. I used to do this, having my weight on my toes, until someond pointed it out to me and once I corrected my weight issue hitting fat or sliding the head under the ball was no longer an issue. That was about 10 years ago. and it has not come back since. Good luck with this.

I believe I heard it said a few times that golf is as much a mental game as it is a game of skill. I would have to say your experience is proof of that statement. Funny how th mind works at times.

I happen to like a higher swing weight for my wedges. The main reason I prefer a higher swing weight in my wedges is that I play more less than full swing shots with my wedges than I do with my irons. And when I play less than full swing shots with my wedges, It's rather common for me to choke down on the club to play those shots. And as has been stated here a few days ago. when the shaft gets shorter, as when I choke down on the grip. the swing weight goes down. For this reason, I like to add some weight to the inside of the shaft at the hosel end to bring the swing weight up so that when I choke down on the grip. I have a wedge that "Feels" about the same as all of my other irons in my bag. The extra weight in the tip end of the shaft also helps the club "cut" through the sand in a bunker or the tall grass of the rough when I play those less than full swing shots. You might be surprised how much an extra 20 grams of weight added to the hosel of my sand wedge helps me to get the ball up and out of the sand a whole lot better than a standard weight head would. Same for my Lob wedge when I play a "flop" shot from the rough around the greens.

Aand maybe if YOU would stop criticizing everything I post, i might change me mind and decide there are a few decent people that visit this site. As it is, all I see when I come here is the negative comments that are being posted to every thread I have started. Not at all friendly or congenial. More like hostel.

It would seem that your experience on this site have the exact opposite of what I have found here. Pretty much every time I try to say anything, I get attacked withing minure from half a dozen people if not more. NO one here treats me friendly, they just want to argue and say that i'm worng or that my data from my testing doen't mean anything as it's only me, and I don't count. If i was to do the math, I'd have to say that about 95% of the replies to what I post is Negative and dis-respectful of my facts or data. I don't see that as being freindly in the least. I came to this site to pass on what I've learned over the last 20 years playing golf and working on golf clubs, but all I get is people wanting to tell me i'm wrong or my test results don't count. Just now worth the effort to educate the golfers on this site if all they do is argue and rarely post and data to back up what they post. To be honest, I have better things to do with my time and knowledge base than argue with people just for the sake of arguing.

I agree with you chisag. And it would be nice to GET treated that way as well. Unfortunately just about every time I post any thing on this forum, I get attacked within minute by others here when all I was doing was posting the truth. Maybe if all of the members that continue to attack me would treat me with some respect, I might be willing to be nice to them as well. Nice idea you posted, BUT it will only work if it goes "BOTH WAYS'.

I appreciate you posted what you did. What you just posted is exactly what I posted on swing weight change going from either a lighter shaft to a heavier shaft or the other way around. But when I posted my statement of fact I got attacked from all sides by at least half a dozen people on this site. I'm a bit surprised no one have attacked your post yet. Maybe they will in time. It's only been an hour.

Okay Cnosil. here is your chance to do exact what you asked for.. How about this? Why don't you send me a shaft and I'll do the Spine and FLO alignment of the shaft and if you send me the hosel adppter for your driver. I will install the shaft in the adapter and send it back to you so YOU can do your OWN testing? Are YOU willing to put your money where your mouth is? You show in your bio that you have a Ping G400 driver. That will do for this test. So you know, what I do when installing a shaft sleeve on a shaft, is that I first install the adapter in the head and then install the shaft into the apapter, so I know for a fact that the shaft is installed correctly. This would allow YOU the chance to try a properly FLO aligned shaft in YOUR driver and then allow you to rotate the shaft to a different setting and see what happens in YOUR hands, NOT mine. Is this sometiime you would be willing to do? Put your money where your mouth is? I have a Ping G driver, but NOT a Ping G400, so I'll have to double check to make sure they use the same adapter. If not you would have to send me the head as well to get the shaft installed correctly in the adapter so the shaft is properly FLO aligned in the head for you. Are you up for my challenge? Let me know if you are and we can find out what if fact and what is what others are saying. Up to you. Cost would be $40 for my labor and you pay the shipping both ways if you are up for a challenge. I am pretty sure this was on MGS' lab test list pre COVID and I don't know where it falls on the list anymore. I would personally love to try PURED/flo'd shafts to see if there is any impact or if it is a mental thing as I haven't seen any definitive evidence that it works in all cases

Sorry guy, but when I posted exact same I meant it. Same make and model shaft. Same weight. Same flex. Same loft on the head. They are NON adjustable drivers, so the lie and face angles were as exact as the factory specs allow. Nice try to shoot holes in my test results but you missed the mark on ALL counts. Sorry. Why is it so hard for you and other here to believe that Spine and FLO alignment works? Maybe , Just maybe, If you were to try a properly aligned shaft in a driver you would find out that I'm correct and you could stop dis-agreeing with me on this. DO you own test and then get back to me with YOUR findings. Is that too much to ask of you?

