Tight A&& instructor Turns

[ga2ski]

As a former coach(I will use coach as I prefer it over instructor) and racer, I can see Sparky's point about some instructors looking like stiff machines. I know few of coaches that a mountain that ski at often in Western Maine that look like they are right out of the coffin and teaching. However they are not what I consider the good ones. The good coaches are the free-flowing, talk less on the hill (talking is for the lift), and ski more.

I feel that learned a lot through coaching and and racing gave me great fundamentals. I think that i ski freely and have lots of fun. However I do have friends that used to coach that are too worried about their form than having fun.

And as Riv said I try to learn something new everytime I'm on the hill by watching others.

 

[Sparky]

As a former coach(I will use coach as I prefer it over instructor) and racer, I can see Sparky's point about some instructors looking like stiff machines. I know few of coaches that a mountain that ski at often in Western Maine that look like they are right out of the coffin and teaching. However they are not what I consider the good ones. The good coaches are the free-flowing, talk less on the hill (talking is for the lift), and ski more.

I feel that learned a lot through coaching and and racing gave me great fundamentals. I think that i ski freely and have lots of fun. However I do have friends that used to coach that are too worried about their form than having fun.

And as Riv said I try to learn something new everytime I'm on the hill by watching others.

Exactly. I catch myself in this mood all the time. Your trying to have the perfect form all the time to demonstrate the “right” way to ski and I think we are over looking the reason to ski. I know a lesson is only so long and you are trying to teach something, but maintaining the fun factor is just as important. So what are the ways you maintain that “fun” factor in a lesson?