"I wish I had found Joey 10 years ago! He's like that special mechanic you find to work on your car." He was simple and to the point and gave me the information that I needed right then." "I know Joey probably doesn't want people really knowing this, but I only needed to take 1 lesson from him to go from the 90's down to the 80's. Required Browser: MSIE 5.0+ with javascript and cookies enabled. Its' sibling sites, partners, licensors, distributors, and manufacturers. , Joey O'Connor and/or The O'Connor Golf Company You may ultimately see that it may not be that cost-affective for you as you may be able to even get one of my signature series irons for less money than it would cost for you to get all of your shafts taken apart and spined. I am going for performance! Also, unless you opt for a re-gripping, your grips will be turned as well. I'm not going for cosmetics like the major manufacturers are. I'll then take the shafts and find their spine/balance point and re-assemble them! Please note that if you have graphite shafts with graphics on them that once were on the top of the shaft or underneath the shaft, they will in all probability be re-arrainged so dont be alarmed. That shaft is going to want to - and will only - flex naturally on that marked line! Now its flexing properly in a left-to-right manner! Just how we are swinging the club! Think about how the first part of the movie showed the shaft going round and round!! Why in the world would we want the shaft to do that in our golf swing?Ĭan I get my shafts spine-aligned/balanced in my set that I already play with?: YES! I can take your clubs apart, clean them and prep them for re-assembly. Meaning that when we would look down the shaft and club once it has been assembled, the marked line would now be at a 9:00 o'clock position for right-handed clubs and in a 3:00 o'clock position for left-handed clubs. I then mark that 12:00 o'clock position and will align that shaft in the clubhead with that marked like in a neutral, parallel, or squared position with the clubhead. Thats what we want!!! That shafts spine while flexing is directly on the top of the shaft - like a clock in the 12:00 o'clock position. (no, I am not knocking the manufacturer, just using them as a reference - and as I stated above this really needs to be done with all golf shafts to find the maximum performance of your golf club).ĭid you see the last part with the shaft flexing straight up and down. first as it would have been installed directly from the factory and then second as I have found the spine/balance point. SEE IT IN ACTION! In this movie you are going to see the SAME SHAFT - in this case an OEM shaft out of a well known manufacturer's driver. How do I find the spine/balance point of a golf shaft? I first use a device that simply helps initially to find a starting point and then I attach an industry standard 205 gram perfectly milled and round weight to the tip of the shaft and use a custom engineered laser system which tells me exactly how the golf shaft is flexing! My system flexes and tests the golf shaft going up and down. if the tires are BALANCED! It doesn't matter if you spent $20 per tire or $400 per tire they all get BALANCED! The same can go for golf shafts! Your car wont ride down the street going 'wobble' 'wobble' 'wobble'. What is the first thing that happens after you purchase a set of tires for your car? The tires get BALANCED! The tires would still work if they weren't but they perform much better if they are BALANCED. Now I'm are not saying that a club won't perform if I assemble a club this way, but I am saying that it is best if we take this variable out - and find the spine - so that I can install the shaft in a club head in a squared or neutral position so we know, without a shadow-of-a-doubt, that the shaft will want to flex properly left-and-right (as we swing a club) and NOT up-and-down! Why would we want a shaft to flex up-and-down when we are trying to swing it left-to-right or right-to-left?īalancing? Don't get the 'spine' explanation. So ultimately we want to find a shaft's spine so that we know exactly where the shaft is going to flex naturally! Why is this so important? Well, if we don't find the spine of a shaft, then we just ram in a shaft in a club head and hope for the best!. Golf shafts have the same characteristics and will want to flex naturally on their spines! (or really at their point of inconsistencies in wall thickness, straightness, roundness and material). But we cant bend as much (and it doesnt feel good) side to side as well as backwards. We can bend in a forward direction just fine and perfect, right? Yep. Spine-Aligning? I say 'spine' since we, as people, have spines and that is where we want to flex (bend) naturally right? Yep.
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