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Oh come on, we've all tried steering a whale with a a toothpick at one time or another haven't we?
I think my anxieties about teaching CBs are misplaced. This week went well. Patience, persistence and positivity, that's the key. That and plenty of Ibuprofen to keep my back working.
I had an interesting experience at the weekend. The trainee was a young girl. She was great, really determined and already had pretty good balance on the bike so getting her to be able to start and stop independently wasn't too hard. The interesting bit was that her mother was very friendly and warm but her father, when he turned up later, was rather distant. Not at all rude but a little cool. It was only as I rode home that I thought maybe this was because he felt embarrassed that his role had been usurped, that some stranger - another man - had come in and succeeded where he had failed in his fatherly duties. People eh?