Spiral Learning

Why Do You Learn The Same Skiing Skills in so Many lessons?

 

When I was learning to ski I pondered why I spent so many of my lessons learning skills I had previously 'mastered'. When I spoke to Rick about the concept I envisaged to describe my learning progress he had a similar concept. So this is the article Rick wrote to describe the way we learn and develop our skiing skills.

Or entire article available for download and printing here


Spiral Learning.pdf


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