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Gravity Golf – The Evolution And Revolution Of Golf Instruction By David Lee
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Always wanted a swing as smooth as Freddie Couples’? Want to putt like Ben Crenshaw? The secrets to the skills of these great players are in the book Gravity Golf: the Evolution and Revolution or Golf Instruction. Whether you are new to the sport, or just wanting to improve your swing, David Lee’s book will get you on track. It clearly explains the uniqueness of the “Gravity” Golf swing, and shows you the secrets of moving the ball more with your mass and less with your muscle. It is instructional and highly informative, but written in an anecdotal style. This is a must read!
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The Gravity Golf DVD instructional series was produced and developed by David Lee. The first half, How It Works, details an explanation of the “counter-fall,” the mechanism that allows…
Patrick –
Reading about and visualizing the type of mechanics that David describes is the fresh approach to a solid and consistent golf swing that everyone needs. His approach to the components of the golf swing are truly amazing, and the simplicity with which they can be executed is even more amazing.
Steve Cobb –
If you read Jack Nicklaus’ books about his swing technique and didn’t quite get it, take a look at Gravity Golf. It clarifies Jack’s ambiguities beautifully and fills in a lot of the physics in laymen’s terms. Best of all are the 4 effective practice drills for getting your subconsious brain to “program” the correct swing for you. My main swing thought nowadays is “don’t think”. (One caveat: The first 3 chapters are a tad lame. Don’t give up on it without reading chapters 4, 5, and 6 where the gold is.)
Bert Clark –
Gravity Golf really works!
This book is chock-full of information on the most energy-efficent way to swing a golf club. I’ve read this book many, many times and the more you read it and do the practice drills, the more you will understand the information that David Lee presents. Also, the video tapes that Lee sells from his infomercials and web site are helpful in understanding the training system.
Ernie Els and Fred Couples are “pure gravity” players. Many, many of the other top money winners on the PGA Tour are graviy players too. The problem is that most of these first-class golfers know how to swing using the Gravity Golf “mechanisim”, but these golfers have difficulty explaining how they hit the golf ball so far and straight with so little effort using this mechainism.
David Lee has developed the traing system to learn how to swing like Els and Couples.
This book must be re-read many, many times in conjunction with the practice drills. The video tapes that David Lee sells are helpful too. The best of all, go to a Gravity Golf school. Then, read and re-read the book and the Gravity Golf system will become crystal clear.
I belive that twenty years from now, this teaching methodology will be the “industry standard” way that golfers will trained–novice to Tour caliber. Many “copy-cat” golf instructors have already adopted many of the teaching techniques originally developed by David Lee.
Be prepared to allocate the time to hit many practice balls. Golf will become fun and practice, using the drills, will become informative. You will learn how and why good shots happen and why bad shots happen. The Gravity Golf system is not an instant miricle, but it is the “real thing”, when it comes to the golf swing.
I am a Gravity Golf believer!
G. Cifizzari –
This comes from a 40 year old overweight third year hacker, who couldnt break 100 with a hammer. In one month of doing the gravity golf drills i was shooting in the ninties (do to lack of short game) hitting the ball incredibly well. 4 people including a pro told me my swing looked better. It felt better my confidence is up i should be in the eighties in no time. I have tried every training aid and type of instruction there is and nothing comes close to the gravity system. Send me an e-mail for further updates.
Frank Spence –
Prior to the drills I could barely find 265 yards after the roll. Now I easily get 270 yards on the fly. People on the range stand there and gawk.
Oliver Hanagan –
About 7 years ago, I started playing golf by going through a traditional PGA professional. I was in high school at the time, so I also tried out for the high school golf time – not suprisingly, I didn’t make the team. That summer, I saw an infomercial on the Gravity Golf Videos and was immediately interested (good marketing). When I saw the book in a local golf equipment store, I bought it and applied it’s drills. The next year, I tried out for the golf team again and the other players and the coaches noticed how much better my swing was and how much farther the ball would travel on drives. While I was still far from being the best player on the team, I was most certainly the longest driver.
The meat and potatoes part of the book is most certainly the swing drills. The chapter before hand on the theory behind the “gravity swing” is very interesting but not necessary to gain something from the book. For somebody who wants to get straight to the heart, I’d recommend skipping the first few chapters and reading the “gravity swing” chapter and onward. In essence of learning the “gravity swing” is through proprioception (a.k.a. muscle memory). In a nutshell it means learning to swing a golf club through drills.
