DIAMANA WHITEBOARD REVIEW // Diamana’s Best Shaft Yet?

Today Ian is in the bay to test out the brand new Diamana WB line of shafts. Made for the 20th anniversary of the Diamana shaft line, the WB features the same stiff feel as the original offering, with modernized technology and style. Se how Ian adapts to the line in his test session with the shafts.

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One done I just got to say I don’t know where that came from feels great performed amazing 167 292 12 at 22 jeez okay guys welcome back to the channel so today Michael we are going to start with a little walk down memory lane Y young Michael in his

Diapers 2004 you were probably still rolled around in your own whatever I hope not at 9 years old I hope not yeah you never know Christina Leon can you confirm um so 2004 Mitsubishi came out with the blueboard the OG damana really changed the way in my opinion shafts were built as families

Now there was other ones that came before there was graphy prite and prite Elite right so one with a stiffer tip one with a softer tip there was ald envy and there was nvs but really when you build a family again that goes actually when you wear into diapers but when you

Build a family you’re kind of looking for obviously more options interchangeable heads we’ve got heads with different CG locations Etc we saw for the very first time when D Man launched whiteboard blueboard RedBoard this fully comprehensive family of shafts 20 years ago good thing times have changed things have gotten

Better people have gotten better looking shafts have improved with technology they they have um they’ve evolved for sure the golfer has evolved in 20 years I think if we look back to swing speeds on even the PJ tour and what the average golfer was was swinging the the driver

At specifically and also the the driver head design if you look at today’s driver head design if we want to use ping 430 10K as an example the bigger we make that head you know we elongate to the back we stretch out the toe the the greater the force that’s placed on the

Shaft is so from a twisting perspective Dro lead deflection all those things the shaft in its Dynamic motion changes and materials have gotten stronger and Designs have have gotten better as a result so today we’re talking DM whiteboard they have not ex brought the whole family back yet no they started

With whiteboard which I’m curious about because the whole thing started with blueboard yeah um so not sure why that one is they probably wanted start with the murdered out verion first yes now cosmetically modern modern yeah different quite nice mish’s Flagship line um you kindly educated us ear on

The meaning of diam Mana Diamond power Diamond power I hope that’s right from the last time I was there don’t look it up just sounds good oh that’s good um so yeah they’ve brought it back the 20th anniversary we’re going to test them out today in the kind of whiteboard profile

I’m I’m a tensy white guy in my fairs I’m I’m eager to see what this uh feels like and and flies like in comparison to those love it okay um let’s dive in okay all right F so technically sixth generation diam here um there’s been a

Few do you remember one that you I mean yeah B uh TV a TV is quite nice I had a a Hina way back in the day uh in a too much few then I knew you back then I know those are some that was the wab be

Days rough days anyways we can fast forward um similar profile to the you know 20 years ago what they did in uh in the WB but they’ve just up upgraded the materials obviously Dam really being a Mitsubishi company um back in the day everyone thought it was just oh I’m

Going to use a DM product um but they’ve got uh 80 ton in this guy which you were saying earlier they were built with a lot lower than that well I mean it’s it’s they used to throw around whatever ton pitch fiber they had in the shaft

And they used to they used to throw it around like a like a Bast we’ve got 40 ton pitch fiber here the reality is all shafts are made with with a multitude of different fibers in there so in this one we have 80 ton in the butt section for

It to be you know really nice and stable and my God does it feel it I don’t know if I’ve played a shaft that’s felt this way I never really played a hazardous smoke right you know the Hulk or anything like that I mean they’re super

Butt stiff but this is this feels like heavy and and sturdy in sort of the back end um and then it’s got so it’s got 80 ton in the handle it’s got 46 down layered through at different sort of angles as they do they they sort of um

Lay the the the PES at 45 degree angles to give it more torsional stability so there’s not just one bias to the the layering of the the the carbon um the nice thing with that is that you can enhance the stability without increasing the weight yeah and and and ultimately

When you’re trying to get a higher carbon to resin count which is where the fuel comes from and consistency and all those things you know you start to lean into that’s where we extract the most energy we get the the most efficient loading and unloading like we said in the intro I’m

I’m a tensy white player in Fairways I don’t know if I’ll really have a need to move into something else until I really Chang my swing this is just feels like a different animal yeah like this is a heavy loaders shaft it feels like anoy

Yeah I mean we were chatting to a friend of ours at uh at Mitsubishi and they were saying last week LPGA PGA they had 16 pieces in play yeah um across the two tours so um definitely getting a little bit of traction and some interest in in

It but I think especially on the PGA side I don’t think the shaft is for the the faint to Heart in way I don’t think it’s 100% maybe a profile that would work for you either you know the first couple swings like you said it’s a lot firmer

In the handles and stuff like that so interesting to see how it performs um but yeah I think it’s it’s a it’s a big boy Tour Part in hindsight I would have done 53 driver 63 3w 73 uh fivewood and I think I would have felt more

Comfortable out the gate right now I’m a little bit the back foot feeling like this is this is mey let’s see let’s see that wasn’t bad perhaps a tad on the thin side Mikey but sound a bit better better and when people see on paper like low torque shaft the shafts you’re currently

Playing why is the torque in US 83x 2.7 feels it yeah I was just going to say can you oh yeah yeah yeah does it just it doesn’t have give an Any Which Way a shaft’s got to for like for me to time it I’m struggling with this it’s got to

Have some torsional play or it’s going to have some sort of you know movement in the in the profile dynamically I just I don’t know I just think this is for people with way more in the locker than I do those are pretty decent yeah that one sounded really

