Me, Backwards

Today I fulfilled a goal I set for myself when I started skydiving.  Knowing how much I struggled with my own learning, I always said I’d pay it forward someday and become an instructor myself.  I figure the worst students make the best instructors, right?

I’ve been thinking about going for the coach rating for a while (the first level of USPA instructional ratings, that allows one to work with advanced students) but I hadn’t had enough confidence in the consistency of my own abilities to go for it.  I finally did this weekend, and I’m glad I did.  I think the course is more about teaching people how to teach and to evaluate others than it is about strict and harsh evaluation; but it still helped to go into it feeling as confident as I have lately about my own abilities.  I hold myself to high standards, and I feel like I met those as well this weekend and I feel ready to work with real students (instead of instructors pretending to be students).

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