Kuro Kage shaft review

Shaft Review – Mitsubishi Rayon Kuro Kage

(Written By: GolfSpy Matt) Mitsubishi Rayon claims that a new technological quantum has immune them to produce the Kuro Kage: a family of shafts which bundle top notch performance and trademark smoothen experience with a (relatively) low cost.  Does the Kuro Kage live up to these bold statements?  Read on to notice out.

Notes, Feel,  Toll, and Miscellaneous

Gotta start with this: Kuro Kage, or Black Shadow, is an crawly name.  It sounds like a comic book hero.  With a name that cool, I think the graphics are, frankly, disappointing.  The grey butt section fades to black through some square graphics around the logo.  Kinda dull, and a missed opportunity, in my stance.  Oh well.

Mistubishi says that the Kuro Kage follows their "Smooth" contour, meaning that the shaft is softest in the tip, softer in the mid section, and stiffest in the butt.  I have also heard information technology described every bit being like to a Bluish Board, but with a softer tip.  This softer tip is balanced out by a "High Density Pre-preg" in the tip that creates more stability.

How does all that technical stuff translate to feel, yous ask?  In my opinion, the Kuro Kage feels like a Kaili with a stiffer tip.  It has a nice kick in the midsection of the shaft on a skillful swing.  What'southward interesting is that on a less-than-good swing, at that place is very little kick or feel.  This sentiment was echoed by a small group of other people who demoed the Kuro Kage with me.  However, as always, that's just what my hands tell me.  Y'all can read another MGSer's thoughts here.

With regard to the hybrid shaft, I unequivocally love the feel.  Smooth, easy to load, with a squeamish firm tip.  And, as you'll run into beneath, the performance was excellent.

As I said at the beginning, the Kuro Kage is beingness offered at a much lower price than Mitsubishi's Diamana series.  The forest shafts can be purchased for $175, and the hybrid shafts retail for $80.

For this review, I tested both the wood shaft and the hybrid shaft.  The wood shaft was a lxx gram stiff, and the hybrid shaft was a 90 gram stiff.  The wood shafts are offered in l, 60, 70, and 80 grams with flexes ranging from ladies flex to 10-flex.  The hybrid shafts range weigh 80, ninety, or 100 grams and come in regular, stiff, and Ten-flex.

Performance – Driver

As usual, I've broken the Operation section into two pieces: Data (launch monitor testing) and Real Earth (range and course).  For the launch monitor testing, I put the Kuro Kage upwardly against my Matrix RUL, both in an R9 460 9.5 head.  I hit x "good" shots with each shaft, irresolute frequently then that fatigue was non an effect, nor did I get grooved with 1 shaft to the detriment of fairness.  I went through this procedure 3 times and averaged the sets of data.

For anyone interested in the swing that produces these numbers: my social club head speed is unremarkably betwixt 100MPH and 110MPH, my swing is fairly apartment, and my misses are blocks and hooks, depending on which side of the bed I go out on.

Driver Data

*For dispersion, the results are listed with an (L) for left of target, and (R) for right of target.

**The new launch monitor software that I'm using seems to actually exaggerate roll, especially on low spinning shots.  This is why my pedestrian brawl speed ends up with LM readings of 300 yards.

DATA

Analysis

I'll beginning out by saying, once more, that information technology's not fair to say that the Kuro Kage isn't good because it didn't crush the RUL.  I've tried dozens of shafts, and the RUL is merely a great fit for me.  The merely reason I include the comparison is to make the data a footling more meaningful.

That said, the Kuro Kage performed very well for me.  You can run into that it'south pretty much a mid-launch, mid-spin shaft like the RUL, with simply a scrap more spin.  Truthfully, it reminded me a lot of the Kaili that I played for quite a while last year. If you like the Kaili, or if you want to endeavor one without dropping $300+, the Kuro Kage is something worth testing.

REAL WORLD RESULTS

On the range, the Kuro Kage was difficult to distinguish from the RUL.  Based on the numbers, this shouldn't be difficult to believe.  The ballflight was very consistent from swing to swing, and information technology performed well into the wind.

Performance – Hybrid

For the hybrid shaft, I tested the Kuro Kage against the Alida RIP hybrid shaft in a 22* TaylorMade Rescue 11.  The testing procedure was the same for the hybrid equally it was for the driver.

HYBRID DATA

*For dispersion, the results are listed with an (L) for left of target, and (R) for right of target.

Information

Analysis

The area where the Kuro Kage impressed me near was dispersion.  In that location were a number of shots where I felt that the event was much better than the swing deserved.  Equally y'all tin see in the numbers, the Kuro Kage was slightly tighter on both the left and right side compared to the RIP.  The Kuro Kage did launch slightly higher than the RIP, but spun slightly less.

REAL Earth RESULTS

On the range, I experience that the discrepancy between the Kuro Kage and the RIP was much greater than the numbers bear witness.  For some reason, I had a very hard time getting a consistent shot blueprint out of the RIP: I hit shots high, low, left, and correct.  The Kuro Kage was much more than consistent in producing medium-loftier shots that were more often than not straight.

Determination

With the Kuro Kage, Mitsubishi Rayon has produced a series of shafts that characteristic the performance and feel of ane of their about popular shafts, the Kaili, at a significantly lower price.  If you've enjoyed the functioning of past Mitsubishi shafts, or if you desire to run into what all the buzz is about, the Kuro Kage is worth a await.

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