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- From: mmh2941@rigel.tamu.edu (Mary Haskett)
- Newsgroups: rec.skydiving
- Subject: Re: Freestyle camp
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 14:00 CST
- Organization: Texas A&M University
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- In article <1992Dec22.160839.7121@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>, dbriggs@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Daniel Briggs) writes...
- >
- >I'm afraid that I can't help you, but I have a related question: Can anyone
- >compare the training camps given by Mike Michigan and Tamara Koyn? Just
- >based on the personalities of the people involved, I'd suspect that Mike
- >might teach more to the techniques and Tamara more to the philosophy, but I
- >certainly do not know this be true. Can anyone add some data points?
- >Scott, didn't Mike make a trip down under a while ago and give some
- >workshops? Do you have any comments on the style of teaching?
-
- I've been to seminars by both Tamara Koyn and Mike Michigan and at Tamara's
- seminar (it was one of her first, so they may have improved) the video was
- amazing and I learned alot from watching it, but she was unable to comm-
- unicate effectively with the participants and was generally inarticulate.
- I left feeling that she was a very talented freestylist and I had gained
- ideas of things to try, but my freestyle didn't improve. At Michigan's
- seminar, he is much less formal and structured but he was able to explain
- the moves so well that he could communicate what it _felt_ like to do a
- move. I went up and tried some stuff and it worked and felt just like he
- said it would. I left feeling like my freestyle technique had improved.
- He did go to Australia and do some very well received seminars there. The
- team that won third place in the female category at the World Freestyle
- Championships was coached by him when he was there. I can also recommend
- the Wind Tunnel Boogie at Pigeon Forge, TN. Michigan will be there and I
- don't know who else, but it's alot of fun and you can learn alot.
-
- Mary Haskett
- Texas A&M University
- E-mail at MMH2941@RIGEL.TAMU.EDU
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