Skid Pad
In your own vehicle or in ours, this course helps build the fundamental skills required for advanced car control. Learn emergency braking, regaining control in a skid, collision avoidance and much more. We aim to make care control an instinctive response to the driver, such that they have extra capacity for rapid decision making and situational awareness in high stress situations, like avoiding an accident. With one on one guidance from our expert instructors you will receive instant feedback to gain the confidence required when things go sideways.
What Is Included?
We offer 2 packages for our skid pad course; 1.5 hour and 2.5 hour course. In each package instructors will gauge the students progression and make adjustments to the lesson plan to best fit the students needs. These courses can be taken multiple times until the student feels confident in their skills, or can be tailored to the students needs. Please reach out to us for custom courses to help you with a specific need.
When and Where?
These courses are held on our mixed surface skid pad venues. Remember mixed surfaces give you more time to learn these fundamental skills which can be applied to any road and condition, summer or winter. See our schedule section for the next available course.
What Do I Need?
This course is designed for drivers with some previous driving experience and must be 16+ years of age. Students should be comfortable with driving and stopping a vehicle at slow to medium speeds. Don’t worry if you have no previous driving experience we offer a Young Drivers package too, to teach you the fundamentals of operating a vehicle. A drivers licence is not required for this course. The course can be conducted in your own vehicle or in one of our training vehicles.
Should I Prepare Beforehand?
Students are provided with a steering and setting tutorial prior to the start of the course. It is highly recommended that students review this material and practice in an empty parking lot prior to the start of the course. The steering technique is the basics on which our course is built and will be the first exercise students partake in. Any practice beforehand will make the training day more enjoyable.Additionally, students have the option to take part in an interactive 2-3 hour classroom ahead of time, with our lead instructor. Here we will cover the fundamental theories which students will practice during the course. This is also a chance for you to share stories and ask questions from our expert lead instructor.The class is included with each package, it is optional, but recommended.
Level One includes the fundamentals required for car control, students will participate in the following drills:
Hand over hand steering exercise; we believe this is the only steering technique for advanced car control and daily driving.
Regaining control in a skid
Braking in slippery conditions
Freestyle Drift Recovery - understanding side to side weight transfer at medium speeds
Collision Avoidance - A culmination of all of the previous skills where we teach you to avoid an unexpected obstacle in the middle of the road.
Level two includes everything covered in level one, plus the following drills:
Balance Circles (Circle Skidpad) - Feeling understeer and neutral balance
Pendulum Turns - Advanced weight transfer
Evenly spaced slalom - Driving line, vision, compounding corners
Unevenly spaced slalom