Happy Holidays From The Gravity Golf Team in Orlando, Florida

Dear Gravity Golfer,


We wanted to take a minute and wish everyone the merriest Christmas holiday and a very Happy New Year. We’re looking forward to a great 2014 in our new teaching home at Orange County National Golf Center in Orlando, Florida. The facilities are great here for teaching and playing. OCN has two beautiful courses where they’ve hosted the finals of the tour qualifying school several times and they have the largest driving range in the world along with a great practice course. The many attractions of Orlando are all nearby and add up to make this town a pretty jumpin’ joint. Anyone who can’t find something here to entertain themselves or their family, is in serious trouble.


Not to be making excuses, but our move to Florida has been exhausting. We will, however, be back on schedule with our twice-monthly newsletters and tips from our latest research and drill developments. You are invited to write us with suggestions on any subject you would like to see covered more thoroughly. We are very interested in the progress that each of our students is making and encourage you to keep us posted on how you’re coming along. Hopefully, you’ll make some good New Year’s resolutions about your game for the upcoming season that will result in that handicap going down.


Daniel and I have been working hard on the new Gravity Golf Curriculum. The writing of it is coming close to completion and we will soon be starting the filming. It is being written with beginner, intermediate, and advanced sections, and will have accompanying video for each lesson. This will be a great adjunct to our previous information, as it contains all of our new drills and some better ways of explaining things.


If your travel plans for the new year include a trip to Orlando, we will be honored if you pay us a visit. Have a great holiday season, and we look forward to hearing from you soon.


Our best,

David, Daniel, and Crickett Lee
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Right Elbow In The Golf Swing - By Gravity Golf Instructor Andrew Waple in Orlando Florida

Last week we spent several days at Orange County National working with Andrew Waple, one of our very advanced professional students who teaches near Manchester, England. Andy is a very fine, certified, Gravity Golf instructor, and an excellent player with a great swing. Anyone in Europe who wishes to learn the Gravity system, would enjoy working with Andy, either one-on-one or in a school. He is very articulate, easy going, and knows the golf swing inside and out. If you wish to contact Andy, his web-site is: www.andrewwaplegolf.co.uk




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The Arc Angel Putter - Created by David Lee of Gravity Golf in Orlando Florida

“Arc Angel” Putters


Golfers that understand and believe in the physics of putting on the “arc” instead of putting down the “line” should study the design and principles of my new “Arc Angel” putter. It is the fourth generation of putters that I’ve designed specifically to putt on the arc and this one is a gem.


Why do I keep building new designs – is it a ploy to sell more putters?  That answer might seem logical, but the reality is that until you build a prototype and go out and putt with it, it is impossible to know what the finished product is going to feel like.  My intention, like with most fanatic club designers, is to build a golf putter that makes everything – which we all know is unlikely to happen, but the goal remains steadfast.  In our less than ideal world, the best objective is to have a putter that rides the body’s natural rotation and feels as if it actually is an extension of you.  It is very important that the lie angle of the club, the amount of “trap” in the putter face, the overall weight, the balance, and the shaft are perfect – not to mention that the “look” of it “fits” your eye.  If these variables are correct, the attack path of the putter will be ideal, the ball will leave the putter face very slightly airborne so that it is not driven into the ground, and the tangent line of the putt to the arc of the stroke will be incredibly predictable.  The ball will roll as smoothly as you can imagine, with no bounce as it makes its journey to the hole, and the number of putts that you make will increase significantly.


When a player putts on the arc, over a single axis (one leg), more body mass goes against the ball than with a “down-line” stroke.  Increased body mass applied to the ball at impact, diminishes the required effort from the shoulders and arms, the club-head moves slower to the ball, and the hands are left free to provide feel only, not power.  The more you can separate power and “touch,” the more touch you are going to have.  Putting on the arc will improve your feel for distance control and the number three putts (that ruin your score) will diminish dramatically.


There is a great deal of science involved in the proper application of power when hitting a putt, just as there is in the design of the tools with which to do it.  If you wish to become a great putter, study our golf DVD entitled “Putting on the Arc.”  It will give you insight into some of the myths about this mysterious and complex facet of the game, as well as providing a pathway for you to become a super putter.  Oh, by the way, gets your hands on an Arc Angel putter and feel the ball roll like you’ve never felt it before.

Daniel Lee
Director of Gravity Golf Inc.

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360 Degrees of Balance - "Center Of Gravity" - Golf Instruction by Daniel Lee in Orlando Florida

When I think of athletes who have the best balance, surfers are the first that come to mind. This is because they have the best sense of equilibrium of any individuals I have met.

