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  1. Glad to see everyone off and running with this test! I have had Star Grips for a long time now, going on year three and round 200-plus with my current set of undersized black grips that are built up back to a "standard" size with one piece of blue painter's tape plus one extra piece under my lower hand. Looking forward to reading more comments as you all get further along.
  2. Thanks! It's been a relief to see my speed come back. When I started after the New Year I was down around 100 or lower with 195 grams. I actually think taking the time off was good for me as a mental reset, but I'm really enjoying the Cruiser program and the flexibility it provides. Once the range is open more often than it is closed (hopefully another two weeks), I'm planning on getting back onto a program.
  3. I've been going pretty hard at the The Stack recently after listening to several different podcasts with Sasho. My motivation waned quite a bit over winter, but with the weather turning and a little bit of progress in the past month or so I've been focused on not missing workouts and putting in the work. I think last night either equals or bests my personal record from last winter. I have this (probably stupid) goal of a 100 MPH 8 iron by the start of the 2025 golf season. If I could keep things linear, I believe that would transfer to about 125 MPH with the driver. To be clear, I'm a long, long ways from that at the moment but it's something to shoot for. Last year I hit 99 MPH on Trackman with a 6 iron so even if I got back to that speed I'd still need about 5 more MPH before I hit my goal.
  4. Windy, but productive range session today. Nice feel for me lately is to feel my knees squeezing a ball in the backswing. Really keeps me centered. Combined it with feeling my spine tilt stay consistent and I hit some really good shots. Wet and cold for a few days again but hopefully Friday I'll be back out there. Can't wait for it to become consistently nice enough to be out there everyday.
  5. Something in glossy black would keep the blacked-out theme while adding a touch of visual interest on the sole. I need to see this. I've had good luck with simple black nail polish followed by some acetone to clean up anything that spills over once it dries.
  6. Range opened! Really productive couple of buckets this season already. Working on my balance has helped tremendously in reducing my left miss. After such a frustrating year last year dealing with low/left constantly, it's been a huge relief. Balance wise, it has to feel like I don't turn my hips at all. If I try to turn my hips, I slide my hip backward to start my backswing and that leads to a whole lot of bad things. A second change I've made, after spending a lot of time working on setup, is moving my front foot more forward outside of my hip socket. I naturally favor my right side, so much so that my natural standing posture and golf stance resulted in my left foot being located directly beneath of or even inside of my left hip socket. That meant during my backswing I had no where for my hips to go but backward, and in the downswing I couldn't really post up at all. Nice change that has me striking it better and also hitting the ball much higher now that I'm not sliding into the ball. Think it's going to be cold/rainy for a bit now, but nice to get out and see lots of ball flight.
  7. Bought my range membership yesterday. Still at least a week or two out from it opening, but that put me in a good mood for my garage session last night. Found a few nice things to work on in regards to balance and swing path. I have been going back and watching old lesson videos from the past few years and making sure I'm getting those checkpoints taken care of. Last night I really focused on staying more centered in the swing (60-60-100 drill) and feeling a "cup" in my lead wrist throughout the swing. I have a tendency to add way too much wrist flexion throughout my swing which can get me hitting low draws/hooks if my timing is not good. Finished up by focusing on maintaining my spine angle in the downswing (tend to drop my rear shoulder and spin out). Last couple of balls were mashed, I had to keep hitting until I fully split the ball... I haven't hit as much this winter so I think this is only my second cracked ball of the offseason. But it's been good to pace myself - my ailing lead wrist has basically fully recovered and I can now hit balls and lift weights with no pain for the first time in a long time.
  8. Yeah, it's so cool when you see something work like that. I had a very similar experience with speed training and just general fitness. Went from like 84 MPH 7 iron to mid-90s over a couple of years. Game changer for sure.
  9. Nail. On. The. Head. Even though this offseason has resulted in less success than the past, a "normal" swing vs. an "all out" swing really isn't all that different anymore.
  10. Sounds to me like the Diamond is very similar to the original MTB-X then. I have often thought the Diamond might be a very good fit for me.
  11. I've got eight dozen sitting ready to go: 1 Dozen Yellow Snell MTB-X (Last box from 2021 purchase!) 1 Dozen Lime Vice Pro Plus 2 Dozen Yellow Srixon ZStar XV 4 Dozen Yellow Maxfli Tour X The Snell is still my favorite ball, though the XV comes close. I think the XV is the longest ball I've ever played, but I prefer the Snell on short game shots around the greens. I really enjoyed the original Tour X, these second generation ones were a Black Friday impulse purchase, hopefully they are as good as the original. Not sure I love the Lime color of the Pro Plus (too much green and not enough yellow), but I'll probably give them a go early in the season while the ground is still more brown than green.
  12. Yeah, that's probably the route I need to go. And I need to bring it with me to the range. Last summer I tried to do it at home at night but other priorities always came up. If I take it on my lunch breaks to the range it will get done.
  13. After a lot of starts and stops, I completed the last session of Foundation last night (took 84 days... lol). This is my second offseason with the Stack. For a lot of reasons I just didn't put the same level of commitment into training/practice this offseason. Excuses aside, I was very happy to see the trend over my last several sessions: If I go off of where I was last winter at this time, I'm still trailing my top speed slightly. But my swing mechanics have been progressing alongside my training. I'm seeing more shots like this which is about as good as I can hit a 6 iron: I really need to make an effort to continue my Stack training during the season. I think given warmer weather I could really set some PRs.
