My superbike mad skills plan

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

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My Intent for these different bikes:

2smoker SuMo:
  1. Smooth, precise Throttle control
  2. Increase Cornerspeed
  3. Improve my Sensing of Speed
  4. Get a feel for sliding on ~DoT tires
Ninja250:
  1. Keep it off it’s pokey hard parts, like its centerstand, on Summit Point Shenandoah
  2. Braking & Downshifting
  3. Two-Step
  4. Quick-Turn
  5. Wide-Vision, soft-eyes
  6. Maintaining weight distributions front/rear in different traction situations.
  7. Braking drills
  8. Steering drills

Cornerspin Racing School In The Dirt:

  1. Sliding

All Bikes

  1. Be not the Bad-Craftsman-That-Blames-His-Tools
  2. Learn to ride anything, well

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CR80 2-stroker

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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

  1. throttle
  2. countersteering
  3. clutch
  4. frbrake
  5. rrbrake

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