Learning to cycle for the first time and struggling.
08-20-19, 08:45 AM
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Basically, the bike is self balancing while moving, so most of what we do is actually learning not to mess with that.
My opinion is that there's a lot of ways to teach someone to ride and it almost doesn't matter which non-abusive method you use, but having two people trying to use two different theories must have driven the poor kid nuts. The lesson I would take from that story is one "coach" only, and if you can't decide who, flip a coin.
My opinion is that there's a lot of ways to teach someone to ride and it almost doesn't matter which non-abusive method you use, but having two people trying to use two different theories must have driven the poor kid nuts. The lesson I would take from that story is one "coach" only, and if you can't decide who, flip a coin.
ETA: Sometimes you just have to let kids learn things how they want to learn them.
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