INTRODUCTION — ONE STEP AHEAD
Since the introduction in this Country of the RoadCraft System, advanced motorcycling training has dramatically progressed and attracted a large audience. Designed to increase the safety of police riders operating in fast-changing conditions, the system provides a simple but effective way to maintain control and progress of any motorcycle in all conditions of traffic, road surface and weather. The RoadCraft system is addressed to riders with experience after obtaining the legal licence, and it is not designed as an “introduction to biking. It requires an excellent capacity to control the vehicle in speed and direction.
In this optic, the application of the system requires a high level of education and self-evaluation for the riders accessing the training: it also requires that such a level of education is maintained at all times. Therefore, only a rider with proper awareness of limits and competence, with respect for all road users and with a desire for self-improvement can benefit from the application of the system.
“Education is one of the most effective ways of making our world and history more human”. Education is identifying, learning, appropriating and applying new ideas, concepts, and ways of thinking and acting. Training is putting what is learned into practice, absorbing a new way of thinking and acting repetitively.
After decades dedicated to education and on-the-road training, we want now, with PRO CAMP, to elevate our search for a deeper level of knowledge, searching for that better person and better rider inside us — a new education process.
The ROADCRAFT manual opens with a reference to the” other half” of the bike, the human riding it. In the hands of an uneducated or poorly educated pilot, the motorcycle may rapidly turn into a dangerous weapon, a gun with a double-ended barrel, lethal for the user and the creatures around it.
This is why we want to raise the “training program” to train our awareness, understanding, culture and virtues that can make us better, more respectful biker.
Learning the technique of bike control and the skills necessary to move on two wheels is, in the end, relatively easy. A good trainer can teach the entire process in a few hours.
Learning and applying is a longer, never-ending process: one can learn in theory the best line around a corner or the safest system for overtaking, and one can practice both skills several times and “learn the practice”.
To transform the “learned” into the formal discipline of behaviour every time in every circumstance, one needs a level of self-awareness and humility not typically found in our society. Several virtues come into action to be able to evaluate the action versus the learned theory, to understand and accept the limits without being discouraged, to persevere in each ride, and to search for excellence by respecting humans, animals and the environment.
Without virtues and self-awareness, learning skills is just an empty self-congratulatory memory process. Education is the engine; training is the work on the saddle. The motto “Riding is a way of thinking” indicates the need to prepare for riding by studying, learning, evaluating and placing what is known into action.
It demands a better me as a person, aspiring to consistent excellence.
