[Ian J]

Completely agree. Had some very arrogant/ mean instructors in Army flight school and pretty much learned from them what not to do.

I think thats a great technique for when a student freezes on the controls... I plan to utilize that. Have this one guy who has difficulty taxiing (he's brand new) and freezes up when drifting too close to the taxi-way edge. I have basically had to muscle the airplane back to center-line. A good distraction for him would have helped, I think.