Learning is a very individual activity. As a RiderCoach of Motorcyclist Education, a primary condition used in adult learning is the dynamic environment or context where someone is personally engaged in the content of the course. Education facilitators strive to reach a group of students and also be able to attend to an individual’s needs by engaging each individual where they are. Conversely, using the social context of the small group environment can accelerate learning by providing immediate feedback and reinforcement to students from within the group. …
By playing What If? A motorcyclist can predict where hazards are and begin to avoid them before they happen. Use the Search Evaluate Execute (SEE) strategy continuously. Seek and anticipate what other highway users may do in situations by making good advanced decisions.
As we begin the Third Year of weekly get-togethers for the RiderCoach community, it is hard not to reflect on all the territory we have covered and more importantly the effect each individual of the community provides to the group. We are better together. …
By playing What If? A motorcyclist can predict where hazards are and begin to avoid them before they happen. Use the Search Evaluate Execute (SEE) strategy continuously. Scan consistently, think beyond the moment, and anticipate bad situations by making good advanced decisions.
A common misperception attached to taking the sometimes-mandatory Basic Rider Course is that graduates have every skill necessary to ride safely on the road. What the basic course does provide is minimal exposure to motorcycle control and an introduction to the perceptual and mental skills necessary to operate a motorcycle on the road. …
Escape paths can be narrower for a motorcycle than for a car. By playing What If? a motorcycle can predict where to swerve for the best escape path. Scan consistently and think beyond what is happening at the moment, anticipate bad situations. Use the Search Evaluate Execute (SEE) strategy continuously.
By Dr. Donald L. Green, 22 February, 2022 (a Twos-day)
Riding a motorcycle gives a physical and emotional feeling unlike any other form of transportation and movement, one that “if you have to ask about it, you wouldn’t understand.” The wind pressing against our bodies and smells of the places we ride, a closeness to the road, the world, and other riders create a craving to get out there and do it again. Most of us have clear mental pictures of the internal happiness formed by those extraordinary rides. Our souls are calmed and rejuvenated enough to push through another day of hard work to get back in the saddle to become one with our machines again. …
