Flex Point Question

[JoeyInCali]

Hi,

IMHO the best playing shaft taper geometry is 13MM or a tad thicker and will flex at about 7 to 8" from the tip if you hold them on the ends and flex the shaft.

Rick

The tip size doesn't have much to do with it as the taper .
Case in point, billiard shafts.

 

[HawaiianEye]

Since the first five inches of Predator shafts are hollow, could one assume the flex point is at the bottom of the five-inch mark.

I know I can feel my Predator shaft kind of "buckle" when I hit a shot that requires me to put some "oomph" on the ball.

 

[JoeyInCali]

Since the first five inches of Predator shafts are hollow, could one assume the flex point is at the bottom of the five-inch mark.

.

No.
The old Pred with it's 17" " pro-taper" wiggled way past that .
Maybe the conical version these days will be closer to that 5" mark.

If the flex point were only 5" from the tip, it would be a very stiff shaft.