My experience with slip tip ( only Riffe Ice Pick so far ) is that if you hit a big fish capable of fast burst speed, the shaft or the adaptor will still have a chance at bending. This is especially true if you hit that fish from sideway or 90 degrees to the direction of the fleeing fish. Pure water force.
If you hit a fish like grouper ( very big ones ) with a thick skull and the skull is where you hit, the shaft still can get bent even though grouper is a slower fish.
Slip tip only works well when the slip tip has fallen off its adaptor but if you hit something very hard on the fish ( skull & gill plates ), the shaft also get embedded as such for a while it does not detach the slip tip yet.......that's when it will get bend.
Those shafts & adaptors I bent are for 3/8" (9.5mm) shaft, not the thinner 5/16" (8mm) or 9/32" (7mm).
Slip tip can break too but in my cases, it is only the skirt, not mid body......not yet.
That Slip Tip over the Euro shaft is sweet and simple looking.....very nice.
