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So size of clamp matters which is why you may be surprised by the measurement but idk if thats the case. I personally don't go by CPM's at all I pretty much ignore it now. With today's shafts using better materials and designs a lot of the old thought goes out the window like CPM's and Torque. 4-5 torque used to be insane, but consider that the material/design handles squaring up the club face at impact so much better now it has allowed brands to produce shafts that feel better, kick harder, and allow faster tempos and swing speeds to use a higher torque or lighter weight. CPM's also doesn't apply evenly to tempo and transition speed and thats the main reason I toss it. Some customers need say 270cpm or around that for whatever shaft they play as a requirement when truth is that in my opinion is not a good way to figure out the shaft. Go by the shafts profile, is your swing is aggressive/fast in tempo and or transition and you have trouble squaring up the face if your timing is off then go with a more tip stiff shaft, if your concerned about feel consider a shaft with a softer butt. Kick point is another one, the difference between high and low kick is just a couple of inches and now many brands are starting to do designs that act as almost multiple kick points some even going up to four which is hard to design but you see it in uniflex shafts and it works really great for some i.e Fuji air and ryoma beyond power etc.. So in short, CPM's imo is not the way to determine which shaft or flex you should play. your launch, spin rates, carry/roll and overall distance is best way to measure.

Just for fun I'd love a Vice black ball with a red seven logo on it for alignment. I gotta say there is absolutely no doubt from a design, manufacturing, and technology standpoint that Titleist, Bridgestone, Callaway, and Srixon make the best balls in the world this is based on hard numbers from the world's 2 biggest factories. Now between those 4 brands it's about selecting the ball that is best for your swing/spin/trajectory/course conditions and weather. Ya it's not very fun or cool because these are not new boutique brands but it's known as fact from what I have seen and have had explained to me. This Taiwan factory who is getting everyone in trouble by infringing on Titleist's patients has caused a big mess and because they didn't do their due diligence some brands are going under, others will get stomped in court and that includes Vice unfortunately. For most it's very hard to tell what a good ball is there is a level of consistency with ball striking and skills required to really split what is the ball vs what is the club or swing or day, I personally am not at this level either and I won't say any brand names but some of the cheapest made worse performing Chinese balls have gotten rave reviews on this site, and many of the big USDM websites and from an insider perspective it leaves me scratching my head. Good balls do make a big big difference at any level but knowing what performance is coming from the ball, vs the swing, vs the club is not an easy thing to do. Same as testing clubs and shafts, for a while I would shaft, hit & review in 1 round on my own I could do a review a day but it's not the way to go as the next round was totally different or a few rounds later. I've realized It's an average of good & bad days over time and allowing others to hit it then changing the shaft and trying again and looking for a general theme. This game is nuts and this very same thing relates to why many of us buy and sell clubs so frequently one of the most common things I see is not giving a new club enough time, the second is not really breaking down the WHY it's doing what it does for us, then the shaft and build. I see some buy a driver with a shaft it doesn't work in 1-2 rounds so it's off to the B/S/T where as IFthey gave it time, tinkered and took a more analytical approach to it they may find its a great club, sometimes if I want to love a club and I end up not being able to hit it I see my coach on the LM to find out why. This is a $$$ saver too because understand what works or doesn't work makes our next purchase better thought out.

If you like great feeling, good looking, players woods then yes, if you want a forgiving easy high launching distance bomber I'd look at others. XV FW is still one of the best players fairways around and at this price it's an easy try.

S2 is the softer of the S flexes. GT Type-S is indeed much more player than the XT.

I don't think we have sold enough to find an overlap. I've looked at every design for our customers and none look the same so far.

Gotta pass along the savings! We make very little from this but I knew you guys would love the deals so here we go! In regards to the Fairway woods, yes that is the price for 2pcs! $300 Shipping is $40 worldwide per club + 10 each additional club. Stock is limited! These deals are too hot to miss! EMAIL ONLY: [email protected] ( No PM's Please )

Gotta pass along the savings! We make very little from this but I knew you guys would love the deals so here we go! In regards to the Fairway woods, yes that is the price for 2pcs! $300 Shipping is $40 worldwide per club + 10 each additional club. Stock is limited! These deals are too hot to miss! EMAIL ONLY: [email protected] ( No PM's Please )

shaft sanding belt and digital caliper is what most use.