In the end, this method teaches a swing that has a lot of power but lacks control. Most of the time I can hit a predictable shot, but if I get off slightly the ball could end up anywhere (which is what kept me from doing well on the high school golf team). All in all, I’m a casual golfer and do enjoy it when I can hit a really long ball while playing a round to impress my collegues.
The book really has everything you need, and despite what the book may tell you, the videos are not necessary to gain a full understanding of the process of gravity golf. For somebody looking for distance at the expense of control and some bizzare looking drills, I’d recommend this book.
A. Sridharan –
When I read about these drills in this book at first, these drills didn’t appeal to me at all, but I still wanted to give it a try.
After working on these drill what a surprise I am hitting the ball more solid with less effort.
If you are serious about the game, definitely give these drills a try.
Conejo23 –
I had several clients who work with David Lee personally and they strongly recommended I learn more about Gravity Golf. Long story short, this is the real deal, folks. Remember those shots you’ve hit where the ball just rocketed off the club face but it felt absolutely effortless? David’s drills teach you how to do that consistently, by design, using the laws of physics.
The book can essentially be divided into two parts: how it works, and how to apply it. The first part is interesting to golf geeks like me, but the second part is the meat of the book. The foundation of Gravity Golf is the drills. THEY are your instructor. Do the drills consistently and your body will have no choice but to learn how to generate power appropriately, and then this will `infect’ your regular golf swing and you’ll be amazed at the difference.
One important note: I’d also recommend getting his DVDs. If you just work from the book, be advised that he no longer teaches the one footed drills but has replaced them with a crossfooted version.
second note: I have had the opportunity after watching the DVDs and reading the book to meet David Lee and spend some time with him one on one. He is an absolute gentleman and knows the golf swing in and out. Golf Magazine had it right when they named him one of the top 100 teachers in America.
Jeff Richardson –
This is the best system to learn the golf swing out there. The drills are so demanding that if you can get results with them, you will get better. I started using them 8 years ago and they took me from mid to high nineties to low seventies in about 12 months. Whenever I get away from them or try something else, ie. swing flatter or around a la Ben Hogan, my swing goes straight to hell, losing both accuracy and distance.
What will determine how much you get out of this system is how well you apply it. People look at me funny at the range when I’m doing the drills and ask a lot of questions. I play with local PGA teachers and they all raise comment. But I enjoy hitting ball well too much to worry about it. I hit the ball better standing on one leg than on two. I’ve even won money playing people standing on one leg, shooting high 70’s to mid eighties on 7000 plus golf courses. I’ve beaten many of the local PGA guys who ALL teach Hogan’s method. I didn’t even start playing golf until my mid twenties and these guys have played all their lives!
So apply the system and let your golf game do the talking. Don’t worry about what others think or say because this system will work if you apply it consistently.
Hogan –
You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth!!! The physical laws of nature never change and if you do not use gravity with a falling object (golf club) then you work against it. The swing is pure rotary when you allow gravity at it’s pace to get the club into position and on plane on on balance. This book is the best description of golf physics ever published. The drills are goofy looking but they work to release all the manipulations by the arms and hands in the downswing. Pure genius.
Doug S –
One drill, the left foot drill, has done wonders for my game. The first time I played after practicing with it for several days, I was knocking down pins all day.
Steven Shelby –
This is a great book. You will want this book as part of your golf library. If you want to really learn to swing the golf club, then read this book.
Charlie –
I’ve been golfing regularly for about eight years. With this book I’ve finally found what I’ve been looking for. After reading, learning and practicing the GRAVITY swing for one week, today I tested it on the course. After hitting shot after shot with pure contact, I felt a sensation of confidence over the ball which I’ve never experienced. It was an amazing feeling to hit the ball as far and sometimes farther than I normally do but with almost no effort and exertion. I truly believe that in the upcoming weeks and months after doing the drills and becoming more proficient in this new swing, I will have a more powerful and consistent swing than ever before. Now, if you’re buying this book, you’re probably trying to improve your full swing. On the last hole of my round today, I hit a fifty yard pitch to within two feet for a birdie to win by one stroke! Your chipping and especially your pitching will dramatically improve because the same principles apply! David Lee deserves all the praise in the world for this contribution and I don’t understand how he’s not recognised as the top instructor of the sport. I’ve read over fifteen instuctional books on golf but this is the ONE! I wish it hadn’t taken me this long to find this book, but now I’ve truely found the secret to golf.
