Comprehensive Guide For Coaching Children How To Ski

This book truly lives up to its title. This comprehensive guide includes everything anyone needs to know about teaching skiing to children. From making sure they are warm and fed to teaching physics fundamentals with a puppet or a pizza, the overall message is to make the activity safe and fun. There is much psychology involved in being a good and effective teacher. Likewise, teaching skiing takes psychological considerations to be most successful. Naito discusses building trust with children and parents. He reminds coaches to use a positive, upbeat voice and praise everyone specifically and often-all before the coach even hits the slopes with the kids.