papa said:
<snip>...Although I think he has provided some positive information to get people started in the sport I might question how applicable his principals are at higher levels. <snip>.....
Thanks for the feedback Papa. I can't speak for folks at a higher level than me, but I'm about a 4.5 level (I've won club championships in the past and do well in age group tournaments) and I'm definitely learning from this eye-opening material. I've really only tried to apply his forehand method so far and I'm already seeing value/payoff related to the forehand follow thru. I've tried using an over the shoulder follow thru in the past, but I've never been able to do it for more than a few balls before I would stop doing it.
Yesterday was the first chance I've had to hit since receiving Oscar's materials. Following Oscar's simple forehand method, I hit almost every forehand with an over the shoulder follow thru and it really wasn't hard to do. My regular hitting partner (a former Big 10 college player) commented that my forehands had more topspin and hop to them than usual. Granted, that was only one session, but I can't imagine that I wouldn't build on that session on my way to making the over the shoulder follow thru a normal part of my forehand. One other benefit to using his forehand method yesterday, which I really wasn't expecting, was that I was able to hit much more angled forehands than I normally do. So, for me, its been very helpful so far.
Regarding your questioning whether Oscar's material is really unique or new. I don't really know and actually, for me it doesn't really matter. What matters to me and what I like about Oscar's materials is that it is easy to follow and it makes a lot of sense to me.
I'm still curious about using his methods for teaching. I'm going to be using the Wegner method with my wife who was a pretty good intermediate player when she stopped playing a few years ago. Her forehand was her weakness so it'll be interesting to see how this goes.