How do I find a good instructor?

And here was me thinking this was a skiing forum.....

Wish I hadn't asked

Mike3000 wrote:And here was me thinking this was a skiing forum.....

Wish I hadn't asked

You'll get used to it. Just a bit of office banter..........without the office bit.

ise wrote:

Mike3000 wrote:Old habits are sometime hard to break, looks like there could be pain ahead

Ross F, is the Rick Astley comment for real or a wind up?

that's right, research suggests to acquire a new skill there's a low number of repetitions, something like 20 or 30 times, but to fix something you're looking at 2500-3000 or so.

everyone loves Rick Astley )

It may say that it only takes 20 to 30 repetitions to learn a new skill, but it take 10,000 repetitions in order to make it a natural, instictive reaction

mickyd87 wrote:

It may say that it only takes 20 to 30 repetitions to learn a new skill, but it take 10,000 repetitions in order to make it a natural, instictive reaction

I've never heard that, I'd be interested if you have a source for that as it's runs contrary to anything I've read before.

I think this refers to the acknowledged thinking that an elite athlete does approx 10,000 hours of training before they are world class. This can also be used in other professions outside sport and in anything really. You need to do something for 10,000 hours (or I supose 10,000 times in the case of skiing) to excel in a skill. It is by no means a garuntee of success but it seems to help. The research was intially done by Malcolm Gladstone but if you google it, there is quite a bit on there.

smirnoff_skier wrote:I think this refers to the acknowledged thinking that an elite athlete does approx 10,000 hours of training before they are world class. This can also be used in other professions outside sport and in anything really. You need to do something for 10,000 hours (or I supose 10,000 times in the case of skiing) to excel in a skill. It is by no means a garuntee of success but it seems to help. The research was intially done by Malcolm Gladstone but if you google it, there is quite a bit on there.

I think you mean Malcolm Gladwell and I don't think that's quite acknowledged thinking as such. It's not research either, he's a journalist :)

And there was me trying to be clever.

smirnoff_skier wrote:And there was me trying to be clever.

:D :D

that figure keeps turning around in my head though, 10,000 hrs for a skier is just huge, I reckon a skier starting around 8 or 10 could go through junior levels, Europa cup and onto the FIS circuit without hitting that level unless we included dryland training. And a ski instructor at, say, level 2 CSIA or BASI would be a way short of that. Which probably means as skiers we're none of much good.

Luckily I'm an elite athlete anyway :D