3rd Day

Well, we made it through the 3rd day with no major issues. My fear of course is locking up the front brakes again.  so unfortunately I am not using all my front brake, the cool thing is I am building some confidence back on thinking about the 7 things you have to do while breaking.  I am not the only one struggling either, everyone is , because it is a planned near accident with an escape plan. At least I stopped trembling.
We did a lot of counter steering which came pretty easy, for most of us.Now the exercise you see in this picture below, is a real stickler, its called the  Sickle....I remember from last class how much I detested it and so did others. I saw many a bike dropped in this one.

What it is, is that you are stopped with your front wheel  pointed left., and then having to switch right immediately to go into a sharp you turn out.. Sound simple, looks simple, but as Abdul, the racer  who wanted to pack  it in for the day as he already had had enough. We convinced him to stay and try and he could  be the first to enter,...not so easy after all. All in fun, he stuck  it out for the rest of the day.

We spend the afternoon going through the whole proficiency course working on areas any of us had prolems with. We lost one gal, she was just burned out by noon, had had enough. Hopefully she will return tomorrow. Also we lost a guy, due to work, but I am sort of wondering, if it was do to the fact, it wasn't going to well. We shall see. As for the gal that is having so much trouble, you have to give here credit for taking the course, and she has learned alot now just needs to practice it maybe in bigger measurements on her own bike.

I love the teachers, the are alot of fun, and very very patient, no one feels intimidated by them at all. Gotta run now, wish us luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!