SSD, I suspect you sell yourself short. In my experience people who first learn to fly in the gliding environment have much better lookout drummed into them and also seem to pick up a lot of general ground-based airmanship and learning, from activities such as extensive ground-handling of delicate structures, rigging and de-rigging, ballasting for C of G, and so on. And hangar-packing/unpacking - that's something that gliding clubs tend to be really good at. Not claiming any moral superiority, it's just the experience you get and the things that a good gliding CFI will instil in people.