Chris Downing –
I am very surprised there are so many USA reviews and mine is the first in the UK, especially since this book was published nearly twenty years ago. If you came to this book from reading stuff on the web or David Lee’s videos on YouTube you’ll be familiar with his unusual swing drills involving one arm or one leg – or even crossed legs! The drills are all about learning to swing a golf club through the ball with the minimum of effort and the maximum effect and strike accuracy. I guess it doesn’t take a genius to work out that if you practice hitting a golf ball with these difficult (at first) drills, then hitting it with both hands and both feet apart will be easy. But that was the main point for me. I’d tried one hand drills before – but nothing as structured and well thought through as these drills.
We are fairly conservative lot, golfers. So you might want to try these drills well away from your clubmates and other golfers because you’ll surely generate some interest when you start driving balls with one hand and you legs crossed! But the drills really do work and are a great diagnostics tool to identify what is wrong and needs work. But at least with David Lee’s methodolgy you can take a look at the book and understand what drill you should be working on. This stuff will have a big effect on how you swing a club. Only your attitude to doing drills like David’s will hold you back.
Don’t expect to be joined by a whole lot of fellow club members doing these drills en masse on the practice ground – you need to be tough skinned to be seen doing this stuff. But on route to a single figure handicap, do you really care? David Lee talks about golfers going from beginner to single figures in a year – so it works for some players. Check out Gravity Golf’s videos as well – although lots of stuff is already circulating on the web.
There is also some very interesting work by Mike Hebron, both how to learn and another book on learning techniques. After all, there have to be ways of speeding up how golf is learnt just to club level. (?)
Louis Viola –
If you want to learn to swing a golf club without worrying about a ton of things or have a mental checklist this is the way to go. Unlike any other instructional material, teaches the swing and not positions that bog you down. If you practice using the drills you will gain both distance and accuracy.
Håkan Björklund –
Amazing book. David Lee explains each part of the ideal golf swing and provide practical drills to achieve that natural and relaxed golf swing. Just came from the driving range now, and I love these drills!
Joey Nineron –
While on the tour in the early 70’s, David Lee was fascinated by the different ball flight and sound at impact he observed while watching players such as Nicklaus and Trevino. David was trained as an upperbody player, and was always fighting the hook. He spent hours watching Jack and trying to figure out what Jack and some others were doing differently. When he asked them about their technique, he didn’t know if they just didn’t want to tell him or as he later found out, they just couldn’t explain it.
He later discovered what made these effortless swings work. A severe wrist injury derailed his career before he could put his new swing into play on the tour. He spent decades learning all about the physics of a perfect gravity aided swing. On top of that, David focused on what made the learning process of an effortless golf swing so difficult and evasive. He developed dozens of drills over the years, which he has refined to just a few most effective ones, plus their many possible combinations.
David observed that even on the tour, most players introduce some applied force which throws off the track, and must be compensated for in some way. Only a few players had stumbled upon a pure tension-free swing. Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Freddie Couples, Payne Stewart, and Steve Elkington are some examples. The physics perfect swing is one where all the muscles, joints and bones work in perfect harmony without introducing any applied force from the upperbody, or driving from the rear leg. The swing has passive and tension-free hands, arms and shoulders. It is powered completely from WITHIN the pivotal axis of the target side of the body, working with gravity in three key areas. Passive arms and club are whip-slung much as a hammer-thrower, or soccer style place-kicker in american football moves. Gravity allows the body to act as a “counterfall” to the weight and force of the freely swinging passive arms and club. The result is a club path that is consistent.
There is no lift of the arms in the backswing, the initial one-piece “heave” from the body core allows all tension to leave the arms and just float to the top. Here, as the arms stall, they drop by gravity, and are picked up by the turn and whip-slung through impact.