The golf swing involves throwing a significant amount of weight at high speeds around your body while trying to maintain balance as much as possible. If the person swinging is pulled off balance, or off plane (the swing path with the ball), the path will no longer match up to the intended direction. Here is an important question to ask yourself that will help you understand how balance is effecting you:

It is of high importance to grasp this concept.*

Question

"What is the first thing that happens when weight pulls on something?"

Answer

"It moves it. All the weight that you have on the front of your body that is moving in front of your precise "center of balance" aka "center of gravity" is going to pull you when you start moving it." 

Balance is created when the amount of weight and force pulling you in one direction can be equally opposed, by being pulled, pushed, shoved or even falling in the opposite direction before it moves ("Counter-Fall"). If you can grasp this concept you can figure out everything in your swing that is based on understanding balance.

Getting used to the idea of how we are able to balance ourselves is not hard to figure out. Try standing on one foot: by doing so you are putting all of your weight over the leg you are standing on at impact (left foot for a "right handed player"). How long can you stand there? Can you turn both directions without falling over? Do you think the leg would support you if you were swinging a club?

A great golf swing is only accomplished when the lower body fully clears at impact. "Every" great player achieves the same thing. What you are seeing is they have opposed the weight pulling on them from the front side of their body, with enough force in the opposite direction to rotate.



You are weak when you are turning! We all are weak when turning, just try hooking arms with a friend and then try to turn in the other direction. If you fall off balance in the swing when you have two feet on the ground, you won't become aware of it until you are in the down-swing and fighting for stability. You may not fall over, but your body will lock up in an effort to save your balance. Then you are left with a golf swing that has only the upper body moving.

To be a great player you must learn how to balance both sides of your body. There are ways to do this, and, regardless of your physical ability - you can strengthen your balance! Recently I have begun pushing myself to become proficient at hitting multiple drivers off one foot, first with my heel off the ground and then on the next shot with my toes off of the ground throughout the entire swing. While this is challenging and takes a deal of athleticism, it is teaching me to become more sensitive and better equipped at maintaining my balance. Regardless of your swing quality, becoming better balanced will strengthen your game.

The Gravity Golf drills in their most basic form, threaten your balance and make you sensitive to weaknesses in technique. If 1 footers are too strenuous,  try the  cross footed drills. They are still very  demanding, but less stressful physically.



Please leave you comments below and I will respond to as timely as possible. All the best and enjoy yourself.

Daniel Lee
Director of Gravity Golf Inc.


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Learning To Read Greens - "Start by Rolling the Ball With Your Hand" by David Lee in Orlando Florida

This is the first tip in a short series on how to "read" greens - all of which can be of significant benefit toward lowering your scores.  To become a great player, one needs to master every facet of the game, but none more so than putting.  One of the most important issues to be dealt with on the journey to becoming an above average or super putter, lies in your ability to read greens.  It takes a considerable level of "want to," and a good deal of patience to learn all the nuances involved in properly reading greens, but the strokes that vanish from your scorecard will be well worth the effort.

My first suggestion is to take a dozen or so golf balls in a plastic bag or small bucket (they are going to get wet) and to walk around your course early in the morning before they cut the greens.  The dew will be covering the ground at that time of day and yesterday's cup will still be somewhere on the green even if the flag-sticks have not been put out yet.  Walk the entire circumference of the green and every ten or fifteen feet, kneel at the edge of the green and roll a ball to the hole with your hand.  The ball will leave a track through the dew on its way to the hole and you can study the effect of slope and gravity on the ball-path.  You can also see how much the dew-line changes as you vary the ball-speed.  Pay attention to whether or not the actual track that the ball leaves in the dew as it rolls across the green, matches the break you saw in your mind before you rolled it.  Obviously, the dew will not be there when you're playing golf, but you'll be amazed at how much this exercise will help in your ability to properly anticipate the break and speed when you are putting for real.

In the next segment, we will discuss the effect that the "grain" of the grass has on the ball-speed and break, and why reading it properly is a major factor in whether your ball goes in the hole or barely misses.

David Lee
President, Gravity Golf, Inc.

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Aiming For Success - Reading Greens Like The Pros by Andrew Waple

When it comes to new golfing technologies, whether it is new training aids or coaching philosophies I always try to understand before either getting involved in the hype or dismissing it as just another fad. 

