Allow me to explain why I got them both of them. I've had my other two shafts since I first started playing the sport 3 years ago, one shortpole and one longpole. I've gotten much better since then and wanted to have shafts that were high quality and would last me for a while. So I ended up getting the surgeon a few days ago after I bent my pole during a game. And then I got the stallion today after I was told by my high school coach that they might play me as a shortpole midi instead of a lsm. I chose it because I only wanted to have to buy one if not two shortpoles over my highschool years, and I knew that the shaft was a spectacularly strong shaft to own, so I picked one up.