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I always ask my clients to “record yourself while exercising!” because no one is a perfect trainer. You may know the whole theory, or even think you’re doing everything perfectly, and then you record yourself and say “whaaaaaat what’s that supposed to be, it’s me?”. During classes with clients, it is much easier if you know exactly what you are showing and how you are showing it, because the fact that you think you are showing something well may turn out to be wrong when you see it yourself. You simply won’t get any better without it. I think the same way about instructions, before each lesson with clients I know what to do, and all I have to do is look at instructions for 2 minutes before the class, but sometimes the client verifies that the instructions are too complicated, they don’t quite know what to do, they are confused etc. I also go back to my instructions to correct them after a lesson with a “difficult client”.
Personally, I love these lessons with puppies when we can’t stop talking and we praise the dog all the time :D. And that’s what’s great about this training, these first steps, which, despite minor mistakes, are forgivable if you know what to work on… Me and Koka already have quite a lot of influences from the previous training and I just don’t want to change it anymore (e.g. we have 2 commands for “heel” – “sporty” which we learned earlier and is reliable and classic to show sometimes during classes what I mean and to pass the lesson here, we have the same “come” with the pass leg behind the back and it is reliable and the second one with standing in front, which I use to simply practice with Koka to pass the lessons here and for my clients)
