I'm wondering how long everyone's private lessons are, particularly the adults here.

Mine are 15 minutes, 20+ years ago I had 1/2 hour on figures, 1/2 hour on free skating. (Back then we had to do an hour practice on figures before freeskating)

15 minutes seems so short, especially as most of it is taken up with edges ( I know I need this work, but oh, I just want to jump and spin !!!), and it always feels so rushed.

Perhaps it is a symptom of advancing age, as I feel I need to pick things to pieces and really understand them so I can work on them properly myself.

How long do others think is the optimum lesson length?

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Hi, I usually have 15 minutes. I have had 30 minutes but I find that 15 is better for me because I can then go and practice what weve been doing. any longer and I forget! maybe as I progress and work on harder stuff I may need longer. My coach is so precise, Ive usually had enough by then!!!!

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It depends on how busy my coaches are.

With my winter coach, through the winter, most sessions were one or two 15 minute blocks per hour. Sometimes I'd get another session in the second hour. I was also skating 4 hours practice per week without a coach, so that was only 15 or 30 minutes per 6 hours ice time.

At Spring School my winter coach was giving me 15 minutes per hour. (She finally took me seriously that I wanted to enter the Nationals.)

At Summer School, my summer coach was doing the same (15 minutes per hour) sometimes but, if she didn't have another skater on that session, I'd be bless with her coaching for 45 minutes of each hour session - oh joy! That's INTENSE!

Going into the fall and winter seasons, my winter coach wants 4 hours/week together - she said "You WILL be ready for Nationals!" - LOL! What have I DONE??!!

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30 minute lessons. The first 10 minutes or so focuses on stroking and power (heck, sometimes the whole lesson is nothing but stroking drills), and the remainder is normally focused on whatever dance I am currently working on.

For me, anything less and not much gets accomplished. Or so my mind thinks.

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Mine are usually 45 mins, but if I feel I need to really work on something I ask my coach for an hour. It never seems long enough no matter how long they are!

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Usually mine are 30 minutes. Frequently am the last student of the day or the last student before a break so if we are working on something and it seems that I am close to a breakthrough we will sometimes go to 45 minutes. I usually have one private a week but occassionally I can fit two into my schedule.

My private lessons tend to be 30 minutes. I find that 15 minutes is too short and I'm just beginning to get something and we have to move on whereas in the 30 minute lesson we can cover most of the things we need to in a fair amount of depth. There is a LOT of information that comes my way, but I find that in a lesson I tend to focus and concentrate more than usual and I seem to take all of it in.

I don't think I could do more than 30 minutes though, I just don't have the stamina to skate that intensely

Typically 30 minutes. I've done as long as an hour, but usually I'd be so exhausted by the end I could barely stagger off the ice! My coach can very easily kill me in 30, then I go home to recover & get back to practice the next day.

My private lessons always lasted 30 minutes and I tried to schedule them during a skate session that would allow me to practice for an additional hour before or after the lesson. I would've preferred to have hour long private lessons but couldn't afford it.

Mine are 20 minutes.

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Our couples' lesson is 30 minutes, as is my solo lesson, but the Husband only has 15 minutes' solo lesson, and, frankly, I don't think it's enough. He does, though....

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30 minutes for group, as well as the occasional private lesson - usually this length seems about right - and of course there is always the occasional lesson when nothing goes right and 30 minutes seems way too long!!!

30 minutes, every other week. When my MIF class is in session, it's 30 minutes every week. And 45 minutes of Synchro a week (not nearly enough!)

45-60 minutes. Depends. I have 3 or 4 of those a week.

30 or 45 minutes, depending on if my coach shows up on time (!) and if I get too involved in those pesky gold moves. If I am working on the bracket move or FO-BI double 3's, I KNOW it will be a 45-minute lesson.

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Uh, half of my 20 minute lesson yesterday was on RFO power threes!
Primary coach's lessons are 20 minutes in length. Secondary coach's lessons are sometimes 20 minutes (like for the next two weeks) but sometimes 30.

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The nice thing about working on moves (besides the fact that, er, they strengthen the overall foundation of one's skating) is that when I'm done with them in the lesson, I am doubly happy to work on *any* freestyle element!

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True, but some of my freestyle elements (mostly the loop) have taken vacation while working on moves!

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I've got you both beat---ALL of my 30 minute lesson last week was spent on forward stroking!!

Yep. Sounds familiar. All of at least 1 of my lessons last week was stroking-related. Actually I think all of both of them were focusing on stroking.

And most of yesterday's also.

In fact, come to think about it, I think all of us got stroking exercises/lessons last week. I know that at least one of my coach's senior teams spent at least 2 days of their post-Placid return to ice working on stroking and unison.

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Q: How many coaches does it take to fix Jen's Dance Intro-3 Problems
A: 5 and counting...

Uh-huh! 30 minute stroking lessons SUUUUURE sounds familiar! I definitely had those! And crossovers lessons too!!! I'm still trying to learn forward progressives too!!! (It's for my own good though. It should double my power and speed when I get it right and I'm already fast as is for Bronze Moves...)

jenlyon60: Beware of coaches going to seminars or a competition... when they come home, they ALWAYS learn something new... and use their students as guinea pigs!

Original thread:

30 minutes primary coach
30 minutes secondary coach

And BOTH coaches worked on nothing but moves for a while... except the occasional lesson breather to work on jumps/spins (primary coach) or something evil (secondary coach...)

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20 minutes

They are supposed to be 20 minutes but they kept creeping to 30, so I've just accepted it. I think 20 would be enough, but only because I'm having 2 lessons per week. My bi-weekly moves-in-the-field lessons are just 20 minutes, but we only work on about 2 moves each time.

It's so true! I've been using Champion Cords on my students since the conference I went to in June. Prior to that, I knew about them but didn't know HOW to use them.

Because it's so unusual in our rink, the kids are embarrassed to get hooked up and they refer to them as "leashes!" Hey - if it gets them to start synching up their arms and legs, and stops the flapping, I'll do whatever it takes. (As long as it's not cruel or illegal.)

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With dance coach: usually 30 minutes, sometimes 25 -- depends on how cramped he gets with the lessons.

Primary coach -- she used to save me until last and then give me whatever time she had -- sometimes it would be over an hour! Now she's busier and I'm really liking the 15-minutes we spend together -- somehow the instruction is more digestible. Plus I've been with her for such a long time, she knows all of my problems, I understand her language and she can just zero in on stuff really well. We might do it twice a week, which is also nice. I like the continual feedback.

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