They make adjustments to the designs based on your fitting + head choice so no it's not like going anywhere else. the shaft is made for you per order 1 by 1. The 50 has become closer to 60 designs recently but those designs are adjusted its that there is basically now 50-60 base designs they choose from. It's really hard to explain this on a technical level as you can't just design a new shaft from scratch without investing tens of thousands of dollars into R&D for 1 shaft but bottom line is they take one of the design profiles that fit you and make adjustments around that and these are not light adjustments they relate to everything and require software to adjust the numbers within boundries of performance. Keep in mind 7D is owned by Super Resin, no one can do what they do not Mitsubishi not NASA not Tesla, no one! these are the guys that produce the highest grade carbon and CFRP's for many of the worlds most advanced satellites in space and many of the F1 cars and produce revolutionary medical tech I watch tons of shaft brands simply contact a factory ask for material options, angle the weaves differently use differnt layers and combos to produce a shaft then charge top dollar. imo not the way to go. On the high end you want a company that actually has a factory and handrolls their own shafts i.e Crazy or TRPX or Quadra.. At the pinnicle there is only 7D who does it all in house to the highest standard. for more info: http://www.sevendreamers.com/about.html

I'm playing Crazy's new carbon stepped patented shaft called STP, I'm playing it in 85g in stiff and its super straight with a nice higher trajectory. Testing against the Japan version C-Taper 95 both are great shafts.

7D doesn't recommend a head at all, they are a shaft company and it's hard enough for them to get past all the customers theories about heads, fitting, and performance so they use a firm technical process with the final step being a master fitters/engineers opinion combined with that data. They need to know the head in order to design the shaft first. They don't suggest pulling a shaft from one head and putting into another, they say performance will not be as good. For those who own a 7D shaft in their owners book it has all the measurements, depths, cg locations of the head you have, they don't depend on the OEM to get these measurements they re-measure them to their own standard. I will post a pic from my booklet soon. The Matrix vs Haute question is: does being fit in person equal a better performing 7D shaft? I can't say that it does yet, so far our only negative feedback has come from a Haute fitting and the customers complaint was I only gained 10yds but it's much straighter now and I wanted 20yds...lol Also what I'm finding is 7D shafts for players like myself who impart tons of spin on the ball and lose the most strokes using drivers & 3 woods can drop that handicap and the few customers who have purchased a 7D for their 3 woods are reporting similar results as the driver, very straight with great feel and fewer shots dropped in hazards. Now I just need to select a head because I could really use "very straight" on my 3 woods. - RomaRo Alpha - Jbeam Glorious - A-Grind 14*

I'd say try a different shaft, tipping will tighten it up slightly but not cure hooks. things to consider: - is the heavier weight on the heel side? by putting it on toe side this may help. - What driver setups don't hook for you that you hit side by side with the ZY-11? Basically you should see that the ZY-11 has very little side spin which keeps things straighter for sure but there is something either swing/shaft/setup or all of the above that's causing you to hook it. email me with details if u need to figure this out.

No custom options on this one yet which is strange for K.Works so for now we are stuck with standard specs and a gold finish.

2 Drivers have taken the lime light recently and both are made by J-Beam, this all started during my fitting at Seven Dreamers where I asked what clients heads do they see the best performance during their in depth analysis and the lead engeneer blurted Jbeam 435 & 535... Not sure if he wanted to let that out but the answer came quick so I'll take it! Why is it important who this man thinks produces a good driver? Because his job is analyzing heads and designing shafts to work together and at his place of work he gets to see the absolute best clubs money can buy. First things first let's acknowledge it's shape, it's very much triangular in an upside down sort of way which makes its face super deep which is ideal for better players who miss high and low on the club face vs out near the toe and heel for me the face shape allowed for lots of space to land the ball on and while this shape is not traditional by any means the rest of the club head especially from above looks like a normal driver. The laser-engraved face milling further reduces spin, this driver is considered low spin/high launch but for me and just about everyone else who hits it the general consensus is that it is mid launch Important to note that this driver head is fully foamed from the factory, what is foamed? It's basically a material baked into the head to mute the sound and dampen louder hollow feel it's an aquired taste most often prized by those who miss wood heads or love the way sub 400cc drivers sound and feel at impact, it's a very dead muted "thwack" or "tick" sound but very unique and in my opinion necessary as I could only imagine how loud and hollow this head would be without the foam inside. my personal ZY-11 which I have in with a custom ordered 0.5* closed face angle to help me avoid the right side, as you can see it's shafted with a Seven Dreamers Matrix Shaft which is absolutely sublime and I can't imagine another shaft in this head ever as it's a match made in heaven but anyway as you can see looking down on this head it looks like most other drivers very hard to tell how deep it's face really is. Weights are located 2 in the front and one far in the back, I love Jbeam heads not only for their adjustability in specs as TSG can custom order you special lofts, head weights and face angles but also because we also offer the wrench and weight kit so you can tinker with it yourself to achieve optimal flight and balance or even bias Feel - Foamed, Dead, Mute, Thwack, Tick, not loud, not hollow at all, feels like a head that is sub 400cc with a hint of persimmon thanks to the factory foam job. Distance - Very Long, this is a big deal on the Draco circut which is Japan's long driver series and the ZY-11 is a popular high end choice, plenty of roll and carry with this head and if built right for your swing profile expect some of your longest drives evern. Forgiveness - Very Forgiving especially high and low on the club face, sweet spot must be huge with it's large face profile even toe and heel shots are somewhat forgiving. Spin - Very low spin Trajectory - I would say medium of course shaft plays a big part in it and Jbeam confirms this is high launch compared to the blackout 435 our customers feel it's got a low trajectory so split the difference it's mid trajectory, I'm getting 14* launch personally Dispersion - Very Straight, ball has a hard time turning over left or right so it's an absolute fairway finder unless you put a bad swing on it or have an improper build going on. My bottom line with this club is it's one of the longest I've ever hit and the absolute straightest I've hit and I've tried 4 different shafts already the Basileus AAA 50R, AAA 60Stiff, TRPX Aura Stiff, TRPX Air SX, 2 types of 7D "Distance" shafts and all of them did pretty much the same thing super straight and long only the TRPX air traded some roll out for a higher launch and more carry. I've hit 9.5, 10, and 10.5 and it appears I get the best distance, launch, spin rates from the 9.5* I've had this driver side by side with many other drivers some even sporting the same shaft such as the Blackout 435 the only other driver I would rank as high as the ZY-11. Hard to see but in the above image there are two small gaps behind the silver face area, very interesting detail that I'm curious about, It's on all of them and is supposed to be there but I've never seen this sort of thing in another driver before. Below my coveted Seven Dreamers Distance Shaft! Hope you enjoyed the review you can view the ZY-11 and Blackout 435 in the TSG ProShop!

