I think canned material is essential for the average newcomer. It not only works, but gives you confidence. I don't see how Mr Joe Average can get that confidence while struggling with stuff that doesn't work for him.

I see a lot of opposition to canned material on here in favour of natural game, but I believe that most people will fail at natural game until they have worked the game successfully for a while. It takes a lot of game to do it naturally, - skill, confdence, knowledge, calibration and congruence. How can you achieve this if you are always failling because someone told you to go natural?

Start with basics and work up. Like most achievemets in this life, there is no shortcut, and if there was, KK would never have got out.

So I think canned for newbies and then migrate to natural if you think it still suits you _AND_ if you really want to.