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Dave,
Martee makes a good point- Full Power- is it written in the context of pressure point pressure?- or is it written in the context of maximum accumulators? - or a maximum combination of both? - Your view/feedback? In relation to your post?

Martee,
Good comments- Put in a little different way or clarifying your comments/perspective:
1) TGM is essentially the Star System Triad- the Three Imperatives applying the Three functions through the Three Stations - if you're having that as your essential guide to teaching students to lower their scores then you're teaching TGM.
2) If you're arguing, promoting other specific issues of the golf swing i.e. your golf swing essentials - then you've become too narrow and haven't grasped the nature of TGM- that it allows for all kinds of variations.
3) Or another way that you like to say it - is to drop the Star System Triad as the starting point and only look at things below it or something specific. That's the perspective that makes your point clear- that if you're teaching TGM then you're teaching someone the book, otherwise in regards to teaching TGM to students in regards to working on improving their swing- there is no TGM way- it's wide open - that is under the Star System Triad.

Except on the basis of mechanical advantage, efficient force.
By the definitions in physics and geometry, there is a 'most efficient' application of force.

The student, any given student, is seeking their most efficent motion, and the concepts behind that motion are always based on 'laws'. We create all kinds of machines based on these laws, and golfing machines should be based on those laws. The catalog of TGM does present a wide array of options for compliance with those laws.

Perhaps no pattern may really be considered 'the' best, but many patterns may be considered 'equally efficient'.

All of that said.. to DG's reason for starting this thread -

DG - What, in your view, makes the new changes a more efficient application of force? Is that difference most clearly a change in geometry, physics, or anatomy of the pattern?