Originally Posted by livedarklions

Basically, the bike is self balancing while moving, so most of what we do is actually learning not to mess with that.

My opinion is that there's a lot of ways to teach someone to ride and it almost doesn't matter which non-abusive method you use, but having two people trying to use two different theories must have driven the poor kid nuts. The lesson I would take from that story is one "coach" only, and if you can't decide who, flip a coin.