CHANGING HOW I REGRIP CLUBS / Why You Should Too

Over the last few months I have changed how I regrip all golf clubs. My new method I believe is both better and faster than the traditional method we have all been using to install golf grips. In this video I show you what changes I’ve made and why I changed.

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Okay one of my New Year’s resolutions this year is to be more efficient in everything I’m doing and that definitely includes here in the shop so I’ve got a new way that I am regripping all golf clubs and I think it’s better and I think you should be doing it too I’m

Going to show you what it is and why I do it let’s Go So there are really three key changes I’ve made to how I am now regripping golf clubs uh but what hasn’t changed at all is the first step of if you are removing old grips that basically has stayed constant which is you’re going to want a utility knife with a hook blade

To cut off the old grip and you’re going to want to remove all the old tape either using a haird dryer or a heat gun or something like that to help soften up that adhesive get all that old tape off so that has not changed we’re going to

Jump right into the next stage which is putting on the new tape and putting on the new grip all right so the first thing we’re going to be doing when we are putting on the new grip is we’re going to be putting on new double-sided

Tape and first off let me show you how I have always uh recommended and traditionally put on the double-sided tape so what I would do is lay the tape down the top of the shaft right down the middle and I would have about a half inch of tape hanging over the edge just

Like this so what we would do is we’d wrap one side of the tape around we’d wrap the other side of the tape around get it nice and smooth and then all this tape at the end I would twist into a little into a little nod or just kind of

Twist it all up and then push it inside the tip of the grip so that it completely seals off the inside of the shaft now the reason I did this and I’ve always had this in my mind I had always heard this idea of you want to seal off

The end of the shaft because you don’t want dirt and debris getting inside the shaft well having now done this for years and years and years and again thousands and thousands of grips I can pretty readily say that that doesn’t really seem to ever happen you don’t

Just get dirt and debris getting inside that tiny little vent hole from the grip down into the shaft so I don’t know that that’s actually a real valid reason to wrap that tape and shove it down in there and completely seal off the inside of that shaft so I don’t think it really

Matters that you’re keeping dirt and debris out I don’t think it’s really getting in there however I do worry more that when you are sealing off that end you are really kind of completely vacuumizing let’s call it completely Sealing in off the inside of that shaft so that you have no real air

Flow going through that shaft and if you have a steel shaft that lack of air flow or being able to trap moisture in there so readily can only be a bad thing because you’re only going to lead to more chances of corrosion and rust on the inside of that shaft I would much

Rather have a little bit some ability for air to move in and out of that shaft to hopefully keep that shaft in better condition for longer now the other issue when you completely BL off the end of the grip is you can have this happen if

We go put this grip on the traditional way put the solvent on get it nice and wet and we go to slide the grip on and what you see is a fire hose likee spray of grip solvent flying backwards so if you are not ready readily aware

That that’s going to happen and stand off to the side like I just did well that grip solvent is going to get all over you all over your clothes all over anything that’s behind you much like it did here I’m going to have to wipe off

My uh shaft puller here because I did that with such a Gusto so all of these are reasons where I don’t think having that back end of the grip completely sealed off with tape actually makes sense so the method that I think actually works a lot better and makes a lot more sense

Is that we’re going to put the tape down the center of the shaft again but we’re only going to let about let’s pull a little bit less only about call that A4 of an inch of tape hang over the end now once again we’re going to wrap down one side make

Sure we get it all smooth wrap down the other side but at this point when we tuck in the tape and I’ll just show you right here instead of it being completely closed closed off what you can see there is we now have an opening down inside the

Shaft which will both give us better ventilation and the second reason well we’ll come back to it but that whole solvent spray that we just had will not be a problem now that we have that little opening there one last thing I will say about this method I have

Noticed when I use the old method and completely wrapped the tape and shoved it down inside the shaft and closed everything off that I can come back sometimes days later and if I take that grip back off notice that that tape is still wet with solvent in the butt end of that grip

