KUSHITANI　NEWS

ushitani is proud sponsor of the Freddie Spencer High Performance Riding School, by providing instructors' and rental suits. We were given the opportunity to experience first hand how the school is run, and got the chance to meet the legendary Freddie Spencer.

It's been a rough weekend. Not only is my body tired, but I can't help but feel that the past two days have been mundane - a simple case of letdown after attending the Freddie Spencer School this past Thursday and Friday. Unfortunately the weather wasn't on our side that afternoon, however the students were ready to ride anyways, rain or shine. One on one instructions given to us, and the slower pace made it safe and comfortable for all to learn that day. Not a single student had	Come ride at Freddie Spencer High Performance School. Dont have a suit or a bike set for the track. The school has everything there for you. Our leathers and the Honda 2008 600rr.
In short, I had a blast! I learned a lot, got some great riding time in, and left wanting more of the same. The second day, full of rain and track laps, eclipses the first, but I wouldn't have managed to enjoy the second day nearly as much had they not had us run through the basics, drills, and videotaping on the first day. We all particularly enjoyed (and I use that term loosely) the cone drill, an offset slalom, with instructors yelling our faults at us through bullhorns, and an emergency braking drill, as well as a few others. We did a fair amount of lead-follow to learn the lines, and overall got a great amount of riding time in. We ended the day watching videos of each student, one lap each, with the instructors pointing out our weaknesses and mistakes. It's hard to argue with them (as I had been in my head) with my faults so clearly illustrated on that video.
"On the second day, after the video critique, I I think every student started out riding even better than we had at the end of the first day. It rained all day, which brought everyone's speed down, but allowed us to really work on being smooth.
I was impressed that none of the students crashed despite the wet track. As the day went on, I finally stopped hearing "get your butt off the seat" and instead heard "move closer to the tank" and "get your body completely separated from the motorcycle; clearly, they missed the perfect body position hanging that one corner last lap! a mishap during this rainy class".