An example? A mentoring session for me would not even necessarily involve getting on a motorcycle.Originally Posted by Squiggles
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An example? A mentoring session for me would not even necessarily involve getting on a motorcycle.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
C'mon lets ride....
You'll need to expand on that. I would imagine rider trainers would do similar when required. For instance video sessions.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
"Every time you set your ass on a bike, you're playing a game of Russian Roulette between yourself and your own stupidity."
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Ok - it might not even involve talking about motorcycles.
C'mon lets ride....
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This could be usefull to other mentors.
"Every time you set your ass on a bike, you're playing a game of Russian Roulette between yourself and your own stupidity."
Like I've said Bonez - it's a mental attitude.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
C'mon lets ride....
You're right. This, I imagine, is why poos bought the subject up in the first place.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
"Every time you set your ass on a bike, you're playing a game of Russian Roulette between yourself and your own stupidity."
And that's why I also have reservations about some of the mentors (and have said so from the start).This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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Yeah... it's also being able to ride a fucking motorcycle. That helps too. And I think that's kinda what Mr Poos is bothered about. And his point is well-founded.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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C'mon lets ride....
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"Every time you set your ass on a bike, you're playing a game of Russian Roulette between yourself and your own stupidity."
I don't think it's so much about being able to ride a motorcycle - I believe it's about the attitude you bring to the ride. People, given the right attitude, can safely learn all they neeed to know about motorcycling in their own sweet time.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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Hard to argue with that.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
If a 'mentor' has difficulty with, say, going round corners, or braking quickly and retaining control, though, I'd have to ask whether, having shown an inability to control a motorcycle well after the requisite "I've been riding for THIS long!" quantity of experience, they were suitable to 'mentor' anything or anyone.
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Mentors - not trained to teach and unqualified
Trainers - trained and qualified
If it was a popularity contest and there wasn't very careful vetting Katman would never have gotten through. The wah brigade would have made damn sure he never got to be a mentor - but none of them had ever ridden with the guy or been adviced by him. We checked with people that had done both and their opinions were not the same as those who call him a prick.
The negative feedback was by far the most important. We always expected truckloads of positive feedback and got plenty of it, but it was the negative that we looked very closely at. Negative feedback from those known to have personality clashes with the candidate in question was taken with a grain of salt as personal motivations for the feedback could not be entirely ruled out. However, even the negative feedback wasn't consistant and there were no discernable patterns. Basically, none of the individual pieces of negative feedback on a candidate agreed with any other. If none of the feedback agreed then it's a single persons opinion and not that of a range of people, and it was a range of people showing a pattern for things like yes candidate xxxx is often irresponsible and encourages people to pop wheelies at every opportunity that are important.
Cowboyz withdrew before he got into the bitch fighting. You'll have to ask him why.
Hitcher is purely administrative and actively refuses to Mentor people. We agreed upon that before he took up the role as Senior Mentor for the Lower North Island region and is a Senior Mentor in name only.
The Central North Island has probably been the quietest region. Most likely due to the demographics of the area. It was never expected that the Mentors would be run off their feet but there has been steady activity.
The Mentor system isn't perfect and never will be. However, it is achieving what it was intended to do and a review of the entire thing won't be done for a long time yet.
Zen wisdom: No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously. - obviously had KB in mind when he came up with that gem
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Underneath it all, you just want to be loved, right?This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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