However, there has been so much positive publicity about AimPoint®, the success many tour players are having with it, and the fact that the R&A are even trying to ban it, it inevitably caught my attention. Reading greens has always been a little bit of a mystery, more of an art than an exact science.  Reading a green takes experience and practice but neither of these guarantees that you will get it right each and every time. AimPoint® takes the art out of putting, removing the unknown factor.  For some it will be seen as technology taking over the game just like the changes to drivers and the golf ball, for others a chance to use technology to improve their putting.

My thinking is could this be the system that complements the Gravity short game drills?  In my experience beginners can often become technically competent in a short amount of time on the greens, yet reading the slope and actually holing putts can take years. So could this system not only help established players hole more putts, but also allow total beginners with little experience on greens make perfect reads each and every time?  I decided to put Aimpoint® to the test myself… The AimPoint® session started with our instructor Jamie explaining that you only need to know 3 pieces of information to find the perfect line for a putt…

1) the length of the putt
2) the slope of the putt and slope direction
3) the speed of the greens…..and armed with your AimPoint® chart you cannot miss.

Here is how it went from there:

1) We set about learning how to judge the length of our putts the AimPoint® way, this was very simple to pick up and it was amazing how accurate you could be after just a few minutes.

2) The next piece to the puzzle was judging the slope - rather than standing behind the ball, we were taught to stand in the middle of the putt and calculate the slope with our feet in 1, 2 3 or 4% gradients.  This was not as easy as judging the distance but something over time that would become second nature.

3) Now with the slope measurement sorted, as well as the length of the putt and the speed of the greens (stimp 8 at Woburn), using the AimPoint® chart was a doddle. 

This gives you a reading of how many inches to aim to the right or left of the hole.  The next step is to simply aim at that point and hit your ball 9 inches past the hole.  If you do this correctly the ball will roll in.

I would recommend the AimPoint® system to any golfer who is looking to improve.  I have used the system whilst playing this year and I can honestly say I have never holed out as well.  Judging the slope is by far the most difficult part of the process, however compared to hitting a golf shot long and straight with little effort its not really that tough.

As with anything to do with putting the line is just half of the story.  Hit the ball at the hole with more than 9 inches of pace and it will miss high, less than 9 inches and it will miss low.  Its crucial that you are able to control the speed of your ball on the green, therefore I think the AimPoint® system and the Gravity short game drills are the best way to hole more putts.

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The Natural State Of The Golf Swing by Daniel Lee in Orlando Florida

A reaction in body language after your is an instant change in tension levels. The first 3 seconds after impact is where you can learn the most about your swing and your game. There is a process that feeds from your thoughts, to emotion, to tension and then to reaction. Your awareness leads to controlling tension, heart rate, thoughts and energy levels which implement the physics of the golf swing. 

A natural state of tension is relaxed. The original nature of the body as well as the golf swing is in a relaxed form with the absence of stress,  anger, anxiety and in turn is a place of awareness,  peaceful,  focused,  rhythmic,  confidence. A player that has found the "zone" as it has been loosely called by many people surrounding the game, are in an aggressive state.  True aggression comes with clarity and purpose. Aggression is typically viewed as a a hit impulse with a large amount of effort, that is not what is implied here, but rather a complete abandonment of tension from the initiation of the swing through your impact zone. For instance if you were a pitcher and you saw someone steeling second base, there is no time to think about your mechanics and you must immediately jump into action from a previous relaxed state with pure focus on getting the ball to second base before the runner.  There is so much time in golf to think that we don't realize what an effect it is having on our movements.

The paradox that we run into when trying to improve ourselves and our golf game is that we have to first be conscious of the things we want to change, which usually incurs a great deal of thought to begin with. Now the trick lies in being able to turn that off before you get to the 1st tee where your sole objective is to simply get the ball in the hole in as few shots as possible. If you listen to Sir Nick Faldo or Johnny Miller next time there is a big tournament, you will probably hear them referring to whomever the leader coming down the stretch is, by saying that he has controlled his emotions extremely well throughout the tournament. This has been approached countless ways by sports psychologist as well as in every therapy session that has probably ever been given. Recently though I've come across a very practical way to help give you awareness as to how close to the "zone" you are, as well as how to control it. This new science is called emWave2 used by a group based out of California called Heart Math ( heartmath.com ) that have worked with many players on the PGA as well as plethora of top level athletes. 

It is my pursuit to help those with the desire to gain the ability to consistently find what hooked them on the game in the first place, that shot that feels like "nothing" yet is one of the purest things they have ever experienced. We are in this together, let's enjoy it!

Daniel Lee
Director of Gravity Golf Inc.

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"The Evolution & Revolution on Golf Instruction"

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