Just a quicky - because I know none of you are crash hot on commitment - I think I have decided the direction for the blogs breakdown. All travel stuff - including the motorcycling aspect - will be posted on 2009-traveldiary.blogspot.com. Only stuff specifically of interest to motorcyclists will be posted here. That means:
Discussions on technique, technique introspectives, and other aspects of rides that will only really resonate with the bikers among us. Stuff on the MotoGP. General bike things. Anything about riding that I don't want my mum to read...
Included in all that technique talk is implicit the idea of developing my ability to help other people with their riding. I am by no means an expert or a pro, and really I'm not that fast or otherwise extraodinarily skilled. Anyone with the right attitude could get to a similar point to me with a year or two of experience. But I am proud of the skills that I have developed, the mature approach I take to riding, and the level of safety and confidence with which I ride. Ultimately, these things I have learnt not through excessive experience (I have gained them mainly through about two years worth of riding, over the last four years), and certainly not through innate ability, but through an introspective and analytical perspective and approach to developing my riding.
This background should make me suitable for helping other people to work on their riding. Should - to be honest, while I like to talk to people about their riding, I don't know much about actually helping them to ride, and can think of few instances of having a concrete impact on anyone's riding.
I had approached James Spence a year or two ago about getting involved in the rider training they do at their race schools - ultimately I didn't have the time, so I didn't really progress down that avenue. Being on the road, it is obviously difficult for me to do anything along those lines, though when I settle down anything that I can work around fulltime work could be a good option.
In the meantime, there will be this blog. I don't know how much help I can offer, but I can certainly think out loud, and we can see where to go from there.
In the news, you might also have heard a couple of details: firstly, I will be leaving Sydney next Thursday - it has gotten to the point where I may as well hang around in Sydney till my sister gets back from overseas. I have also been offered a job with the Victorian Auditor General's Office (VAGO), as a Performance Audit officer/analyst. Their GRAD Scheme starts in February next year, in Melbourne of course. I haven't said yes, but I will, and as long as my second reference doesn't stab me in the back I will be fine.
So this trip, really is a departure - my return home won't be to the home I am departing. And it really is a holiday! Not just an extension of an uncertain future.
Chin chin - don't forget to nod.
--------
@JohnSBaxter
2009-traveldiary.blogspot.com
2009-motorcyclist.blogspot.com
www.jsbaxter.com.au
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment