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I’m fascinated by ecosystems where, depending on who you talk to, you get completely different advice.
This was the case in nutrition for an age. The paleo/carnivore/keto people never seemed to be talking to the “calorie balance” people. Depending on which podcasts you listened to it was possible to get an almost completely opposite impression.
You might expect to see that in “squishy” areas like nutrition, where effect are hard to tease apart from confounders, and most of the studies are of self-reports of people in real life, because nobody’s going to “squid game” two cohorts in a lab for 30 years to observe things in a controlled setting.
But in drums, where the feedback is immediate and palpable, I couldn’t figure out how such contradictory approaches developed.
The slide.
The heel-toe.
Heel up. Heel down.
And each with its adherents shouting from the rooftops about its superiority.
So why hasn’t anybody reconciled all these seemingly-totally-contradictory techniques?
Part of it is something I discuss in the video - the difficulty for one person to feel what it feels like to be another. So we have to communicate using sh#tty proxies, like visuals, and words.
But part of it is also that the cadre of players who have done a lot of the experimentation haven’t quite made their way to the mainstream yet. (But, if yesterday’s live podcast guest is any indication, they soon will.)
In any case, I’ll throw my hat in the ring in an attempt to decode the “contradictions”.
See if you like the results.