Lack of a plan is like a lack of Reference Points.
Here’s my plan to earn an instructor’s slot at the CSS:
Skill-Building
1. Build mad-skills on my new-to-me Ninja250
2. Get to SPR and NJMP trackdays every chance I get
3. Learn suspension by Sampling
4. October 2011 Cornerspin @ North Carolina
5. March 2012 Level II @ Streets of Willow
6. Graduate to an SV650, get my WERA racing license
7. 2012 Race Season in CCS and/or WERA
8. August 2012 Level III @ VIR (Virginia International Raceway)
9. March 2013 Level IV @ Thunderbolt
10. 2013 Race Season in CCS and/or WERAConditioning
Conditioning
1. For stamina, 0530h for Spin
2. For Muscle Confusion, 0530h Total Conditioning
3. For flexy and balance, Bikram Hot Yoga
4. For core strength, posture and balance, Pilates
5. For reflexes, mountain biking in Patapsco State Park
KNOWLEDGE-WINNING
1. Read all the Code Break books
2. Keep Cobie updated
3. Establish correspondence with Rick May
2smoker SuMo:
- Smooth, precise Throttle control
- Increase Cornerspeed
- Improve my Sensing of Speed
- Get a feel for sliding on ~DoT tires
- Keep it off it’s pokey hard parts, like its centerstand, on Summit Point Shenandoah
- Braking & Downshifting
- Two-Step
- Quick-Turn
- Wide-Vision, soft-eyes
- Maintaining weight distributions front/rear in different traction situations.
- Braking drills
- Steering drills
Cornerspin Racing School In The Dirt:
- Sliding
All Bikes
- Be not the Bad-Craftsman-That-Blames-His-Tools
- Learn to ride anything, well
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Plan
2012 :: senses & visuals
- sense o speed (no brakes all season)
- vision (TRP, MRP, XRP, wide, soft, no)
- lanes drill
- memory laps
- 2step / 3step
- quickturn
2013 :: movements on bike
- bod pos
- weight distro
- pivot steer
- knee2knee
- hipflick
- pickup drill
2014 :: advanced topics
- hook turn
- axis of attack
2015 :: controls
- throttle
- countersteering
- clutch
- frbrake
- rrbrake