"Let me explain this to you," I told Dance Coach while I was catching my breath after a particularly awful string of inside swingrolls, "The American way is for positive reinforcement. Lots of praise that I'm improving. Turn a blind eye to the fact that I look like a duck on ice, look for something positive to say even when you're correcting me. Your way, is that no matter how much I improve, I'm always doing something wrong."
"Is Russian way." he said.
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I think it,s pretty funny too.
ReplyDeleteMy problem is that although my coach gives tons of positive reinforcement, I never believe him.
ReplyDeleteNot that I'd like 'the Russian Way' better (I wouldn't), but there's clearly no pleasing skaters!
I thought about this again today. I have a definite American coach.
ReplyDeleteI'm working on converting a half flip to a full flip. I've got about a 3/4 flip. Coach wants it in program instead of my loop, which I really cheat too, but at least I land backwards at the end of the cheat.
He tells me "You're getting closer" and "It's a lot bigger than the loop". Amoebas are bigger than my loop. A Russian coach wouldn't praise my flip at all! (We do have a Russian coach at our rink- when I sprained my wrist he told me I needed to practice more so I wouldn't hurt myself.)
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