Ok, fine. I'll make one (1) offensive comment first, one (1) Deep Philosophical comment, and one (1) note of my own shortcomings.
First--what happened? Did Clyde forget to genuflect?
Second--to repeat something oft noted, rather than trying to shorten someone else's line--lengthen your own.
Third--I didn't look at either clip, because a) didn't feel like waiting for them to load, b) don't care about the clips, c) have had chance to catch Mr. Tatum close up.
Now, back to reality. Clyde posted a link to Mr. Tatum's, "Tip of the Week," along with a general, "damn, look at that," comment. Several posters noted either a) how much they liked the clip, b) their difficulty getting it to load, c) how much they liked the website. Thereupon followed several comments of the, "Mr. Mills does this better, and anyway the website sucks," variety.
Thereafter followed some commentary, including mine, about the difficulty of applying easy notions of, "more sophisticated," to a video clip.
One more comment in that line: I've personally seen (and felt) Mr. Tatum, teaching a range of options in, "Parting Wings," everything from an elongated loop (sometimes taught to relative novices) to a much, much shorter trajectory for the right hand. Which is best? Which "most sophisticated?" It depends.
This fascination with the cleverest and fanciest is really what's at issue, I think. As long as you think the latest and niftiest is the mostest, you'll miss the point. It resembles the mistake of supposing "gaseous," to be necessarily superior to, "solid." It resembles the error of rushing forward to get to the good stuff in your training, as though Long 7 were inherently superior to a good inward block--or even more-complex, for that matter.
As for courtesy--well, you are proud of your instructor, and your training. Probably, you should be. People like Clyde and myself are proud of our instructor, and our training. Probably, we should be.
Sheesh anyways.
Maybe next time, some folks could try to understand what they're seeing and pay attention to the reasons for it, rather than nattering about how superior they fantasize something else they're seeing is.
I can't speak for Mr. Mills, obviously. But I can damn well tell you unequivocally that if Mr. Tatum's doing something we don't recognize on this or any other technique, it would behoove us all to shaddup and try to understand what's going on, remembering that, "any sufficiently-advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Then, ya wanna attack, great. But first...
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