My own teaching philosophy is based on the belief that synthesis requires analysis. That's why I produced my website review of the golf swing using an in-depth analytic apporach. I belief that there is a subset of golfers who can independently synthesise a swing once they understand what they should be doing at each point in the swing (synthesis through self-analysis). Not all golfers can learn that way. Some golfers can understand an analysis, but cannot use the analysis to produce a synthesis unilaterally. That group of golfers would benefit by seeking help from a professional golf instructor who can tailor his advice for the individual golfer. A third group of golfers learn through "feel" and they do not learn by analysing a golf swing intellectually. That third group of golfers would not find my website, and its overly analytic approach, useful.

Whether my analytic approach is useful to those forum members posting their swings for public analysis can only be answered by each golfer posting his swing. I offer my advice in a spirit of goodwill and I do not feel slighted if the golfer thinks that my analysis is inaccurate, or not useful.

Jeff.