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Quick Reference Chart
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Structured Training?
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Suitable for experienced riders?
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Upgrade to this course from Confidence Builder or Creaky Rider?
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One to One training?
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Bring a friend?
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Full briefing?
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Full debriefing?
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Course notes?
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Email backup?
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Weekend training?
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Evening training
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Suitability for new riders:
This course is usually suitable for new riders who've recently passed Direct Access, so long as you feel
comfortable on your machine.
If you are looking to build up basic riding skills please take a look at the "Confidence Builder" course first. Returning riders who have not ridden
for a number of years should consider the "Creaky Rider" first.
If you are in any doubt, please contact us to discuss your needs.
For longer term riders, the training is flexible enough to cope with a rider of some years experience who wants a new challenge.
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Survival Skills 2 Day Advanced Course
Our original advanced course exploring the core advanced riding techniques.
The course is suitable for most riders with a full licence looking to improve their riding. It is equally applicable to motorcycles or automatic scooters.
One day of this course can be taken in France:
This course can be taken in Montgomery (mid-Wales), Tideswell (Peak District) and Dartmouth (Devon):
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Survival Skills 3 Day SuperCourse
Why not add an extra day to your two day Survival Skills course?
After first cementing the core advanced skills as per the two day course, the extra day will be an extended ride out to cover more complex bend technique in a scenic environment,
including hairpin and decreasing radius bends, whilst investigating more complex cornering techniques such as trail braking, pre-leaning and body-shifting.
One day of this course can be taken in France:
This course can be taken in Montgomery (mid-Wales), Tideswell (Peak District) and Dartmouth (Devon):
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Survival Skills 4 Day SuperCourse
If you're looking for the ultimate in advanced rider training, you must take a look at the Survival Skills Four Day SuperCourse.
You'll cover the core advanced skills content of the two day Survival Skills course on the first two days.
The third day will be spent on an extended rural ride on challenging roads, learning additional bend techniques like
body-shifting and pre-leaning, hairpin technique and learning trail braking into bends to deal with unexpected hazards and decreasing radius turns.
The final day will cover such issues as collision avoidance, advanced urban riding skills and an introduction to rider psychology and "brain training
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One day of this course can be taken in France:
This course can be taken in Montgomery (mid-Wales), Tideswell (Peak District) and Dartmouth (Devon):
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Course Content
The Survival Skills advanced course covers three main areas:
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Defensive Skills - designed to introduce ideas new to motorcycle training such as risk management, as well as the better known theoretical and practical aspects of hazard identification and assessment, and
systematic riding. At the end of the course you will know not only when progress can be made but where and why slow would be better!
- Machine Control Skills - this part of the course covers steering, throttle and braking skills, and slow speed control in detail.
- Cornering Skills - offers a comprehensive plan for dealing with bends on the open road including "Point and Squirt" cornering compared with classic "Maximum Radius" lines.
- Extra days on the 3 day and 4 day SuperCourses build on the core skills.
 Courses use a building block approach to learn core
skills, avoiding the risk of teaching a skill which demands prior knowledge of some other technique, a problem that can arise during unstructured training.
At the same time, courses are flexible enough that the depth and content can be adjusted to take into account the prior knowledge and ability of the trainee, thus moving forward at the right pace to
be challenging to all abilities. You are not locked into a rigid course which may be inappropriate to your own riding standard - you won't get bored or pushed too fast.
Format of the course
Sessions usually commence at 10am, beginning with a briefing over a coffee (allowing you to revive after the ride to meet us) followed by a short discussion. On the first day, a short
assessment ride will follow  before we we begin to introduce and work through exercises to
improve your riding. We pause for a short break for tea and a bite to eat mid course on both days. We end each day around 3pm with a debrief.
On the second day, the final ride will be a reassessment and comments and suggestions for your future improvement will be discussed. We will be honest about your progress and will advise if
we feel you need to spend more time on training - courses are described as open-ended for that reason.
 You will cover around 75-80 miles on each day on a
mixture of roads - twisty country roads, busy town traffic and fast roads. Routes have been carefully researched to provide increasingly complex challenges as the course progresses. A short off
-road session will cover emergency braking and slow control techniques.
On the third day of the 3 day SuperCourse, a longer ride will take in more demanding roads.
Training is normally done on a 1:1 basis. If, however, you wish to take training with a friend or
partner, we will be happy to arrange that and the second rider will qualify for a 50% discount.
Logistics and teaching
Survival Skills courses use professional quality Motorola bike to bike radios, allowing real-time coaching and correction.
Course content has been researched in depth, is exhaustively tested and subject to continual review and improvement. Courses are structured and employ proven teaching techniques.
Outcome goals are set based on your riding needs. Using the "learning loop" of explanation, demonstration, practice and correction, you are set clearly understandable and achievable goals
at all times.
You will be provided with a lesson plan and brief course notes, and if weather permits, video footage will be available for review at the end of the course.
In short we aim to bring each trainee to the highest standard of riding he or she can achieve by offering you ideas to make you THINK about your riding, rather than forcing you to ride to a
particular style or learning to do it parrot fashion to pass a test.
Quite simply YOU, the trainee, come first at Survival Skills!
So why settle for less? Book a Survival Skills course now for the very best in qualified, independent advanced training.
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