While fiddling with the driver shaft I constantly changed positions to see how the shaft would react. Both are higher then the Kai'li but neither reaches the level of the Ilima for example. The weaker mid section flings it through with a bit of vigour but even so, the launch is not overly high nor overly spinny. You can certainly feel the tip kick through the ball nicely. The result means you get a solid mid ball flight with midish spin levels. Just before the tip section the shaft stiffens up and then has a softer tip section where as the Kai'li stiffens up considerablly at the tip. The mid section gets gradually softer exactly like a Kai'li. Right after that though, it stiffens up a bit. It will feel more like a Ahina/Whiteboard under your hands. The butt section is not as stiff as a Kai'li.

However that's not really how these shafts play. If you read the standard marketing out there, that's likely what you'll pull from the description. Now, does that profile I mentioned above sound familair to anyone? If you've followed MRC's line at all you'll hear the echo of the Kai'li profile in that description. The result is suppose to be less weight with more strenght. They've also managed to reduce how much resin they required in the manufactoring process which allowed them to add more fibre in. What I managed to find out while they were coming in is that they are marketed from MRC as to have a stiff butt section, weaker mid section with a firm tip. When I was first hunting these shafts, details as I said above, were sketchy at best. Frankly I'm suprised they didn't make a AX P for the putter shaft for a lark and follow Matrix and Fujikura down that line but whatever. It appears a lesson MRC learned well with the flow of the Fubuki line in the Alpha to AX F to AX H to AX I. MRC has really kept the same feel throughout the entire line, something I'm quite pleased with. Normally, I'd split my comments across the hybrid, fairway and driver results and expectations but in this case, it really isn't required.

I do have a bunch of LM numbers coming for you but I lost the sheets (ugh) and haven't had a chance to go back for a re-print of the results. The fairway and driver shaft went into Cobra S2's. 2 of the hybrid shafts are Callaway Razr's the other two in Adams 1300SS. Through various sources over the past month I've managed to aquire 4 hybrid shafts as well as a 70 and 60 gram wood shaft all in stiff flex. Given that I'm a huge MRC fan for shafts, this was certainly something I needed to try out. Details at the time were spotty but it was known ahead of time that this was going to be more of a 'budget' line, or at least from MRC's standard pricing models where most driver shafts are $360 retail. A few months ago Golfspy Matt made my ears (virutal) perk up when he mentioned there was a new shaft coming from Mitsubishi (MRC) called the Kuro Kage.

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