Others here may chime in on this, but I'm pretty sure that your swing speed with the 5i must be noticeably greater than 75mph if you hit your 5i 180 yds. So I wouldn't judge what you needed based on that bit of info. I think that the S in the Airelite probably isn't overly stiff for 180 yd 5i's swing speed. You might note that in Dynacraft's 2004 shaft Fitting Addenda, they list a shaft that sounds similar. Called the Precision Superlite. It sounded similar to your shafts......102-107gm at 41", available in R and S. In Dynacraft's frequency and deflection testing, the S Airelite tested just about like the Rifle 4.5. The R would have been about like a 4.0 based on extrapolation of the rifle data.
Brad
On Sunday, April 17, 2005, at 02:41 PM, Alan Joyce wrote:
When I say stiff, that's the way Precision sells the rifle airlite. Regular and stiff. I went by Golfsmith's RSSR 75-85 but I had heard they played a little soft. Now I read Dynacraft's shaft charts and they explain a soft tip tends to cause a draw bias. I believe this is what I'm seeing with these shafts. I'm a pretty good ball sticker...usually shot in the mid seventies, so my swing I think is sound.
tflan wrote:
When you say "stiff" what do you mean? 5.5's, 6.0's. I installed 5.0's in a set of BeCu Ping Eye 2's. I selected 5.0's simply because I got them from a guy pretty cheap. In the world of Rifles, 5.0's are pretty stiff. If there were a "standard" flex, 5.0 would be R+. 4.5 would be "R". If you're swinging it ay 75 mph, "stiff" seems to me to be the wrong flex. But then in the world of "empiricists", assuming flex vs swing speed doesn't really fit the golfer.
RE: the Cleveland Launcher, I recently acquired via trade a 10.5 �Cleveland Launcher 460 w/standard 55 gm, gold Fuji "R" flex shaft, and I hit it a lot longer than the Titleist 983K I was using. The 983 is also a 10.5� w/stock "R" shaft. In fact, the Launcher is the longest driver I've hit in a long time. I now have a deal working on a 10� Ping G2 w/Grafalloy Launcher shaft. One of the nice things about where I play (and do occasional repairs is that guys buy clubs and dump them really cheap, so I get to hit a lot of OEM stuff as well as component builds.
In any event, no matter what a machine tells you about your swingspeed, launch angle, etc., you still have to hit the clubs to find out what works and what doesn't.
TFlan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Joyce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 5:48 AM Subject: ShopTalk: rifle lite
Has anyone tried these shafts. I placed a set of stiff in my new Wishon irons. I have a swing speed of 75 with my 5 iron. I can't seem to control these at all. I usually draw the ball nicely, but with these they hook, hook hook. Does the low kick point have anything to do with this.
On another note a friend of mine when to have a launch monitor fitting fora new driver. After half an hour, he was fitted with a Cleveland launcher 10.5 with a Aldila NV in stiff (106 mph ss). This was the launch and spin that the vector said was best not a chart or the employee. We played a round yesterday.He hit this thing sooo hit any short it was unbelievble. A have a driver ss at 100 and was out driving him with my HiCor by 20 yards. You should have heard him.....$579...*&[EMAIL PROTECTED]@
Al
