*** TRAINING *** What does Survival Skills offer you?
Whether you’ve newly discovered my rider training school, or whether you’ve been following me for a while, I thought I’d just remind you what Survival Skills offers motorcyclists at all levels of riding.
LOOKING TO GET STARTED – as I am not an ‘ATB’ (approved training body) I can’t conduct Compulsory Basic Training (CBT) nor can I issue CBT certificates. But I can help out with advice that can help you understand what CBT is all about, and to prepare for the course – right now I’m in the middle of a series of articles about getting kitted up to ride – and I can help you too with advice about the skills you’ll need to complete the off-road parts of the day. CBT finishes with a road ride lasting a minimum of two hours and there are plenty of articles on my Ko-Fi pages to help you get to grips with riding on real roads and coping with traffic.
RIDING ON L PLATES – if I’m honest, this is the area where I think help and advice for bikers at any level is most lacking. There’s plenty of options for riders who’ve passed their bike test, but post CBT, you’re left pretty much on your own. But unfortunately, as the stats show, it’s the time when we’re actually most vulnerable. In my honest opinion, after delivering several thousand CBT courses, it’s not adequate preparation for today’s roads. It’s a bare-bone course of training offering just enough skills and knowledge to get you out of the gate of the training school without killing yourself. But once that CBT certificate is your hands, you’re on your own. So once again, there’s the written articles on my Ko-Fi pages which will help clue you in to dealing with specific situations out on the road before you have to figure out the solution in the middle of a scary moment.
NEW FULL LICENCE HOLDER – so you’re holding your shiny new licence and on your own machine. Great. But don’t think you’ve nailed it. There’s plenty more still to learn, and once again Survival Skills is here for you with hundreds of better biking articles to help you make avoid the classic rookie errors that catch out so many new riders. Once more, there are hundreds of articles online, plus my books and YouTube videos, all aimed at helping your development as a more rounded rider. And of course, I also offer my Confidence: BUILDER on-road training and there’s online coaching available if you’re too far away.
EXPERIENCED RIDER – Survival Skills can also help take your riding to another level altogether. Many of my written articles are designed to get you thinking beyond the obvious, and to get you asking questions about what you think you know. My ‘Survival SKILLS’ paperback gives you something that’s missing from any other course of training, and that’s a step-by-step and fully structured course of DIY advanced training. On the road, my advanced courses will also get you rethinking your riding, whatever level you’re at and whatever qualifications you hold – many experienced riders use them as a ‘sanity check’ just to reassure themselves they’re not doing anything daft. My online coaching sessions can help fill in theory gaps and give you support for specific areas where you have questions.
FACEBOOK – I’ve been writing articles here on Facebook since 2012. The popular TIPS on TUESDAY and SKILLS on SATURDAY series have been regulars since mid-2013, offering very practical riding advice that are accessible to all levels of rider. The FOCUS on FRIDAY series is less regular but delves into the background of riding, asking questions we often forget to consider, or filling in important gaps in thinking.
THE Ko-Fi ARCHIVE – because FB is such a pain to search, I realised there was a need for an archive of older posts, so since Jan 2014 can be found almost EVERY article in the TIPS on TUESDAY and SKILLS on SATURDAY series has been copied over (and usually rewritten and updated) to my site at http://www.ko-fi.com/survivalskills. There’s a small monthly fee of £3 to access almost 1000 better biking articles. And there’s even more content for subscribers. Take a look. There’s FREE STUFF too, plus inexpensive downloads looking at specific topics! If there is a BIGGER RESOURCE FOR BIKERS anywhere online, I’d be surprised.
THE PAPERBACK BOOKS – my three books make a set. ‘Survival SKILLS’ (a fully-structured DIY guide to developing your riding complete with practical exercises), ‘Tarmac Tactics’ (a book designed to improve your situational awareness wherever you ride from city centre to mountain top) and ‘MIND over MOTORCYCLE’ (a deep dive into the mental game of riding a motorcycle) offer very different but equally valid perspectives of just how we learn and develop as riders.
THE YOUTUBE CHANNELS – can’t be bothered to watch a twenty minute video on biking? There’s some great content on the world’s biggest source of biking videos but I often struggle to watch many of them – they’re just too long. So the ’60 Second Safety’ video series is designed to be just the opposite – a short and concise look at just one issue that identifies a problem area and offers a solution. Right now, there are over one hundred of these short videos for you to watch. Look out for more content coming soon!
PRESENTATIONS TO GROUPS & CLUBS – if you happen to be a member of a group or a club, I’m always happy to put on a talk for you. Just drop me a line.
SCIENCE OF BEING SEEN & NO SURPRISE? NO ACCIDENT! – motorcycles have been around for more than one hundred years. And despite more and more legislation, compulsory training, and a vastly increased take-up of advanced training courses, riders are STILL having the same one hundred year old crashes the very first riders had. The Science Of Being Seen and No Surprise? No Accident! projects aim to get motorcyclists and safety organisations alike thinking about rider safety in a different ways, and to break the pattern.
And finally, don’t forget the…
DOCTOR’S SURGERY – whatever level you ride at, if you have a specific question, drop me a line and I’ll do my best to answer. A 100% personalised response, all for free. What more can you ask for?
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