ORIGINAL: southern_touch9
We are all different but there are clear cut better methods of doing things. Some of the methods may get the person flying faster but they will create a problem down the road.
Example:
You can cut lite ply with a razor blade but it is a lot better to cut it with a saw. Its a given known fact. Just as telling someone to envision them self inside the plane is not a recommended method. Picture 3 - 4 months down the road when they are coming down the field inverted and they start to play with the rudder. Now you have to imagine yourself upside down coming at yourself (in which case there is seemingly no reversal of the controls).
If that is the case, then NO method will help. If you still need a "method" then you shouldn't be learning to use your rudder while flying inverted.
And what's wrong with cutting lite ply with a razor blade? There are times when someone may want a smoother cut than a saw can provide.
Using any "method" to help you is a crutch. So here's an analogy:
You break your leg. Now, you learn to walk again with a crutch.
Would anybody out there say "Don't use that crutch! You'll never be able to walk without one again!!"?
Of course not.
Ok, so now it's years later. You can walk fine, but one day, you twist your ankle, so to avoid falling down, you hold on to a table.
Would anybody out there slap that hand off the table and say, "Don't go back to using a CRUTCH!"?
All that I am saying is that there should never be a method that is ruled out. Personally, I can't picture myself inside the airplane, so that method doesn't work for me. But I may be teaching someone who can VERY EASILY picture themselves inside the airplane, right-side-up, up-side-down, going vertical, or whatever. There is no way in hell that I am going to say to this person "Don't picture yourself inside the plane, because that doesn't work" or "because there's a better way".
For HIM it WORKS. For someone else, something else may work better, but the bottom line is, give a student choices. Let him (or her) find the method that is right for THEM, because they are different than you (and just possibly, better).