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Brauns last full year was 2012 ....41 homers 112 rbi and hit .319 ....his full season of 2014 stats 19 homers 80 rbi and hit .266....hardly "basically the same player"

Athletes are the worst at prescribing to the Magic bean theory. A lot of body builders who have already crafted their physiques with roids or hgh or or other peds, keep using because they fear what will happen to them if they stop. Maybe part of tigers problem is the fact that mentally he feels like he's missing some performance because he stopped using and it's greatly affected his confidence. I've seen it in all kinds of athletes. That's why they go to such great lengths to use and not get caught and even though the guy in the locker next to them just got suspended for the year, they continue to use out of fear of what they will become without them. "How much of it is me, and how much of it is the stuff in taking?" Is a thought that passes thru many an athletes mind.

As someone who has had some experience on this subject.....in my opinion he most definately has. Steroids work very quickly and you see results very fast, they help you recover very quickly. Hgh use is a slow long term approach, that you must keep up daily or every other day. The problem with both is this...1.steroids keep your body from producing testosterone because your body is already producing so much your body shuts down it's own production 2. Hgh shuts down the output of the pituitary gland which turns off your ability to produce it. Like any drug over time your body grows accustomed to the doses so to maintain, u have to up the doses. Once that stops your body goes into withdrawal and for a lot of long time users their cells lose some of their ability to repair themselve. That means that you are much more succeptible to injury because what before may have been a strain turns into a tear. Simply due to the fact that you have messed with the body's natural ability to repair itself. The faster your body can repair the cells, the bigger stronger faster and less likely to be injured you are. We see it in all sport. Name one mlb player who used peds got off and produced anywhere near what they did before. Our bodies have an amazing ability to repair themselves if we don't mess with the chemistry. Watch the NFL now that they are blood testing for hgh the amount of injuries will rise significantly.

Depending on the venue 50-60 yds wide

Conditions change a ton during competitions if you are trying to hit a high launched fade swinging at 140 + mph into a left to right wind... You are going to miss the grid or spin out everytime. Working the ball is huge in what we do.

Don't let the old geezers get to you. I'm a long drive competitor on the LDA, so I work the ball a lot. The one thing I see that would help you is to swing more towards "first base" this will help you from coming over the top. When I'm working on drawing the ball I really try to release the club by feeling like I'm swinging towards first base and getting my forearms to touch after contact this really helps release the club from the inside

What ball flight are you looking for? What miss do you fight?

Hey dude, good solid swing. Are you hitting high blocks and fades ? What ball flight do you want ?

I didn't realize there was a my swing section. Thanks for the suggestion. Did you notice that much difference between rbz and stage 2?

I took a titelist 915 d3, a callaway xhot, and a ping rapture all in x stiff shafts against my 975d in a 7.5 degree head and hit them against eachother on track man. I know people think new tech has added quite a bit of distance but I can tell you that at an average swing speed of 131 with standard length setups, the 975d when struck in the center of the face produced the same ball speed and total distance as drivers 15 years newer. While I agree that new tech helps on off center hits, solid contact vs solid contact the numbers are the same. COR limits have already been maxed out on drivers there cannot be anymore springlike effect. Driver sales are huge business for the manufactures, all in saying is don't believe the hype.

If you hit both drivers "on the screws" because of COR regulations, can new technology really be 15 yds longer?

Has anyone who has played any of the 975 or 983 titelist models changed to the new 915 d3? What do you like or dislike?

I'm amazed at how well the club performs in all types of situations. I went from playing my callaway x tours to mizuno mp 32s irons and was really surprised by the feel length and consistantcy. Maybe all this new tech isn't really doing us any favors. Do you think smaller more unforgiving clubs help you become a better ball striker in the long run? Golf is funny because in no other sport do you find the "magic bean" syndrome to such a degree. "These irons are going to lower my scores by 6 shots" .....can we really buy a better golf game? Those of you who have played golf for a while, what's the biggest change in technology that you think has helped your game significantly?

I started golf around 2004, having played football and baseball in college. I loved hitting drivers, and over the years I've competed in the remax world long drive comps. I am constantly tinkering with different driver setups from 3.5 degrees of loft on xxx stiff hof shafts to 42 inch Fti squared heads. The other day I got paired up with a guy who was hitting a titelist 975d in an x flex Fuji at 7.5 degrees. I got into golf only about 10 years ago so these drivers were never on my radar. After seeing the amount of roll he was getting I asked to hit it on a couple of tees. I was amazed at how solid and how far the ball went with such old techology. I found another 7.5 975d at my local golf shop for 15 bucks in an x flex. So I decided to do a test against new tech. I compared it to the driver I currently game, an 8.5 callaway x hot with a 2x hof shaft standard length. Here's what I found....at 131 avg swing speed with the callaway after 6 balls the average drive was right around 340. The 975d had an average of 129 swing speed but produced a higher ball speed than the callaway with the average drive falling around 345. Comparing dead center hits between the two clubs, the 975d was every bit as if not longer than the x hot. In my opinion the only thing new technology has helped the modern golf game, is on off center hits the dispersion is much better. The workability of the smaller head, the more lower and boring the trajectory of this club makes it an unreal gamer in your bag. I wish I would have found this club sooner.