Feb 2 (2011)
Gavin went along to the Finns’ workshop at Interski. Here’s Gav’s review…
Clinic title: Motivation
Clinic synopsis: This clinic was all about how to motivate students (video at bottom of post).
Our summary: This was an interesting clinic that looked at how to motivate students in a group situation. The main motivating tool demonstrated was that of social interaction. The approach was to use a variety of drills (usually performed with skis off) which encourage the group to work in pairs or threes. The drills used simulated ski technique but created a fun element to the lesson.
Terrain was also used as a motivating factor. A good example of how the Finns managed this was by changing their plan slightly to motivate the group by allowing us to ski some extra powder runs because they could see how happy and motivated that made us!
Check out the video…
[...] ended up presenting two ski clinics, with Gav going to one on motivation and Scotty attending this one about emotion. Here’s his [...]