Do "pro's" make good instructors?

[RocknRolla]

I see a lot of mention of "coaches" and "coaching"

 

I should have excluded coaching from the question, as i do not wish to discuss coaching - as the general forum-goers will most likely not be interested in employing a coach for competative reasons.

 

There are however a lot of newbies that would most probably attend a skills course at some stage or another - thus my question about "instructors"

[Slowbee]

Did Jake White play springbok rugby ?

[Iron]

You need to be a person who knows how to motivate / see talent and how to get the best out of a person. regardless of your pro achievements or lack there off.

[BLACKvoodoo]

Those who can teach, teach and those who can't....teach gym.

[Minion]

I should have excluded coaching from the question, as i do not wish to discuss coaching - as the general forum-goers will most likely not be interested in employing a coach for competative reasons.

I agree with you that the quality of an instructor should be judged by their ability to convey their ideas, not necessarily their own skills at implementing them.

 

In my personal experience, some of the best lecturers and teachers I've had were not research leaders, but they were exceptional teachers. I've also been lectured by at least one professor who was one of the leading experts in his field, if not the expert and he obviously understood his material, but just couldn't explain it in a way that we could understand.