I had my knee surgery yesterday so Im killing time....
Thanks.
So now that you are a moderator and you have had knee surgery you just clap your hands and we are suppose to dance before you? Is that the way it is? Are we here for your entertainment?
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So now that you are a moderator and you have had knee surgery you just clap your hands and we are suppose to dance before you? Is that the way it is? Are we here for your entertainment?
Agreed my friend, what are we just 30 mins entertainment for our lord and masters amusement.
I've never hit a wood or hybrid with an Aldila shaft that felt good to me. I've bought a few used ones that I either resold or reshafted. Every Voo Doo I've ever hit has felt like petrified Doo Doo. The Proto By-You can be thrown back into the Bayou with the rest of the rotting limbs. The NV-HL's that were standard issue on my Cobra hybrids have been long gone replaced by really good shafts--V2's. Of course I'm a slow swinging geriatric case and almost every club in the stores comes with Voo Doo's etc in stiff. Maybe a regular would feel better. But I'll be damned if I'll spend $200-300 USD on a shaft. The epoxy is now drying on a 905T head that I just stuck a discontinued Grafalloy Comp NT regular into, a brand new made in 2006 I got for $15 at a golf parts store near me. I guarantee it'll feel better than any damn Aldila.
I've never hit a wood or hybrid with an Aldila shaft that felt good to me. I've bought a few used ones that I either resold or reshafted. Every Voo Doo I've ever hit has felt like petrified Doo Doo. The Proto By-You can be thrown back into the Bayou with the rest of the rotting limbs. The NV-HL's that were standard issue on my Cobra hybrids have been long gone replaced by really good shafts--V2's. Of course I'm a slow swinging geriatric case and almost every club in the stores comes with Voo Doo's etc in stiff. Maybe a regular would feel better. But I'll be damned if I'll spend $200-300 USD on a shaft. The epoxy is now drying on a 905T head that I just stuck a discontinued Grafalloy Comp NT regular into, a brand new made in 2006 I got for $15 at a golf parts store near me. I guarantee it'll feel better than any damn Aldila.
Mongrel, The best hybrid I've tried and currently bag is the Cobra Baffler DWS with the stock "Designed for Cobra" Aldila NV-HL Stiff shafts. It's sort of a silver and grey shaft and I'm sure it's different than the green Aldila NV-H shafts. It's the best hybrid I've tried and it feels great as well.
Mongrel, The best hybrid I've tried and currently bag is the Cobra Baffler DWS with the stock "Designed for Cobra" Aldila NV-HL Stiff shafts. It's sort of a silver and grey shaft and I'm sure it's different than the green Aldila NV-H shafts. It's the best hybrid I've tried and it feels great as well.
I've got the DWS as well and I tried a ton of hybrids and it's the only one I could hit worth a damn. Mine has an NV as well, but it's blue, I think. I'll check and report my findings. Stay tuned and don't let the anticipation and suspense get to you.
Mongrel, The best hybrid I've tried and currently bag is the Cobra Baffler DWS with the stock "Designed for Cobra" Aldila NV-HL Stiff shafts. It's sort of a silver and grey shaft and I'm sure it's different than the green Aldila NV-H shafts. It's the best hybrid I've tried and it feels great as well.
I bought my 20* and 25 or 26* (whatever the fivebrid is), the first Bafflers sans dual or triple weights, with that same shaft. In the 20*, the shaft has been Jekyll and Hyde with a lot of destructive hard pulls with a few really good high draws dead on target in between. I also bought the 23* fourbrid with the fivebrid but f*cked up assuming that the fourbrid had the stiff shaft but when I got it home I discovered it was the NV-HL proprietary Cobra hybrid shaft in Senior flaccid flex and totally unhitable. That 23* now has a V@ 67 gram stiff shaft in it and it is an absolute atom-smasher that begs to be nailed and has an extremelhy high trajectory. The ball gets up to apex real fast and gets flat and travels. I hate those shafts and will reshaft the 20* threebrid if my Ping Eye 2 1 iron experiment doesn't go well. Maybe your newer-by-one generation Baffler heads are the key to the shaft.
Unless you're the kind of person who can't tell the difference between a Yugo and a Ferrari, after-market shafts contribute more to performance than your mass produced made in China clubhead.
Unless you're the kind of person who can't tell the difference between a Yugo and a Ferrari, after-market shafts contribute more to performance than your mass produced made in China clubhead.
Any mature motorhead knows that the Yugo was originally designed by and its manufacture supervised by FIAT (Fix It Again, Tony).
It was better than the mobile bomb known as the Ford Pinto . . . . .
No way, Pinto and Vega were better than Yugo, much better... but Pinto was a piece of junk, I know, I bought a used one for $900 back in 1975 while in college, good thing it got stolen in 1976
I can remember driving around with my brother and dad in an old Desoto. The old man would sit in the passenger seat and me and the bro would take turns with one steering and one pushing on the gas. Go for a little while and then switch. First car I ever had was an old hand me down 65 chevy belair. The old man gave it to us when I was 15. Burned to much oil, we ended up using used oil. Hell of a lot cheaper. What were some of you other members first cars?
