One of the most helpfull things that a good AASI examiner or clinician can teach instructors is Movement Analisys. Learning the art of being able to watch someone ride and see exactly what all the different body movements are doing and being able to tell what that is doing to the board is a huge benefit in becoming a more effective instructor. I need a lot more work on this and from what I have learned already it is helping me identify precisely what someone is doing to sabotage themselves. The more you watch people ride and practive M.A. the more you start seeing this stuff and the easier and quicker it is to help people out with improving their riding.
As Sedition mentioned, it is amazing to see how well some rider with horrible habbits can actually ride. This is one reason that learning from a friend can often be a horrible thing for a newbie to do. These riders "teach" their friends to ride like they do and these bad habits that they have learned to work with make learning very difficult for the new rider.
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