Took a Precision Riding Clinic here in Boise this past weekend. 16 hours of riding in two days. As an every day rider for the past six years, I was shocked that my arms were so sore, especially my left hand since it was just non stop clutching. It was taught by a motorpatrol officer along with two other instructors. A few people dropped their bikes, and one self elimanated themself. The drills were similar to most motor patrol training athough the spacing of the cones were spread out a farther apart to accomodate all types of bikes. Also practiced doing 40 mph quick stops and even practiced group riding, transitioning from single file, to staggard to two abreast. And group parking and pulling out. There is a system believe it or not, your group can either look like pros or look like a circus.
The Flying W, three consecutive u turns. I try to challenge myself by making the tightest turns and not utilizing the entire real estate.
Snowman, pictured at this time there were only two circles, but they added a 3rd later, the diameter of each circle decreased by one foot. You enter the first circle, do one and a half circle and exit into the next circle going in the opposite direction and do another one and a half circle and enter the final circle and complete your last circles.
They keep incorportating new drills, like the Cloverleaf, not pictured and others and eventually they will have you do all of them in succession, and depending how fast you go, it could take you over a minute to complete them, and you just keep doing them, over and over again without stopping. It was like motorcycle boot camp. We also played follow the leader a lot, following the rider in front of you in a tight formation as we went through some of the drills. But at the end of the day, I left as a better rider leaving the class than when I arrived.
The Flying W, three consecutive u turns. I try to challenge myself by making the tightest turns and not utilizing the entire real estate.
Snowman, pictured at this time there were only two circles, but they added a 3rd later, the diameter of each circle decreased by one foot. You enter the first circle, do one and a half circle and exit into the next circle going in the opposite direction and do another one and a half circle and enter the final circle and complete your last circles.
They keep incorportating new drills, like the Cloverleaf, not pictured and others and eventually they will have you do all of them in succession, and depending how fast you go, it could take you over a minute to complete them, and you just keep doing them, over and over again without stopping. It was like motorcycle boot camp. We also played follow the leader a lot, following the rider in front of you in a tight formation as we went through some of the drills. But at the end of the day, I left as a better rider leaving the class than when I arrived.
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Or "Don't cross the double yellow right there" and my favorite "watch that car's bumper, don't want to hit it." :spank: 