Meaning that it’s not completely dry so that’s never good because it slows down the process it slows down the time it takes for that club to be ready when I use this method and do not fully close off the butt end of the shaft it dries much more quickly means that you can

Play the club much faster okay second change that I am making for all of my regripping has to do with this little piece of plastic that comes at or on the end of a lot of grips including Golf Pride including Lampkin I did a a video

Or a short I think where I showed that you don’t even have to theoretically take this off you can leave it on install the grip and just the force of the shaft sliding into the grip can break this off however over time I have realized that certain uh brands use a

Different amount of plastic use a different thickness of plastic and what you can find is if you’re struggling at all getting the grip on it may hinder your ability to get it all the way on and that’s never good you don’t want it to get stuck because of this little

Piece of plastic I’ve also found that even if it doesn’t it gets a little bit messy you get some solvent dripping on it so even when it breaks off it’s kind of messy when you have to fully take it off after the grip’s on so I’ve decided

It just makes more sense to just take it off before we start putting the grip on now that being said it’s hard to get these off you have to kind of pick at them or you can run a utility knife on it but I got this tip from a viewer and

I can’t remember who it was otherwise I would give a shout out but I think this is the easiest fastest method to get this off and it’s why I’m doing it basically every single time now I no longer just leave the plastic on when I

Put the grip on I do this beforehand and it looks very simply like this grab the grip like this have about 2 in hanging out past the end here and you’re just going to take it onto a table and go bang it on the table a couple

Times that’s it comes right off don’t have to worry about it done done okay final tip this has to do with how I actually install the grip how I actually put the solvent on and install the grip so the traditional method that most of us use is sometimes

You’ll take a t and stick it in the little vent hole here and fill the grip up with solvent and then kind of shake it back and forth sometimes including what I always did was just put your finger over the vent tole put your thumb over the other end shake it back and

Forth get the full inside of the grip covered in solvent right so two big problems with that the first one is well you’re getting your hands in contact with a lot of solvent and I don’t know how bad grip solvent mineral spance is to have on your skin

But I know it’s not good so if we can minimize that and have as little contact as possible with any of the chemicals that we use in here well that’s only going to be a good thing the second thing is even forgetting about any sort of issues with having it touch your skin

For medical reasons it also just makes it more difficult if you get some of that solvent on your fingers to then continue the process of regrouping clubs because if your hands have solvent on them that means when it comes time to pulling new tape to trying to get the

Tape onto the shaft and get it sitting and stuck on the shaft that solvent can keep the tape from sticking properly and it just slows down the entire process so what I really wanted was a method to one not have to touch the solvent so it

Doesn’t get on my fingers and have any of those worries about that and two just to speed up the process so I can be faster with how I tape and install grips so this is the method I use now for every single golf grip it works every

Time it works every bit as well as the method that we’ve already discussed but it reduces the amount of solvent that can come in contact with your hands all right so here’s what we’re going to do instead of filling the entire grip up with solvent and shaking it around that

Is not necessary you do not need to have solvent touching every surface inside this grip in fact you really only need to have a little bit of solvent right down here at the tip end so what we’re going to do looks like this I’ve got all my solvent in this little squeeze bottle

Which makes this a whole lot easier and we’re just going to put a quick run of solvent down on the shaft down on the tape just like that second I’m just going to take and just put a little tiny bit of solvent just in the tip like that

And just let it run down inside there now we can slide it right on no issues goes on without any problem also notice with this method without capping off the tape there at the end we don’t get nearly the pressure buildup and the explosion of grip solvent spraying out

Of the back where it can cover you and cover everything else it’s a much smaller amount of solvent that leaks back out again we get everything lined up we make sure everything’s where it needs to be wiggle the end of it tap it down a couple times we’re

Going to let this club rest now in the grip down position so that any leftover solvent will drain out this will dry again much faster and be ready to use faster because we don’t have that excess tape wedged up in here that can kind of just hold extra moisture in there hey if

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