Bridgestone J38 10.5, Srixon 2,3,4 hybrids. Snake Eyes Viper Tour
Eidolon 52,56 and 60 wedges.
Bettinardi sb-5+ putter.
I can remember driving around with my brother and dad in an old Desoto. The old man would sit in the passenger seat and me and the bro would take turns with one steering and one pushing on the gas. Go for a little while and then switch. First car I ever had was an old hand me down 65 chevy belair. The old man gave it to us when I was 15. Burned to much oil, we ended up using used oil. Hell of a lot cheaper. What were some of you other members first cars?
Growing up on a farm, we had some interesting vehicles. The first one I drove was a
1940's milk truck that the previous owner had left in a field and my father and a handyman got it running. It had no brakes and I was forced to learn to push in the clutch, put it in gear, and run it for a couple of feet. A year later, the old man bought a new 1958 Dodge 3.4 ton pickup with a straight 6 and 4 speed manual. First gear was a low-low. I learned good on that ride and by the time I was 13, I could slide it in a 4 wheel drift in 2nd gear with the rear wheels spinning in the best drifting tradition. My first real car I learned to drive was a 1955 Chrysler 300, the original one, white with tan leather and the 331 c.u. hemi with dual Carter quads and a two speed auto with the shifter protruding from the dashboard. This was my field car and I could manage to get it to 80 mph in low gear on a slightly downhill stretch paralleling our fairway. Of course everytime I did that the brakes overheated and faded to almost nothing so I had to throw her sideways to make a 90* turn at 20 mph. Boy do I wish I had that sucker today. Real wire wheels, great Euro styling (for the '50's, anyway).
I grew up on a farm too. Started driving a tractor when I was about six. I could steer straight so drove the bailer while dad was on the rack. He'd jump off at the end get er turned back down the field and jump back on the rack. Like to see some youngsters try to stack on a hay wagon without losing the whole effing load.
Bridgestone J38 10.5, Srixon 2,3,4 hybrids. Snake Eyes Viper Tour
Eidolon 52,56 and 60 wedges.
Bettinardi sb-5+ putter.
Yes, the NV is mid-trajectory, the NVS higher trajectory, i.e. lower kickpoint
I prefer the NV.
I tried the NVS with a Titleist 907 D2 8.5 driver and the ball flight was way too high and shot up a little. I had the NV-65 (I think that's what it was called...the green one) with my Cleveland 460 Launcher and it was great. When I played it with the Titleist 905S 8.5 I didn't like it at all. The bore-thru probably made it too stiff.
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Originally Posted by jt1135
I can remember driving around with my brother and dad in an old Desoto. The old man would sit in the passenger seat and me and the bro would take turns with one steering and one pushing on the gas. Go for a little while and then switch. First car I ever had was an old hand me down 65 chevy belair. The old man gave it to us when I was 15. Burned to much oil, we ended up using used oil. Hell of a lot cheaper. What were some of you other members first cars?
A 1967 Rallye sport Camaro. With a 327ci, 2 speed powerglide trans. In 1979 Candy apple red, with a black vinyl roof, and Cragars.
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Both decent shafts if you are talking under $50 shafts. Like others on this Board I've never really been enraptured with Aldila. My favourite shafts (in no particular order are Graf Blue, UTS Pro Force 75, UST V2 75, GD Pershing 75 and Blue Board 63; all in stiff flex). I have a VS Proto 70 stiff and NV 65 stiff in current drivers and IMO they are a little unpredictable. If I had to pick one shaft the Graf Blue stiff was an absolute beast whe I was strong enough to hit it. It had a beautiful mid flight that levelled out and flew for ever and landed with plenty of run. It's the only shat I've used that wouldn't hook even a little on hard swings.
The views expressed by Not a Hacker are not meant to be understood by you primitive screw heads. Don't take it personally, just sit back and enjoy the writings of your better.
Both decent shafts if you are talking under $50 shafts. Like others on this Board I've never really been enraptured with Aldila. My favourite shafts (in no particular order are Graf Blue, UTS Pro Force 75, UST V2 75, GD Pershing 75 and Blue Board 63; all in stiff flex). I have a VS Proto 70 stiff and NV 65 stiff in current drivers and IMO they are a little unpredictable. If I had to pick one shaft the Graf Blue stiff was an absolute beast whe I was strong enough to hit it. It had a beautiful mid flight that levelled out and flew for ever and landed with plenty of run. It's the only shat I've used that wouldn't hook even a little on hard swings.
I play the Pershing in my Mizuno MX700 and love it.
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Originally Posted by Pky6471
I love NV, have not tried NVS yet but I am told its trajectory is higher... so it depends on your ball's trajectory
Some of my best drives have been with my 4dx and a Adila nv green thats been tipped. I also have 8.5 deg tm r580 with a nv green stiff, thats a nice combo. I have one uncut raw length, thats almost 48 inches, for the 4dx.
Tm R9 420cc 9.5 Motore Tm R9 3 wood rip phenom, Titleist 909h 19* 24* voodoo, Scratch EZ-1 ds i80,steelfiber 3 or 4. 5-9 KBS, ds 47* jlm, pdg 53* ds 60* Odyssey Black 2 ball tour blade 33.5" Lethal
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