1. Dan never needed to post videos. He said that people would take it wrongly. He was right.
True but he has commented on others clips doing the same type of demo. Did "he" take it wrongly?
2. Other clips as well. I don't see anything substantive with what people are saying here. There is no context for it. There is a clip where Dan does an arm bar showing a principle and people come in and say "welll durrr maybe you should durrrr get a grappler to roll with you?". Like seriously, wtf?
The same comments made about most clips showing the same things, not really an issue for me, others may feel different.
3. Ruin it meaning Dan might just not allow,people to film in anymore because of the idiocy of some people. I enjoy videos of internal martial artists doing their thing and we finally get to see the notorious Dan Harden showcase some of his skill. People say you can't get skill from videos. Yes you can't get skill by watching video alone but if you know what you're looking for, they are tremendously helpful in helping you amp your skills up
He probably always had people flim him just not allow it to be posted.
I would disagree about "getting skill from a video"
IMO this is only true if one is close to the skill itself otherwise, most will tend to question it, which they do.
The issue IMO is whether this should be treated any differently because some know him, he post here, or "what ever"
Had it been posted and no one knew of him, or his work how would it be viewed?
The point is that now when comments are made from him or anyone else there is no mystery.
One can refer back to the clips posted and compare
It's a good clip, showing some interesting concepts / applications with a clear narration.
Interesting to me in that it was stressed "that its not what one sees but what one feels"
Which when used as argument many disregard this when it comes to other IMA artist.
This has always been the case with the exception that those close to the skill or those that have experienced
it as some here, can support it as they'er doing now the teacher in question.
I view the clip as any other clip presented by someone with skill. Others may have a closer
relationship with the actors and so may feel a little differently.