There are more details to this swing, but the important point to remember is that you can’t learn it through positional instruction. It’s performance is too subtle to be learned cognitively, even when you fully understand the physics of how it works. It can only be learned in the drills. By making the drills so demanding in their requirements, in order to strike the ball with any skill, the brain figures out how to do it. The things that don’t work in the drills, don’t feel right, and they can be eliminated. This without you fully realizing how.
The beauty of the drills is that the learning process is speeded greatly. A person who has never touched a golf club in his life, if they have the time and access to the balls, can develope to a par level player in as little as a year.
David Lee’s method for swinging the golf club, and the amazing process he developed for learning it, should by now have produced a paradigm shift, a true widespread “revolution in golf instruction.” Although David was at one time listed among Golf Magazine’s top 100 instructors, for various reasons, much of golf instruction is still done in a paint-by-numbers or connect-the-dots fashion. The swing is a dynamic whole, and should be learned that way.
Most people reach a level in their development, and then can’t improve their swing, no matter how much they practice. They simply further ingrain their compensations. Many golfers have played golf for over 50 years, and still have no idea how to properly swing a golf club. David Lee’s teaching system can enable such players to eliminate their ingrained swing errors, and finally reach a tension free physics perfect swing! I know of nothing like it. (And I have dozens and dozens of golf instruction books and videos. Some are better than others, but only David Lee has solved the entire puzzle.)
It is my firm conviction that David Lee is the top golf instructor in the history of golf, and his method for learning the swing is second to none. It is the only one that can give ANYONE a physics perfect swing!
Bill –
By far the best golf book I have ever read. If you do the drills as he instructs it will solve most of your swing compensations.
John Perry –
It works for two reasons – (1) The “gravity assisted rotary method” follows the laws of motion perfectly, both according to physics and physiology, and (2) the scientifically based “limiting drills” enable/force your subconscious mind to teach you automatically.
It’s nearly too good to be true; I say nearly because you must muster the courage and patience to do the unique drills until they work – and they definitely will work, ten to fifteen times faster than the traditional [connect the dot] methods, when the traditional methods work at all. [Try 12 to 18 months versus 5 to ten years to play par golf – for most reasonably well coordinated students]
The Gravity Golf/Rotary Mass Method is light years ahead of any other system of instruction. It is absolutely amazing.
JOHN
P.S. The DVD sequel updates some drills for even easier and quicker learning. For example, the “one-footed” drill, difficult for the physically challenged,is replaced by an equally effective “cross-footed” drill
John –
More progress in 2 days then last 30 days. Eliminated the violence of my swing, now very smooth and fluid. Not as much distance as my previous violent swing, but am expecting distance to improve over the months. Striking consistency has definitely improved, am more confident I am going to hit the ball solidly. Much easier on my older body. Very good descriptions of the technique, David Lee is a natural communicator. Watch the videos.
Lewis –
Great book
Arturo Galeano –
I needed this! Love it!
Rick –
I’ve been wanting this book for a long time, finally decided to get it and I love it.
Katy –
Hubby’s go-to golf book
Daniel Webb –
This and only this will allow you to hit the ball a considerable distance as you age. Lee is a very intelligent man, explaining clearly what virtually no one else has recognized as essential in the best golf swing. He actually explains how Nicholas was able to hit it so far. It wasn’t because he was beefy.
Timothy R. –
Absolutely the best approach to golf out there. Most golf books promise some “new” swing method or model; nearly all golf instruction is based the age old model of learning positions and described “feelings” and then “connecting the dots” to hit all the positions during a rehearsal swing at slow speed and eventually working up to full speed.
As David Lee points out and many pros used to trust in, the body, brain and spinal cord already have the hardwiring and software to swing a club effectively just as an 8 year old little league outfielder can throw a ball to home plate without thinking about stack and tilt, spine angles, holding lag, blah blah blah. The body does know how to throw things powerfully without falling over if you let it organize itself effectively.
All golf should be taught the way this book does, a series of challenging balance drills that challenge the nervous system to coordinate and organize holistically to achieve powerful movement in balance. That is what all great athletic movement is.
Think about this: Jack Nicklaus said you can never release the club too early. David Duval demonstrated trying to actually cast the club from the top of the swing (yet film shows him laying the shaft off in classic Hogan manner). Therein lies the problem with conventional golf teaching. What you see on film is only a vapor trail of what the golfer actually did muscularly. In a high speed swing with the extra equal-but-opposite forces occurring due to acceleration and inertia, one often has to engage muscle in ways very different than in achieving the same “look” on a slow speed rehearsal. As Hogan said, one should take all of the conventional ideas about what one should do in a golf swing and try to do the exact opposite.
