I got this in my youtube recommendations today. Interested to hear comments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWqQ4pf2OII
h.harb wrote:This is a mixed bag of some good parts, and confusion, however he doesn't demonstrate what he says, in his own skiing. I wonder where he got the foot pull back, ah? The extension part is nonsense.
h.harb wrote:One thing I have learned is that most exercises shown on You Tube are not very well presented. They are rarely integrated back into the skiing for the student, after the exercise is complete.
For exercises to be worthwhile and successful there has to be a beginning, middle and an integration phase.
First, the coach has to give the student the reason, motivation, why the exercise is worth doing and relevant. Then the coach describes where in the arc and for what purpose the exercise is introduced. I never see this being done properly, in USSA coaching programs or in regular lessons.
Then there has to be a strong relationship of "quality of performance", feedback, and refinement, conveyed to the student so the results from the exercise can be evaluated. I see exercises everywhere being done incorrectly without any coaching to mend the issues. There is no point in doing exercises if the same mistakes are created during the exercise as in the regular skiing.
The most important part is conveyed after the exercise, which is; how to integrate the movements from the exercise back into your actual skiing movements.
dewdman42 wrote:It’s comical to watch them try to teach what they don’t really understand but somehow they are determining that some of these movements must be important to have in the toolbox so they are trying but they don’t really understand it other then at a very superficial level.
This quote from Harald, captures, to me at least, the true essence of phenomenal coaching—the complete circle of the “why”, the “how”, and the “required result” I think TTS so often misses on most, if not all of these elements.
h.harb wrote:The problem PSIA has, goes much deeper then just "the Bag of tricks" approach, although I agree with Steve. They can't possibly fulfill a student's motivation because they can't connect the dots. PSIA doesn't identify the movements of the student. They don't know how to determine a SMIM. After that they don't have the movement understanding of how to reverse or correct. Example, if you have an upper body rotator, you have to teach lower body tipping and CA. PSIA can't do either with their "outcome" approach. Teaching outcomes, doesn't change movements. And as Steve wrote, they don't follow the steps for development I lined out in my previous post, even if they do select the right trick in the bag.
HeluvaSkier wrote:I've always maintained that the problems you've highlighted stem from there being no defined technical model for how to make a turn.
jbotti wrote:HeluvaSkier wrote:I've always maintained that the problems you've highlighted stem from there being no defined technical model for how to make a turn.
I assume pun intended
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