If others choose to not do It because in whatever testing they’ve done they concluded it’s not necessary or the bang for the buck isn’t there, great, more power to them. I see one big problem with what you just posted. DO the golfer DO their OWN testing? Or do they read what others say and go on faith that what they read or hear is true? YOU just posted what YOU believe, and thats fine. But does that make what YOU posted the truth? Or just what you heard or read somewhere?

Botton line here Ricky is that when I aligned the slicing drivers shaft and it went from a slice machine to a stright ball flight machine didn't mean anything to YOU. I took a piece of useless garbage and turned it into a prefectly good driver, and it means "nothing" to you. If that case I know I'm wasting my time with you and anyone that says the same things you do. Sorry I waste your time and mine both, I'll NOT do it again you can be sure.

cnosil. Sorry to post twice in my answer to your qeustion. but I forgot to mention the difference in "Ball Impact" on the club face between a FLO aligned shaft and a non aligned shaft. The difference is quite easy to see when a good golfer is hitting the club. When I hit balls with my driver, I always use Impact Wax on the face of the driver so I know where I'm hitting the ball and when I miss the sweet spot. In both my tests and those of others, the impact area with a FLO aligned shaft is much smaller that with the now aligned shaft. That smaller impact pattern on the face of the club translates of better ball striking and I think most of use here will agree that better ball striking usually means more fairways hit and more consistent ball flight off the tee. Hopefully you can see how better ball striking and a tighter impact pattern on the face of a club is a good thing. I hope I've answered you question now.

IF it was ONLY my test results, then you would have a fair reason to not agree with me. But when it is the test results of every golfer that I have done the shaft alignment work on their clubs that say the same thing, I think that makes a BIG difference. My testing is my testing. But when every other golfer that did their own testing on the course say the exact same thing. I'm going to believe my customers over what some shaft company told you and me and my customers. My customers learned the truty, why can't you?

Here is my reply to your excellent question. I tested a use driver at Golfsmith on their launch monitor. Two drivers in fact. Both drivers were the exact same make and model, same shaft and seme flex. Only difference was one driver was "BEAT UP" and the other was like "NEW". When I hit the beat up driver I got nice straight ball flight just about every time, NOT every time as I"m NOT perfect. Then I hit the LIke New driver and EVERY ball I hit was great big "SLICE: The club was so bad I stated to call it the "Veg-A-Matic, as it could sliece anything put in front of it. The two driver were marked at a decent price, especially the beat up one, so I decide to buy BOTH and do a test to see if my beliefs were correct. When I got home I pulled the shaft from the like new driver and did a 'spine and FLO alignment on the shaft, then re-installed it back into the head and went back to Golfsmith to repeat the drill on the launch monitor. And just as I expected, the Vet-A-Matice was NOT a big slice machine anymore. I was getting the same straight ball flight I was getting with the old beat up driver I tested two days before. My BET is that the beat up driver was beat up because it was a fairway finder and it got HIT A LOT. I'd also bet money that the like new driver looks like new because it was a "Slice Machine, and it never made it into anyone's bag. WAs that a good enough test for you? Two drivers same in every way except one was about worn out and the other was like new. One was a slicer and one was a fairway finder when I purchased them. After I Spine and FLO aligned the slicer shaft it became a fairway finder just like it's cousin. That was just ONE test that I have done on shafts and every time I tested a Spine and FLO aligned shaft I get good results. I only wish I could say the same for clubs that were not Spine and FLO aligned. And this is NOT just MY test results, This is what my customers have been telling me about their clubs AFTER I do the alignment work on their clubs. They ALL tell me the clubs perform much better AFTER the alignment was done, and they tell me it was well worth the money I charge them to do the work. Which was $35 in total if you care to know the cost.