Teaching adjusting technique well depends on consideration of many factors associated with the three domains of learning (cognitive, affective and psychomotor). The psychomotor domain in particular is uniquely important because, like sport, success is dependant on physical performance. It is in the 2nd year technique laboratory at the Anglo-European College of Chiropractic that students are first introduced to the adjustment. Over the course of the last few years teaching strategies have been developed which incorporate some of the tactics used in sports coaching combined with concepts found in literature on psychomotor learning. This paper examines and reports on the strategies which are used in teaching a student the intricacies of performing a spinal adjustment.