GEA- Yes, it's worth it to post there
 

I am EXACTLY in the same boat as another poster- for me as well, GEA came first, and thanks to Duke Nasty's post, I started to become curious about this "TGM-Yoda" stuff. My God, like the other poster, I TOO bought GH's book, and also scrapped it after reading it. Our similarities are uncanny. Anyhoo, my point is: no GEA = no TGM (for me, and probably many others). Ted should keep right on posting, and have fun with the detractors. And for us sideline dwellers, what is better than a dust-up between our very own "Sultan of Swat" and the "Sultan of Senility" anyway? I mean, at the very least, it's great theater, and people with any common sense can judge Ted/Yoda/TGM's merits on their own. I say post like hell on the GEA, CStanford and IMPERFECTIMPACT notwithstanding.

Yep...
 

I agree, Ted should keep on posting there(but of course, that's his decision). He is a well of knowledge. But, I just feel like smackin' somebody when the trolls start the personal attacks.

This says a lot about why Pingboy reacted the way he did.

I just saw that, too. I was tempted to ask him about the sponsorship thing, but figured it was better to leave it alone.

Again I ask...
 

Hibbard is a sponsor... that explains why Derek allowed all the baiting by George. It also explains why the old windbag will be allowed to say pretty much whatever he wants. I've put GH on ignore... his posts are too lengthy and never say anything (sounds like a book I read by him also). But I still doubt I'll go back there. It is a waste of my time and I just can't see the reason.......

Best part of that place are the equipment discussions, but I've noticed that they've fallen behind lately and other Web sites pick stuff up earlier.

please let them know that...
 

I am or was YodaSolo. Before I go any further, can someone please tell them (I have repeatedly said this myself but people don’t read the whole post) that I am NOT Lynn Blake. I do not want to besmirch Lynn’s good name. So someone please let them know that- ASAP !!

For the record since my post was removed and it seems Pingboy is emailing it to anyone on his side and his good friend and paying advertiser George Hibbard. I told no lies about George and as posts go- was not all that scathing.

I called George an old man and asked if he turned 70 yet (he is 74) because he whines like one. If you read my first post in that thread, I said that I was glad he finally recognized that Homer’s delayed Hip Turn (10-14-B and 10-15-B and I never post sections to the general public) was Austin’s Compound Hip motion. In the past it outraged him that anything Austin could be explained with Homer’s book. He was very friendly but it was odd that he was and said that it was the compound pivot. I was kinda shocked.

I wrote Ted and said that I was hesitant to reply to Hib because he is a TGM hater and baits and attacks after a few posts and when trapped will always use the lingo card that no body can understand the book. This is exactly what happened here. I didn’t follow my own advice.

On other forums in years past I, thinking he was sincere about understanding the book, offered to help explain, translate and guide him through sections. He always told me he knows the book just fine- and he does know some things.

On FGI, he and Boris, another TGM hater (and I think took a lesson from Lynn to boot) shut down the instruction forum for a while. He mentioned Boris in his attack posts so I brought him up in my post.

While on FGI, I was intrigued by all the Austin stuff- they had legendary threads. They hated George who passed himself off as an expert in everything Austin. I was getting email from the regular Austin folks to pay no attention to him. He now has a self-published book and DVD out on the swing.

I always posted straight forward information about TGM and have answered dozens of emails from some of you that went on with several replies. George on every forum sits and waits every few months and launches an attack on someone that was trying to be helpful explaining the basics (I’m no genius) about TGM.

One of my early posts was to “thank’ GEA for allowing such good posts about TGM without the sheet we get on other forums. It is important to explain TGM simply outside of this forum whenever the chance emerges.

Ted is the best on that site and yes the Long Island workshop was heavy GEA attended. Bravo for that.

Someone please let them know that Yoda Solo was 6bmike and not Lynn Blake.

I need a real life.

mike

Mike,
I'm sorry you had to go through that with those morons. George is impossible to be nice to... he simply doesn't allow it. He is also too much of a windbag to ever understand...no one can wait for any information at the end of the lengthy monologue.. And I guess you saw that he is a 'friend' of the moderator.

I still think knowledgeable TGM instructors make a mistake posting in hostile environments. If you take that "best instruction you've ever received" thread as an example, I believe it is just as effective for one of the 'instructed' (me , for example) to reply and mention Ted and this website. I think when baited it is normal to defend oneself and that can make an individual appear either sarcastic, nasty or almost as crazy as the baiters. That doesn't help any cause either.

Just for clarification, I thought it was YodasLuke (Ted Fort) that was banned over there. I think because I was reading along and then saw the banned post by pingboy and thought Ted Fort.

Also, I thought YodaSolo was Lynn Blake. So I would strongly recommend that someone go there and with a new thread make some STRONG CLARIFICATIONS.

Rumbler

Did you read all the posts? They appear to have clarified who's who.