DG - you wrote-: "I studied with Tommy personally in 1993 and on audio tape I have Tommy saying he wasn't selling his personal view/spin/opinion of TGM."
I personally believe that everybody who personally studied with HK is teaching his personal interpretation of HK's ideas when he teaches TGM. HK's work is enormously complex and every student of TGM understands it slightly differently because of inherent limitations in their intellectual capacity to understand the complex physical/mechanical/biomechanical issues involved. Based on the 12-DVD series, I think that TT had a marked intellectual incapacity to truly understand HK's TGM system - compared to Yoda's intellectual understanding. What most impresses me about Yoda's TGM insights is their penetrating depth, their clarity of expression and their consistent consonance with respect to the TGM text. I suspect that Yoda's understanding of TGM is many orders of magnitude greater than TT's understanding. Based on the 12-DVD TGM-teaching series, I love TT's enthusiasm for teaching TGM, his gifted hands (amazing ability to perform all the TGM movements with amazing skill/finesse), but I don't think that he had the intellectual gifts required to fully understand all the intricacies of TGM (to the degree that Yoda can). If two people personally studied with HK with the same level of enthusiasm, intensity and dedication, it doesn't mean that they ended up with an equal level of understanding of TGM, and that their final beliefs re: TGM are equally valid.
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