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49erGBR735HSC
Really should get out more Joined: 30 Mar 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1991 |
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Topic: Instructor's thread.......? Posted: 04 Sep 05 at 8:56pm |
When I did my course I was only 15 and had my qualification held until I was 16, so it was possible but that was over at least six years ago. Probably to do with the fact that the course was held at the end of the season & my birthday was before the start of the next. Got a funny feeling I did my my Powerboat course when I was 15 & had people on the course a year younger than us. I'm not too sure but I think at that time our rescue boats were insured for drivers over 14 but that was many years ago and things could have changed since then...... |
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ssailor
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04 Sep 05 at 10:04pm |
well theres no age limit on powerboat driving it just comes down to insurance so they may well of been younger than 16!
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Any one in need of quality carbon fibre work (tillers etc) at decent prices!
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CurlyBen
Really should get out more Joined: 17 Aug 05 Location: Southampton Online Status: Offline Posts: 539 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04 Sep 05 at 10:34pm |
According to my book AIs have to be under supervision of an SI and
under direct supervision of an instructor. Quite a few places (in my
experience anyway) have rules where powerboats have to have PB2 (to
hold full PB2 you have to be 16) or you have to be 16 to even learn.
Apparently the AI certificate's only valid at the centre it was awarded
at, I hadn't realised that before! All these people teaching as
AIs/under 16 or whatever, what have you been teaching?
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49erGBR735HSC
Really should get out more Joined: 30 Mar 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1991 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Sep 05 at 1:07am |
When I was working as an AI (at 14), we were under the supervision of
instructors but at the same time if we were confident enough on a
subject we were allowed to teach pretty much anything under
supervision. A lot of the time it was on the water and rarely went into
theory stuff because the instructors course is based upon how to convey
teaching skills and assumes you are very compedent at sailing because
you have passed a pre-assessment before.
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ssailor
Far too distracted from work Joined: 11 Oct 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 430 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Sep 05 at 10:13am |
that is true i passes my tidal instructors last week!
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Any one in need of quality carbon fibre work (tillers etc) at decent prices!
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HannahJ
Really should get out more Joined: 23 Jul 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 861 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Sep 05 at 11:49am |
Yer most of the kids i teach have done some sailing before, but haven't
quite got the hang of stuff like going to windward, ie. sail in etc.,
so we're just saying stuff like, " if you're going upwind, where should
your sail be" etc.
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MIRROR 64799 "Dolphin"
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist hopes it will change; the realist adjusts the sail |
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CurlyBen
Really should get out more Joined: 17 Aug 05 Location: Southampton Online Status: Offline Posts: 539 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Sep 05 at 12:59pm |
Cool, I wasn't really sure what stuff you were doing. I've only worked
with an AI once, and that was someone who was deferred after the DI
course for group control. Last year at the centre I work at there were
a few trainee instructors - they were people good enough for the DI
course but too young, and I don't think there were any AIs this year.
My little bro did his AI course this weekend, might ask him what he did
on it, I went straight to DI.
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49erGBR735HSC
Really should get out more Joined: 30 Mar 05 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 1991 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Sep 05 at 2:52pm |
I worked as an AI for a few years at my club. The basic sail training
was held on Tuesday nights and Weekends, where the instructors were
teaching the begginners. On a Thursday night, instructor training was
carried out for the AI's and was open to Instructors sitting in too,
which ran alongside the clubs race training program. We were basically
going through the in's & out's of the instructors course at our
club with our SI who taught us classroom presentation, etc. The trainee
instructors, coming from a racing point of view, usually helped out
with the race training because it allowed the trainees to instruct
directly from a level of sailing that they were involved with and
teaching more compedent sailors seemed to have less complications
because they have a sense of what they are doing. Later on as an
instructor, we supervised the AI's and gave them enough room to
emphasise their confidence. When they were stuck, we subtley stepped in
and took over from them. We ran a stage 3 course where at the same time
as 2 instructors running the course, we had 3 AIs working for us.
Between the 2 of us we were watching the kids and the AI's &
throughout the course we were assessing the AI's and at the end of the
week it was down to us to say who was suitable for going further on to
the instructors course.
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HannahJ
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Sep 05 at 7:25pm |
I just did a one week course and have been teaching ever since...
actually i'd been teaching for all of the previous year, but anyway...
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MIRROR 64799 "Dolphin"
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist hopes it will change; the realist adjusts the sail |
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jpbuzz591
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 16 Oct 05 at 8:12pm |
i am now a dinghy instructor! Finished the course today and am over the moon.
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