  14. Made my way up to the heated range on Saturday morning just to see some non-computer generated ball flight for the first time since October. I started off really strong but fell back into some bad habits by the end - I was tired as I haven't hit that many balls this winter. Really been digging into my setup more as it relates to balance throughout the swing. Have made a couple of pretty interesting observations about what things I need to tweak in order to get where I need to be. Actually excited to get outside in a month or so and see what progress I may have made this offseason.
  15. Love WITBs with the "whys?" and "hows?" Thanks for doing this. I need to get mine up-to-date sometime soon.
  16. I bought my Mevo+ in June 2021. The battery life has definitely decreased, but I still can get over an hour on the internal battery without sleep mode turned on. I use an external power bank if I want to go longer than that. I believe the internal battery is easily replaceable if you are willing to pull the unit apart, although I think you can also have it serviced by FlightScope support.
  17. Thanks. I also checked that is is happening across multiple devices. So unfortunately probably some fringe case with my account hitting a bug in the code causing the 500 internal server error... since it seems to be working for others.
  18. I recently noticed that the notifications system seems to be broken. I see a number indicating I have new notifications, but if I select the drop down menu I get a spinning wheel and the notifications list never loads. If I select "View all notifications" I get an HTTP 500 server error. Tested both on home wifi and Verizon 5G, in both normal and incognito mode trying to be sure to rule out anything client side. I did see an initial modal pop-up for the last notification I received, so it does appear that the notifications are partly functioning.
  19. My Hogan PTx Pro's have the V-sole as well. I'd be hard pressed to go back to anything else. I got along great with the ZX7s in my last fitting, too!
  20. Nice value add for some customers, sure. Others are going to go in, choose their flex and walk out. My mother-in-law plays the iron-wood line from a few years ago. I helped her choose them. We grabbed a bunch of similar-styled irons in the lightest flex possible and had her hit a handful of balls. We walked out with the 5, 7, and 9 irons since at her swing speed they gapped about 15 yards every 2 clubs. Would she benefit from a custom fitting? Absolutely not. Of the smaller brands, I think Tour Edge in particular makes some very nice clubs. But I also can't help but wonder if the year-after-year new release model they have isn't all that sustainable? They're almost as bad as TaylorMade and Cobra with the release cycles.
  21. I think for this scenario it's also helpful to get as much flight as you can get. 13' minimum. Which used to be the "indoor" setting before they consolidated the "short indoor" and regular indoor modes. I've been seeing better spin with my 6 iron lately, I'm not sure what has changed. I have not hit driver since last winter.
  22. Don't mind the couch - I've lost my hitting space at the moment (without moving a bunch of stuff), but can still hit wedges without a radar. Swing is feeling good. I've found a few keys that have allowed me to be better in balance. That balance has translated into better contact and more speed. My lackluster attempt at getting into a Stack System routine is still positive as I've reached the speeds I was at last winter after coming into this offseason 4 MPH slow. We've had a warm streak in Michigan here after a bunch of snow. Starting to get the itch! Really hoping for an early and dry spring this year. I still need to do some minor club work and regrip a few clubs. I'll check my loft/lies also at that time. But otherwise no major change in the bag this offseason, which is a first for me!
  23. That was my understanding as well. Either the Mevo+ needs to be level with the hitting surface with no valley between, or it needs to be on the ground with the mat height set in the settings (which for me persists across sessions in the app). I've always wondered about the mat height setting - one of the other things I find unique to the Mevo+ is that my AoA with irons is more steep than it is reported on other monitors. I assume the mat height has something to do with that calculation.
  24. Yeah, I've been using the Matzilla this year and that's when I started seeing the spin issues. Next time out I'll try the FlightDeck again. I probably should also get a fresh RCT as I tend to literally wear the dimples off them before switching. For what it's worth, I have roughly 13' of flight and 8' ball to Mevo+. It sits on the concrete below the level of my Matzilla.
  25. Finally caught up on this. Great read so far. Regarding distance ... in the 2+ years I've had the Mevo+ I've found it to be the most conservative of any indoor launch monitor I've been on. Irons tend to be the most similar to others (versus say a Trackman), but it definitely has always seemed a bit short with longer clubs. My personal opinion is also that once you get past 140 MPH ball speed with any club it begins to struggle a little if your conditions are not ideal. @GolfSpy_BNG did support say anything about the metal on the walls in the shop? I know the simulator forums say a metal garage door should not effect the radar signal, but perhaps there's some interference from the walls? Also, how are you liking the Matzilla? I've used it as my stance mat the past couple of winters but switched to using it full time this winter for balls, too. I previously used the Fiberbuilt FlightDeck. I like the Matzilla, and it seems to be OK on the joints. I have noticed lately with the Mevo+ that spin seems a bit excessive for me. I'm usually a lower spin player, and while I'm definitely getting more neutral than in the past and playing the ProV1x RCT, I was seeing 6 irons with a slightly closed face-to-path ratio still spinning over 6000 RPM yesterday. Not sure if that's the Matzilla vs FlightDeck or just the latest firmware of the Mevo+.
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