question about easton's flex

[crazyhick 19]

I recently bought an '08 Easton St 110 flex shaft a few weeks ago on clearance. I like a high flex on all my sticks and I figured 110 flex would be right at the low end of what i like.

So I step into warm-ups the other night and each shot i took felt like I was trying to shoot into a sandtrap. I've tried both composite and wood blades in it (warrior johnson and sher-wood 9050) with no diffrence at all. When I choke down on the stick to try and find an ample flex, it looks like i'd need to hack almost a foot off the shaft. Is this how most Eastons are or did I happen to buy a defected shaft?

[Machinehead2k5 32]

If you hacked off a foot of the stick it would turn into a 200flex stick...or something like that.

[AIREAYE 248]

I recently bought an '08 Easton St 110 flex shaft a few weeks ago on clearance. I like a high flex on all my sticks and I figured 110 flex would be right at the low end of what i like.

So I step into warm-ups the other night and each shot i took felt like I was trying to shoot into a sandtrap. I've tried both composite and wood blades in it (warrior johnson and sher-wood 9050) with no diffrence at all. When I choke down on the stick to try and find an ample flex, it looks like i'd need to hack almost a foot off the shaft. Is this how most Eastons are or did I happen to buy a defected shaft?

High flex means that it's really stiff...so how is that a low-end flex rating? :S

So do you want a whippier stick or a stiffer stick? Because 110 is about as high as it goes, unless you find some 120 flex pro stock OPS'

[bostonjuniorblackhawks 1]

^^Warrior makes the AK27 shaft in 120 flex. I think Mack has used a few

[crazyhick 19]

I like a very stiff stick (110+) but with this shaft being labeled as 110 and being as whippy as it is... makes me wonder if it is a defunct shaft or that Easton's flex rating system is actually lower than advertised.

[skyscrape 5]

I like a very stiff stick (110+) but with this shaft being labeled as 110 and being as whippy as it is... makes me wonder if it is a defunct shaft or that Easton's flex rating system is actually lower than advertised.

Did you cut the shaft down at all?

If you look at the newer easton shafts, the have to be cut two inches to get to the advertised flex. Same thing with their sticks. This is one of the reasons I do not use Easton sticks.

[phonak 0]

I know that easton's flex start after you cut it down 3 inches, but how much flex is the 85 shaft before you cut it then? On the shaft the scale says from 85 to 90 it's 3 inches, but that seems a bit too small of an flex increase to me. Basically, is the relation between flex increase per inch cut constant, so it would make my shaft 80 flex right now?

[thorbs 2]

Eastons have always felt whippier to me than other sticks at the same flex