How do I find an instructor who teaches like a ski instructor?

[Skier]

I teach skiing,and from the feedback I get, both verbal and watching change in performance, I think I am pretty good at it.  I certainly like taking clinics from other instructors who teach like I do.  My basic approach to teaching (dependent of course on a particular student's stated goals) is to take a particular skill, and to make it a focus of a lesson, but make it a simple skill that is almost all about moving one part of the body, for example flexing and extending the ankles.  I get the focus from analyzing the skiers' movement patterns and picking the single action that I think will have the most beneficial impact.  I know there are lots of other things to fix, but I like to get one thing right during a lesson, rather than have some shotgun approach that ends up with no permanent change to the skiers.  I try to attack this skill through several different activities, always trying my best to make it fun, usually by making a game out of it. I try very hard not to say "don't do that," rather saying "try this," substituting some activity that is mutually exclusive of the undesirable movement, for example, saying try to do all your absorption of the turn forces with your ankles, instead of having them bend their knees.

What I would like to find in a golf instructor is someone who can be encouraging, and also be focused on letting me get just one muscle movement pattern improved in a single lesson.  How do I find that kind of instructor?

[mvmac]

I teach skiing,and from the feedback I get, both verbal and watching change in performance, I think I am pretty good at it.  I certainly like taking clinics from other instructors who teach like I do.  My basic approach to teaching (dependent of course on a particular student's stated goals) is to take a particular skill, and to make it a focus of a lesson, but make it a simple skill that is almost all about moving one part of the body, for example flexing and extending the ankles.  I get the focus from analyzing the skiers' movement patterns and picking the single action that I think will have the most beneficial impact.  I know there are lots of other things to fix, but I like to get one thing right during a lesson, rather than have some shotgun approach that ends up with no permanent change to the skiers.  I try to attack this skill through several different activities, always trying my best to make it fun, usually by making a game out of it. I try very hard not to say "don't do that," rather saying "try this," substituting some activity that is mutually exclusive of the undesirable movement, for example, saying try to do all your absorption of the turn forces with your ankles, instead of having them bend their knees.

What I would like to find in a golf instructor is someone who can be encouraging, and also be focused on letting me get just one muscle movement pattern improved in a single lesson.  How do I find that kind of instructor?

Recommend you check out one of these guys.

http://5sk.com/index.php/site/find

More info on 5 Simple Keys, sounds like what you're looking for.

Or these guys who are also 5SK instructors.

http://evolvr.thegolfevolution.com/

[Lihu]

This kind of belongs here as well.

You'd think movements like Get Golf Ready would be more direct in their approach. The goal for snaring new golfers seem to just be getting them out there and turning them loose after a couple vague, basic lessons. IMO these types of golfers need to be directed to courses they can handle, par 3's or maybe courses hosting a GGR night were one side is reserved for them and they put them all the way forward.

If they did that with snowboarding lessons many more people would have concussions, broken wrists and sprained lower backs. . .

Oh wait, that's exactly what happened until they started giving more effective lessons. I started snowboarded in the late 80s, and it was pretty much a painful learning experience. Nowadays, much safer and the lessons have kids going down moguls within a month.