What it really DEPENDS on....
Is the THESIS of Mike's observation.
And that THESIS is this:
Talk is cheap.
For example:
Talk about who can "out teach" who.
Talk about Who can "out play" who.
Talk about Who can "hit it better" than who.
Mike Finney once saw a really nice guy, who really knew The Golfing Machine
text, finally hit some balls after just "reading" the nice guy talk about the golf swing for a couple of years.
It wasn't pretty.
Now, Sonic Doom (and whatever your real name is--don't you just hate screennames), this does not mean that that particular person couldn't
teach or
talk about the swing because he obviously couldn't
DO it. George Hibbard, bless his heart, has one of his less than pretty swings plastered all over the internet for all to vomit to, but I would bet hard cash that he can teach a
lot better than he could make whatever particular swing he was trying to make that day.
Mike Finney
knows this.
But--and Mike can correct me if I am wrong--what Mike was talking about was AT WHAT LEVEL OF THE CONVERSATION SOME PEOPLE NEED TO GET THE HECK OUT OF THE WAY.
For example, George Hibbard is not any older or anymore "broken down" (so to speak) than our friend Don Villavaso. When Donald plays golf these days, he doesn't putt, because he can't walk to and from the greens. Having said that, Don's 2006 golf swing makes him look like Carlos Franco compared to George. Don has also given 1000's more lessons than George. Don has also gone to more seminars, had more personal access to guys like Ben Doyle and myself, and also taught in a more fiercely competitive situation than George.
[note: I am NOT picking on George, I am using him as an example]
The point to all of this is simple, in a debate about what REALLY WORKS in the Golf Swing, George needs to step aside if Don says something is so. Well, George can
question it, he questions me all the time, but at some point, standing toe-to-toe with Don on a point about golf, well, folks, Don wins. Same as Donald vs. Ben Doyle.
Sorta like ME arguing with TIGER about what works in Putting.
Sometimes, a man needs to know his limitations.
There is LOTS of talk on this internet, and in the real world. Proof is entirely another matter.
It WAS EASY for some folks to CLAIM they out taught some other folks once at a golf school. The PROOF of who out taught WHO or didn't, was all caught on VIDEO. The video never surfaced for one reason. It simply did not show what was so easy to claim in WORDS.
That's why no one is EVER interested in my idea of a Golf Swing Debate Challenge. Or "Teach Off."
Because it is much easier to TALK then to show up and produce.
What Mike wasn't saying is that you CAN'T LEARN from the internet or Video. Surely you can.
But, unless you can
put up, sometimes you ought to
shut up.
