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I would do one day or half-day first to get the basics, and do an hour or two once in a while to follow-up on the first lesson and work on more specific things.
It was there that I learned the fundamentals of cornering and that you can only go as fast as your brakes will allow and always trust a multi time national champion to tow you over a massive step up step down. That was the first time I ever bent triple clamps on a bike.
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I will definitely look into more options in the future, but was just curious what the best option was right now with that amount of money to spend on instruction. I've taken a lesson in the past and found it way too easy and with it only being an hour, by the time the instructor was like "yeah, your beyond this", it was almost over.
My thoughts on a pro riding coach is that they can better recognize my technique or lack there of and skill level immediately and modify the lesson from there. On the other hand, I don't want to spend 4 hours just trying to perfect my body position entering a corner. Essentially I'm looking to make as much 'overall' progress as I can for $275/+-
I didn't want to fill up my head with too many things so I had asked to start with a couple basics and we went over body position and cornering. This was just the beginning of this month and I have been practicing the things I learned. I am going to schedule a lesson next month to review the progress I have made and move onto a few more techniques. I am going to continue this until I get to a good spot where I am happy with my riding.
I am not looking to be the next Dungey but I want to be able to ride a typical normal track without rolling any jumps and feel confident and safe while riding.
Just changing my body position has been a challenge and slowed me way down but I understand how important it is so I am dealing with it.
I was invited to be a coach at a regional MSF instruction day not too long ago. After the event, several of the organizers told me that the rider feedback indicated I was their favorite instructor of the day, even though I've never been a pro and there were pros there teaching. (It was a large class broken into groups that rotated between instructors.) I was confident that I had something to teach all those guys, even though some of them had numbers and clearly raced. My years of experience gave me some more depth and insight than the usual, "keep your elbows up" MX instruction.(Incidentally, I went to a Tony D. Motocross school once and I was faster and more experienced than both of his guys that day. It made it awkward, to say the least.)
It's for this reason that I'd say pick the private lesson option, an hour at a time. If you don't learn anything, try a different guy. At least you won't be out $275.
Pit Row
I know from personal experience that it works in the 4-wheel racing world. I've done some road racing in my past, and thought I was driving pretty good until I did a ride along with a true professional driver in my car. I was definitely in the panic mode through every corner and I wasn't even driving! I had no idea my car, or any car, could do the things it did. However, after a weekend of riding shotgun my mind got used to the speed and I no longer freaked out. Now, at least my mind knew what was possible and it was just a matter of applying the techniques prescribed by the instructor. I gained quite a bit of speed that year but as with everything, use it or lose it.
One of the great things about lessons is riding sections of the track over and over. Really helps you work on specific problems.
Here is a video of me during my lesson taken by my instructor while we were working on corners.
1) proper bike setup
2) braking, you can't go fast unless you can stop fast!
^^^^^ this is exactly how I feel and why I'm doing this.
Pretty cool idea and I like how they are trying to make it available to everyone.
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I see what you did there.
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