Posted February 2, 201213 yr comment_175207 I have a RDec Crazy in Regular flex. Plenty long at almost 46 inches. If i trim 1 inch from the tip what would be the flex rating? I have a SS of 102 on average so I know regular flex would be a train wreck. Would 1 inch from the tip get me to a stiff flex?
February 2, 201213 yr comment_175211 err.. Taking an inch will definitely firm it up and lower the flight but you're altering the shaft characteristics and what it is designed to do. Remember this is also a light shaft designed to play longer. At 45 you are likely going to encounter swing weight issues. @102mph ur better off selling and ask Tario to fit you? You could either be an S or SX depending on your transition.
February 2, 201213 yr Author comment_175220 err.. Taking an inch will definitely firm it up and lower the flight but you're altering the shaft characteristics and what it is designed to do. Remember this is also a light shaft designed to play longer. At 45 you are likely going to encounter swing weight issues. @102mph ur better off selling and ask Tario to fit you? You could either be an S or SX depending on your transition. Good to know. Thanks I really want to try the RD in a driver but I was on a radar this morning and I can actually crank it up to 108 now so that shaft would be a train reck waiting to happen.
February 2, 201213 yr comment_175224 Good to know. Thanks I really want to try the RD in a driver but I was on a radar this morning and I can actually crank it up to 108 now so that shaft would be a train reck waiting to happen. That train wreck is dependent upon your swing. Ignore the formulae for a moment and trust the feel of your hands. They are usually more honest as long as you are not excessively demanding and do not impose pre conceived ideas upon them. Shambles
February 3, 201213 yr comment_175225 Robb, do NOT do this. Tip trimming or butt trimming does NOT really affect FLEX at all. Tipping it helps a bit with lowering ball flight and spin but that's it. The general Flex will still remain. Tipping it within the boundaries of the shaft will not make your Regular flex play like a stiff. Over tipping it and you will have destroyed the shaft and how it was designed and intended to play. THe same from the butt. You can move the section where the shaft is supposed to bend up or down a bit but that's it! This will be a very expensive experiment for you Robb and I highly suggest you do NOT do this. This is also what ECA is saying which I fully agree. Given your swing speed and despite what I read of Crazys playing stiffer to flex, I'm afrid that a Regular flex is perhaps more me and I would have hazard at least a SR to S for you. Edited February 3, 201213 yr by wmclarenf1
February 3, 201213 yr comment_175226 RD is the softest shaft profile Crazy makes. No matter what, this shaft is likely not to fit you.
February 7, 201213 yr comment_175300 I am curious about the Tip trimming or butt trimming does NOT really affect FLEX at all. I would like to know more. Butt trimming has no affect on flex and I agree but tip trimming can change the flex a lot. You can put a shaft on a frequency machine and cut it 1/2 inch and it can change as much as 5 cpm's depending on the shaft.
February 7, 201213 yr comment_175302 I am curious about the Tip trimming or butt trimming does NOT really affect FLEX at all. I would like to know more. Butt trimming has no affect on flex and I agree but tip trimming can change the flex a lot. You can put a shaft on a frequency machine and cut it 1/2 inch and it can change as much as 5 cpm's depending on the shaft. The CPM comment on a shorter shaft increasing in CPM is true but that is a static figure. There are 3 main components of a shaft that to be concerned about... the Butt which can be a butt soft or not shaft more a feel thing and could benefit different swing profiles. The mid section which can have a high kick profile (bends closer to the butt and lower launch) or a lower kick profile (closer to the tip and higher launch) and finally, the tip section which can be soft to stiff which affect spin from high to low spin respectively and subsequently roll. So going back to your CPM comment, I suspect you are only ever measuring butt frequency or are you suggesting that the CPM figures for the various sections have increased as well? I am not the expert on frequency so others pls chime in. The flex or bend point of a shaft is predominantly in the mid section and hence tipping 1 inch or taking 1 inch off the butt will not significantly change the inherent bend point of the shaft in the mid section but only move it by 1 inch or whatever tipping or trimming was. There is no way tipping will change a low bend high launch shaft to a high bend low launch shaft. So now tipping... yes, it will make the tip stiffer and will hhelp to lower ball flight but only very slightly on the latter. It does have a lot of impact in spin I believe which could affect trajectory if spin was the root evil to begin with but th einherent propoerties of the shaft is really what it started out to be. It the objective is to lower launch and spin, best to look at the head to begin with. Again, some heads are inherently designed to be high launch high spin or whatever and if so, the shaft will tend to exagerate or down play those properties but the head will still essentially do close to what it was designed to do. So where I am coming from is if you have a high launch high spin head and you put in a stiifer for you, high kick tip stiff shaft, yes, trajectory and spin will come down a bit but you will not get it to be a low launching worm burner and that is not what the head was designed to be. You can effect it slightly but that's it. THe head in my 1 cent VAT included view is the key determinant of trajectory and spin. You have to find one first to fit your profile and then work on the shaft to fine tune that even more. Finally, the ball... that is the final fine tuning aspect and that is why there are balls deisgned for more distance (harder in general but dependent on swing speed and crush factor) and then spin (softer in general). There are of course exceptions to every rule but I believe the above are the general confines for fitting. Most important of course is a consistent swing... if you can play consistent to your swing, flaws included, you can benefot a lot with fitting. Edited February 7, 201213 yr by wmclarenf1
February 7, 201213 yr comment_175303 Okay, I understand all that as when I check frequency i check it in 6" increments from tip to butt. I was just saw the general statement that trimming the tip would not stiffen it and I knew that was not right. And I agree the flight want be affected that much. I also getting getting fit for the right shaft up front is always best.
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