My flying instructor, who is an old bush pilot (and aerobatics instructor - yeh ha), taught me from abinitio "the proper way" - and was at pains to point out that he was required to teach the Jacobsen Flare method to the uni students he also taught and he disliked the method. His thoughts were that the Jacobsen Flare method made it easier & less expensive to train pilots and was at the expense of proper landing technique. I don't know where the truth lies, and haven't flown using the JF method, but I do have respect for my flying instructor.