I too am a stubborn person[quote]
Obvious from the continued insults spanning 37 pages.
[quote]and I hate letting an argument go, especially when the facts are 100% on my side{/quote]
"facts" in your case amount to nothing more than your refusal to listen to anyone except yourself.
[quote]everyone with a shred of intelligence and common sense knows you are right
So you define people who are intelligent purely by whether they agree with you. Wow, wish I had thought of that the day I was born, then my view of the world would be much simpler.
To actually learn something you have to be open-minded. Pose is about:
(1) A set of perceptions that help you run better, PROVIDED you practice the drills for long enough to get improvement. For many people, that can take months. For the closed-minded and unwilling to put in effort instead of arguing, that can be an eternity. Arguing about physics will not get you any closer to understanding if following the method will help you individually. If you refuse to want to try this method, then fine, you may achieve greatness on your own, but you will never know if you could have been even better by applying this method after continued focus on learning and deliberate practice.
As shown by the posts on the Pose forum, having a theoretical debate and then going out one weekend or even a couple weeks and trying to simulate what they think they were being told by the Pose instructions is nowhere near adequate to begin to realize the efficiency or speed improvements on an individual level. For most people who are trained runners, they actually initially experience a DECREASE in running economy and speed, until they have adapted several months of drills and short runs to reinforce the new patterning motions and timing. Anyone who can argue like an armchair general without putting in the time of training will never know to what extent Pose might actually improve their running, and to state otherwise is tantamount to an adolescent stating, "College will never benefit me because look at all the dumb-@ss people I hate that went to college, and I will surround myself with people who didn't go to college and agree with me because we are right and we are smarter." To those people I say, fine, do your own thing, ignorance is bliss!!!
(2) A set of biomechanical motions subdividing the running motion into certain distinct phases and certain defined elements of form, balance, and timing of muscle contractions within those phases.
(3) The originator of Pose and trained certified coaches do not claim that:
(a) any individual element or process in running was invented by the Pose originator;
(b) no one can achieve peak performance by any other method besides Pose;
(c) everyone else must run completely differently as evidenced by every phase of running motion unless they were specifically trained and consciously practice Pose.
The last 3 points are the root of much of the resentment on this thread and other related threads. Pose is humble enough to admit that high-achievement runners may exhibit one or more elements in common with Pose, but that doesn't imply they are running Pose style. Some great runners have form and style that differs signficantly. There is more than one way to skin a cat. However, you will never absolutely answer the question if Pose training might further increase SOME of these great runners to an even HIGHER LEVEL of achievement; you can apply all the rhetoric and theory you want, but truth be told, pure discussions will never answer that question.
So what I am suggesting is, if you are tempted by the water, try it out, but don't assume after swimming without lessons or swimming with one lesson that you know everything there is to know about swimming and cannot benefit further by other methods of learning. For example, clinics that teach certain elements of swimming can help an athlete improve, even if he previously had achieved several medals. Tiger Woods has "reinvented" his swing several times on the journey to becoming an even better golfer, even though he could have instead just rested on his laurels and said, "I am the greatest golfer in the world, how can you tell me something that would make me even better?."