Performance School Orientation for Students:

From approximately 8:45am until 9am, 2Fast students go through an additional briefing in our classroom. We use this time between the rider meeting and our first on-track session to cover critical details we do not want to spend time on during our classroom and on-track sessions. Some of these details are:

• Instructor Introduction
• Procedures and format for the day
• Understanding what the Performance School is…and is not.
• How to find and get help from our instructors
• Recommendations on how to maximize your performance school experience

We also discuss the issue of “time management” in our orientation: every student is expected to hustle off of the track at the end of each session, park their bike, remove helmet and gloves, and get back to the classroom as quickly as they can. Each new class segment begins roughly 2 minutes after an on-track session has finished – so there’s very little time to waste. Therefore, we ask students and instructors to hustle onto the track – and off – with each new session so we can maximize our teaching time.

From 9am until 9:30am, students will be taught relaxation techniques that allow the rider to become smoother with their motions, more fluid in their riding, and more controlled on/off the track. Learning to breathe, learning to relax the hands, arms, and body, and limiting how hard you push are discussion topics of this session. Also a discussion on what to do when things go wrong, helping you as a rider to regain composure, to continue your riding experience.

• Fear & Stress, and How They’re Different from PANIC
• What to Do When Things Go Wrong
• What Not to Do When Things Go Wrong
• Reprogramming: How to Train the Mind to React Correctly when Fearful Situations Occur

With the 200 Intermediate riders heading out on track at 9:20am, we continue to teach our curriculum and save the last 5 minutes in the performance school as our “Q&A Period.” Roughly from 9:30am to 9:35am. Then, upon the time the Intermediate Level 200 on-track session ends, Relaxed Level 100 students hit the track (9:40am – 10am) for their own on-track session. This classroom/on-track/Q&A format will repeat itself with each session throughout the day. Again, we will be timing our sessions and starting each session quickly and promptly, so students are asked to waste no time between on-track sessions and making it back to the classroom. Take roughly 5 minutes to debrief with your on-track instructor after the session, then get back to the classroom, as Mark will be starting the next session at roughly 5 minutes after the hour. Our goal is to give students the greatest amount of teaching time possible: therefore, we ask for everyone’s cooperation in hustling back to the classroom promptly.

From 11:00am to 11:30am, students are now becoming familiar with the track, the lines around the track, and the improvements in body positioning that we have been illustrating for them. We now move to a discussion on proper braking techniques.

• Front Brakes vs Rear Brakes
• Smooth Technique
• Various Braking Zones
• Trail Braking
• Engine Braking
• Controlling Wheel Hop

From 1pm until 1:30pm, we next discuss one of the most abused and misused controls on a bike:

• Techniques for Proper Acceleration
• Proper Use of Each Bike’s Powerband
• Shifting Technique
• Mid-Corner Throttle and its Importance to Steering

From 3 pm until 3:30 pm, the 2Fast classroom will take people and actually put them on a bike that is stationary, or is mounted on the lean machine, to work on the Body Positioning Techniques

• Straights Position
• Setup Position
• Mid Corner Position
• Exit “The Move” Position
• We discuss how these are just 4 snap shots in time of how you move through the whole Body Positioning paradigm
• When and where to perform these body positions (body timing)
• Little tricks and techniques to help you obtain this solid Body Position