Police Advanced (Motorcycling) Riding Techniques DVD

Want to improve your observation and road riding smoothness , watch and learn then put into practice 👍😉

I used this DVD in conjunction with the Institute of Advanced Motorists' handbook 'How to become a better rider' as preparation for passing the IAM Advanced Motorcyclist's test. I found the DVD extremely helpful. Its main focus is on explaining the 'visual or limit point' to adjust speed into and out of bends and learning the 'visual links' to anticipate the direction the road will be going. It gives guidance on positioning, lines through a series of bends and on overtaking. It certainly helps to train one to look much further ahead up the road than one is used to and consequently to be a smoother rider because potential/real hazards are spotted much sooner and a 'riding plan' formulated in good time. Technically, one of the sequences was, unfortunately, filmed through a wet windscreen and the raindrops detracted from the overall quality of the production. Did it help in my encounter with the examiner? Yes it did, and I can recommend it to others. The DVD arrived, securely packaaged, the day after I placed my order.

So what do you get - one DVD, well produced in a thin DVD case. Professionally done, and gives the general overview you'd expect to see on a case.The DVD autostarts to a standard menu, no roaring sounds of bikes, or flash photographs showing all many of roads and bikes on them, just an icon that you click on!DVD fires up and you meet Mike, the guy who shows you how its done.The DVD is basically split up in to three sections, basic techniques, various ride outs reiterating the techniques you are shown at the beginning, and the final part of being out on a ride with instructors and punters... Does it work? Totally! The techniques are shown very clearly and repeated constantly throughout the DVD. Putting the techniques into the ride realyl does hammer it home showing where you want to be and what you want to be doing, be it gearing, position or where to look.It is very clear Mike knows what his doing and comes across as a person who HAS been instructing for years. Stunning commentary throughout does put you in the feel of the ride and what is going through your mind when you are there.The commentary is backed up with some stunning shots from on the bike, of the bike, elevated at the rear of the bike by a trailing car, on the road side when the bikes ride pass, its always the best shot to show what you need to be doing. Good camera work throughout.The thing that makes the whole thing incredibly easy to watch and enjoyable is Mike, the words and phrase's you hear really shows a guy who has told a million students the same thing a million times.Getting this DVD WILL aid your riding to be much safer and oddly much quicker through control, observation and positioning. The other thing you will also know that everyone who has watched it will at some point during a ride out, commute to work or down the pub, say to themselves or to their mates.... "lets pick up them daisy's", "I want to know what his had for breakfast" and my favourite "his a volvo driver, so his bound to brake"If money is tight think of it this way, forfeit a couple of decent bacon and egg butties, on the next couple of ride outs and you have the DVD - you'll be lighter and better equipped for the road - no brainer then!

I wish I had gone on a course with Mike when he did them, he's retired now....but he could still smoke me though?I have been on tracks and been taught all the things that seem so alien to a road rider - that you don't do it at all - out of instinct.I know that I will never be a Steve Hyslop or Mick Doohan....Rossi, Marquez etc.BUT, I ride my bike to work, for fun and sometimes because I do want to push myself...we all do - even a Copper I know has 9 points for speeding on his bike...yet they tell us?You can see why, after the Police are trained to such a high level of observation etc...of course they are going to practice what they know, I bet they have to to keep their chops up to scratch.Mike has such an engaging way of getting over what he wants to say... like one of the really good teachers at school we all knew - and funnily enough, the one NOBODY messed about in his class, because he made you think, learn and practice what he just said... in a no nonsense but straight way, pushing on and bringing the whole class along with him... because he explained it so well, that the kids on the back row, who where usually the biggest pains, where asking questions. Finally being treated like all the rest, and actually learning for the first time in ages...they got engaged...and boy did they learn.Mike is an excellent rider of course, but we 99% use the roads, as he does, and you will learn so much.Watch it once and you think, "OK that was alright, I'll do a bit of that at the weekend then and see if it helps"You WILL come home and watch it again, and again, and never stop tiring of watching it, as your ears will pick up on a phrase or two, and you think,"Hold on? - I've seen this twice - yet I never heard that bit???- No wonder this or that felt a bit wrong"A truly magic piece of work, and I know, as I have emailed Mike a lot, he values like mad what we think - as his goal is to help people, he is putting something back into the transportation he loves.I know he was also a Police car driver too at a high level, but he gives away his real passion... as he made a bike DVD !Well done Mike, and good health and ride as much as possible.I still watch this DVD with a three month break...and it always washes over me like new... too much information for one viewing....when you really want to improve, you will stick in the old DVD again and again, when the Wife is out of course LOL.Well done Mike, wish you'd do some more?