Good yeah those are those are good fits all right f um WB 73x little bit shorter than standard length just how you normally play your fair Ray it was good um um and one click lower in the settings feels good let’s see that’s as good as I can hit it right

There pure right there go in be the right Club oh pilled it missed the left they look a big guide here but the strikes definitely gotten a little bit better I just got to take a little bit of the the speed out of it where I’m like I’m pushing too hard trying to

Trying to kind as I say hit the the really really good one looks really good oh Rascal what I’m used to for fairywood Mikey mhm like that feels like a like I’m that not pretty good in the end but it just feels like quite a lot of work

Yeah again we go back to that low torque conversation yeah if you’re playing something that you have a bit more feel to and this is that kind of 2×4 totally you know the other heavy hitter shafts out there you kind of you pull that feel away for someone like

Yourself yeah without a doubt all right F last but not least big dog driver these are going to get some love on tour I have no doubt about that feels like a tour shaft you know like this reminds me of my my sort of early or late Junior days early 20s when

I used to kind of get given a club that maybe once belonged to a tour player and I had no business playing it but I of I just wanted to give it a run I remember a few of those you were like oh X Flex

I’ll give that a try and you just feel like youan know all my stuff’s xlex but not this one this uh a little bit more just feels like it to me and some people probably hit it and go I think it’s smooth and it’s soft to me it just feels

Hefty one and done I just got to say I don’t know where that came from feels great performed amazing 167 292 12 at 22 jeez same as the first one yeah little flatter flight yeah it’s flat but it’s kind of got some it’s got some speed to it it does one

Six8 you give me The Round Up 168 112 at 22 102 ft in the air that is a missile money money flights I see where they’re coming out they’re like they’re definitely they’re middle balls for sure new driver shaft I don’t know you hang about it’s the high knuckle ball

H Ian Fraser finds new driver shaft for 2024 that one fast yeah 173 173 14 launch 1900 I mean that’s that’s pretty money right there that’s pretty money take a bundle of those all right miky boy fivewood lots of sort of stability in there lots of

Graphite in that to much effort yeah it was Heavy um I don’t normally launch my fivewood that low I think that’s a sign of of how kind of stable that one is for those of you with with more speed than me if if you’re kind of swinging you know fivewood in and around

110 112 you probably like it those of you who maybe want to play 5 with at 42 in rather than 42 and2 you might also like it uh 107 with the three-wood actually was quite enjoying the three-wood yeah I started to get a we Groove with it I

Wasn’t really kind of swinging like you know for the fences with it but I got I got some nice ones with it I think that those numbers are good 20 12 uh launch and just under 3,000 just jumped to the driver that thing was impressive well it

Kind of was it wasn’t and then it was It was kind of quite good and I thought that’s quite nice and then we hit a couple and it was like I was just I was working on a little kind of down swing fi and then all of a

Sudden appeared a beast From The Trenches it’s pretty good 173 been a while 173,00 spin 144 launch like check mark check mark check mark That’s a beast of a drive we can of you know see that moving forward we’ve just filmed to kind of start the Builder Bag series and I kind

Of thought that that uh 8° head and I probably needed to start you know not being as much up in it do we just need to f it and do it yeah cuz even if you want to round that down somewhat right if you want to kind

Of say that okay it’s not 34 it’s 300 right so there’s 15 sort of yards of of extra if you want want to kind of call it that 5% I’ll take it totally I mean I’ll take it even the ones that were in that like 167 165 still pretty consistently like

Straight in a nice tight dispersion and then when that speed jumped up sometimes you start to see that ball flare a little bit more left or a little bit more right I mean stayed online for you perfectly it did it did it was good I

Kind of wish I had a single Dot and I was just I was looking for path and angle of attack really more than and speed more than anything else I kind of wish I’d saw what was going on with with kind of all the other things to be

Honest but um you know we might we might poke around and see what’s going on with that next week when we’re back in testing some stable shafts they do the Whiteboard family sort of Legacy they do it justice really really stable um I don’t think they are as

Stiff as your Ventus blacks right okay I still think that’s a a mod stiffer but again I keep going back to the word Hefty M feels like you’re swinging a lump yeah it does a lump a lump of graphite but obviously it’s been designed that way with with that kind of

Denser fiber in the butt section you know it’s it’s designed for those of you who can and a void for those of you who can’t avoided no problem yeah yeah I’m happy to I’m happy that for everything other than really the driver to be in

The K category but um you know might be worth hanging about I just would love to try the 53x I saw that in the profile yeah I I definitely think like you said earlier this will be a tour product you see in more bags coming you know guys

Are obviously they’ve done their testing with drivers but if they are still tinkering this is a shaft you’ll start to see pop up a little bit more a competitor to that Ventus black um but yeah I mean like I said building them up cutting them you know the the saw was

Slowing down when you were cutting them like there was a bit of there was a bit of material to get through it so um definitely not for the U you know the soft smoothie hitters like myself um but uh but yeah I mean good good product

Like I said that driver was uh the driver was impressive in the end it was it was we got there we got the right one okay guys um I’m sure you’ve all played DM man at some point just just for a little walk down memory lane let us know

What you played were you an AA H Kylie Elma there’s so many over the years you know it seemed like every other year there was a new a new version let us know what ones you played I’ve certainly played my first year I know you have as

Well yeah good stuff all right guys hope you enjoyed this stay tuned for more and we’ll see you again Soon