How can an adult have a 55 flex stick I do not understand.
I'm short at 5'7. If I used an 85 flex stick, I would have to cut it down about 7". That would increase the flex to nearly 120. Even a standard intermediate at 65 flex when cut down 3-4" goes up to about 80 flex.
The Warrior stick I use is low kick, so they feel stiffer than rated. If Easton's 65 flex is a baseline, the 70 flex felt closer to 75-80 flex. So when I cut down the stick 3-4", it felt like about 90-95 flex and was too stiff.
That's why I tried the 55 flex...I chopped off 3-4" and it went to about 70-75 flex. It's a little whippy, yes, and slappers are going to torque on me, but for pure wrist/snap shots, it works really well.
In the future, I'll look for sticks that either have top hand flex points or uniform flex. My Vapor X:60 was a 75 flex intermediate (intermediate length but stiffer than normal) and when I chopped it down the flex was probably 90 or so, but it flexed at the top hand, so it felt maybe 5-10 flex softer.
Side note, Base sticks always felt about 10 flex whippier than rated. Their 65 flex intermediates felt like about 55-60 flex to me. I run into the local Base rep all the time and have checked out a number of their sticks. When I handed him my 75 flex intermediate, he thought it was stiffer than his usual 100 flex stick. But that's because he's 6' tall and uses a stick about 6" longer than mine.
I'd say it's 75% stick length and 25% personal preference. The taller you are, the longer stick you use, and the whippier it will feel at any given length, so you go up in flex to compensate.
Sorry if I seem harsh here but that's nearly beyond wrong. The technique we're referring too is very different from a traditional wrist shot. Of course, it has some elements of the wrist shot, no doubt, but the two are certainly quite different. You'll notice that if you try to execute both. The snap shot uses more of your inner shoulder and body weight as leverage while the normal wrister is more about rhythm and the sweeping motion.
