Thanks to bad singing habits I did RYV all wrong and then SS just made it worse! I was tensing my throat, my jaw, and everything way too much. So, it is important for me to learn how to support? absolutely, because it prevents the tension in my face, jaw and neck. Moral of the story?, an advice pretending to universalize singers needs is definitely wrong!

Thanks Phil, that is awesome to hear you've had those results with SS and RYV combined.

"you'll develop a soft ability which is useful for rnb and soul etc."
Good!

"So now i'm getting full voiced awesome sounds but witht he freedom i was getting from SLS!"
Sounds even better.

"i think the problem with support is that it pushes your voice to skip the zipping"
I must be zipping because I can reach very high notes but I do strain and push way too much, not always though. Usually I strain from where chest register ends and cords start zipping up, so again it's the most common thing ever. I'm expecting that SS exercises will help me clear this up now and tap into that easy and effortless singing through my whole range.

Anyway thanks for your post, it was helpful.

yeah man. for me, and i can only speak for myself: my conclusion is that i need to learn to sing softly and connected throughought my range BEFORE adding support and intensity. this is what SLS is doing, then RYV is my "make it sound awesome" tool.

my current routine is going through the singing success stuff (i advance through the cd's when i feel i can do the exercises really well)
then at the end i do the RYV exercises, then sing until i run out of time.