This is the point. You can’t link up static “positions” in slow speed rehearsal and then expect the same muscular efforts to achieve those positions once at high speed. All of the forces change. Nothing is the same in terms of forces and counter forces via Newton’s laws.
Doing the drills in this book reawakens all of your hardwired and pre-programmed neurological circuits so that the body initiates Movement protocols not static Positions. Golf is movement and therefore neurology, not engineering and mechanics. Tiger knew more about hitting the golf ball as a 6 years old swinging a heavy persimmon driver than he does now. Why? Because he has gotten so distracted by the mechanics he forgot all the neurology his body already instinctively knew.
The difference between great golfers and mediocre ones is the ability to access and initiate athletic patterns the body was born with. No amount of mechanics can ever replace that. If you want to go from mediocre to outstanding, then use the drills in this book to discover the natural neural programs that are inherent in all great golfers, baseball pitchers, batters, tennis pros, javelin throwers, and even that little league kid in right field throwing a perfect out to home plate. Not thinking and move.
EG Evans –
I came across David Lee and his teaching through Youtube. He has a great way of explaining the golf swing. His putting lessons are the BEST I have ever found. I bought one of his putters and put the lessons into practice and cut my putts BY HALF! Yes, this is an older work – yet that does not make it invaluable. What it does is make it less expensive! What do you want – an expensive library, or a better golf game? David Lee’s methods work!
J. C. Hutter –
David Lee knows how to teach golf. If you want to learn golf, read it. I read his book and saw the videos over this winter and have done the drills. This spring, my first time on the course I had a huge improvement in distance and accuracy. I was told of David Lee by my local golf pro Jim Estes. Estes recommends these books and videos and uses them to help injured Iraq War vets to learn how to golf using David Lee’s methods. Some of the vets golf fairly well, and likely break 80-90 even with missing arms or legs. I found that you need to look at both the book and video to understand what David Lee is doing, since the video does not give a clear indication of the counterfall and other terms used by Lee. I read other books by Pelz, Haney, Harmon, and also the Inner Game of Golf, these books help Also, the Golf Fix with Michael Breed helps. But all these sources are missing the essential elements Lee has discovered and put into words. You will be unlikely to implement what they are describing unless you read Lee. After Lee, and doing some of his drills, all of the great technical info from other sources will start to make sense. Lee teaches your vestibular system to remove effort from the hands and arms in the swing and use the core and shoulders, doing this the club automatically stays on-plane and you avoid the common casting faults.
Jack –
I recently purchased a golf pressure matt. Even though I completed certification training for the matt, I still needed to find practical techniques to employ when using the matt – because matt came with no instructions.
So far, ideas presented in the Gravity Golf book are being validated through the use of the pressure matt. This book makes it fun using my newly purchased matt.
I am certain that by applying the “fundamental truths” – outlined this book will result in the improvement of my golf’s skills. I am glad that I purchased this book.
Richard Smithson –
After reading and trying some of the drills found myself hitting the ball with very little effort,this will free you up and finally let go . Hit the ball like the pros. I have been golfing since the early 70’s with no golf instruction and managed to play to a 10 handicap with a power fade. I adopted the Ben Hogan 5 lessons and found no improvement,but now I started fighting the hook and found it extremely hard to fade the golf ball, my handicap crept up to 15. I was shaken,I could easily shoot 80 to 87 on a bad day and found myself 3 putting a lot. After 5 lessons I was always in the 90’s and developed a good putting and chipping routine but was losing so many shots to hooking the ball. I read David’s book and golfed this morning and shot 84 like nothing. I did hit a few hook shots but nowhere near what I usually did and no penalty strokes. If you have hit a wall and need a new way to find your swing give it a try. Effortless power is in all of us you just need the keys to unlock the door so you can walk in. Cheers.
Pete O’Rourke –
Although the occasional sentence was somewhat confusing, this book was well written, clear, concise, with very good visuals, from the About the Author, the Introduction, the Foreword, chapters 1-6 could easily revisit at a later date, could be priced lower, it rate’s 5 stars.