Sklz Gyro Swing Review

SKLZ Gyro Swing

Grade: B+
Teacher’s Comments: A good product, but too expensvie for most golfers.

At their core, all swing trainers are the same. Through mechanical means, they seek to build muscle memory of a proper golf swing. Some help with release, others with keeping the club on plane, with takeaway, or transition.

The Gyroswing, however, actually manages to doo all of those things. It’s an amazingly clever, and highly effective invention.

The club looks like a toy driver. It’s about the length of a sand wedge, with a driver head attached. One side of the shaft is painted yellow to help players visually keep the club on plane. The clear grip has marks to help you get your hand placement correct.

But that’s just icing. The cake is that inside the driver’s head is a battery powered gyroscope. It’s fitted in such a way that it forces your swing into perfect golf form.

It’s an interesting sensation. If you take the club back off plane, the gyroscope twists, letting you know immediately that you’re off. Come over the top, and you feel it. Get off plane on the downswing and the clubhead resists. At the point of release, you can feel the gyroscope turning your hands over. If you try to chicken-wing your finish, the gyroscope resists.

In short, it helps you build muscle memory of a solid golf swing from start to finish.

The club comes with a set of rechargable batteries and a small recharging unit. It’s needed. The gyroscope eats a lot of power.

My one complaint with the system is that after using it for a few minutes, my hands get tired. They actually begin to physically qche. I think that has to do with vibrations being transmitted from the gyroscope. But then, I don’t think that you’re necessarily supposed to work with it for more than a few minutes at a time.

I’ve been using the Gyroswing for a couple of weeks now and believe that it’s paid dividends. While I haven’t gained any distance, I have seen more consistent ball striking. In my last 18, I had just one mishit—a fat shot in a swampy area with a wedge.For me, that’s a real improvement.

I’m going to give a cautions recommentation to this onel. What it does is extraordinary. But you have to be willing to (literally) pay the price.