Yeah I heard his teaching is just god awful. Which is a bit sad, because if you want people to learn your stuff, you have to put some effort into it. Hell it shouldn't even be THAT hard to properly explain how to do something.
I don't know anything neat or cool about somebody trying to flourishes at hyper speed. I always believed that if you are into flourishing, then you do it so other people can appreciate it. How can people appreciate something if you are going to fast for them to enjoy it?
that's just displaying a lack of understanding of flourishing. his flourishes are designed to be done at top speed. If you do a "what the hell happened to sybil" at top speed as opposed to slowed down to make it "smooth", it looks better.
There are, of course flourishes that demand a slower performance to look better, for example pandora, you need the pauses for it's displays, and i think the first phase should be done smoothly rather than quickly, but that's dan and dave buck's style, not tudor's.
Any of Tudor's flourishes look so much better done at top speed, rather than "smoothly", it's his style.
and as for his teaching? If you can't learn the moves from his DVDs, your not experienced enough in flourishing to learn from them. You need a solid flourishing foundation to be able to learn his stuff. you shouldn't need to be shown how to do a revolution cut 5 times from 5 different angles, then "ONE MORE TIME", it's assumed you can do all that.