I have the Nud here, paint seems to be always an issue with Baldo. I will shoot pics. I have just emailed Docus to send everything over to trial, they should thank you for this :) Keep in mind every driver sounds/feels different even with the same face material. Take Jbeam for example all DAT55G/Special Mix and each one has different nuances.

My friend started and owns Docus, I told him we would wait a and see before offering the brand. Still unsure if we want to carry it, rating gate is not exactly a reliable source imo they don't hit everything good heads & shafts and the brands that kiss their ass and send free heads tend to go up on that list. As far as 15-3-3-3, we can't expect the same material to feel the same as the design plays a big role. My suggestion is find something with DAT55G have you considered Grandista or Nud Ghibli? I've got both and the Grandista while funky performs well.

But man these shafts are beautiful! Nothing like it, all business no paint or anything wasted.

haha yes I just got an email from them today to confirm this was indeed your head:

Haute Couture & Matrix are the same shafts it's just one is done by fitting the other by questions. Once you have a Haute Fitting Done you can just order Matrix shafts based on that fitting.

We're making the bump even bigger for V2!

I would say closer to the PRGR Tour Nabla's but yes ONOFF Kuro has trail/lead edge relief.

SEVEN - Every time the brand "Seven" produces a new model many true protos and test samples must be made, we experiment with different grinds, finishes, specs, and anything else we think is needed. Today we pay homage to one of our most special sets of True-Protos and while may look similar to the first version of the cavity blade I would consider it's DNA version 1.5. The original CB features blade like specifications to face progression (offset) to top line thickness which is in the 4mm range. This prototype was designed to bring it a little more forgiveness while finding out how these changes effect feel during impact. Above the v1.5 prototype and below the original release 7CB which we would call v1.0 - As you can see the first major difference is the slightly larger and sharper bump inside the cavity incorporated into the new prototype, the next difference is in shape and size we enlarged the top line by .25mm which allowed us to up perimeter weighting a very little bit, this allowed the sole to be just a quarter of a mm thicker as well. The finish on the original seven cavity blade is also different it's a darker look while on the V1.5 prototype we tested a factory that uses a brighter higher gloss NiCr Satin and while it's hard to tell the exact difference through these photos we like this one a lot as well. Below the face shape of the V1.5 it's close to perfection and just easy on the eyes, closer to tear drop than boxed. Below the top line and view from address, near-zero offset, top-line still very thin by players cavity back standards, the neck transition is all business with no weird curves and while its packing a touch more forgiveness than our original it still appears very compact for the better ball striker, very athlete. Below the sole, only a fraction larger than our current Seven CB with the translucent red fill on this bright high lustre satin finish it looks outstanding, We really feel this sole grind provides the best all around performance for everyone, it's killed leading edge and subtle trailing edge grind combined with just enough thickness to give out enough in wet/soft conditions yet in firmer locations this is where a players iron like this excels. Lastly notice the word SEVEN is gone and the only symbol is our logo out on the toe, this is something simple and small that purists tend to appreciate an iron without all the model, series, brand, etc.. stamped on it, it gets silly now days so enough's enough with the stampings as here is all you need to know about SEVEN, It's made 100% in Japan and we spare no expense to use the best factories, grinders, finishing house, JIS Materials, and Designs. Only 2 sets were produced, one to hit and the other for photos. Seven has been back ordered for about 1-2 months now so a good client has made off with the only brand new set of heads in existence, congrats to you sir on your new set, treat them well as they are a part of the history of Seven as this is rough design we based the next generation V2 cavity blades on.

Go with shaft first, higher loft will increase spin which may not be such a bad thing in this particular head but imo TRPX Air is absolutely berserk in the ZY-11 head.

Both waccine and AAA launch on the lower side, I would say something like the TRPX Air would be a beast in the ZY-11 head

Yes F2 is back in!