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Sign up for military service for a few years and get paid 3 meals a day a bed to sleep in some camping involving occasionally shooting things free clothing and if you are lucky you can also get a couple of chick magnets pinned on yer manly chest oh and free dental and medical Whats not to like
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I joined my local 4x4 response team with a view to helping doctors get where they need to go in heavy snow or whatever and it quickly became apparent meetingswere held in cafes or the like owned by "friends" wanting to drum up business .
Talk was all about how everybody must have the latest toy/gadget/ribbon that the fella with the brand new Range Rover has .
A checklist of about 30 items including enough food to last 2 people a week .
Think i made it to about 3 meetings before giving up and as irony would have it the next time i seen them was months later around the December snows where i very nearly rammed into a bunch of muppets in Lamedrovers playing with recovery gear in the dark blocking the entire road just over the brow of the steep hill a couple of hundred yards from my house , a road i use every day which was white with enough snow to make a pensioner wearing sandals a little cautious
There is always something to learn but theres no greater teacher than experience . Any training facility will surely keep you a half mile from danger for insurance purposes .
Your money would be far better spent going to visit Clive in Romania I reckon .
Talk was all about how everybody must have the latest toy/gadget/ribbon that the fella with the brand new Range Rover has .
A checklist of about 30 items including enough food to last 2 people a week .
Think i made it to about 3 meetings before giving up and as irony would have it the next time i seen them was months later around the December snows where i very nearly rammed into a bunch of muppets in Lamedrovers playing with recovery gear in the dark blocking the entire road just over the brow of the steep hill a couple of hundred yards from my house , a road i use every day which was white with enough snow to make a pensioner wearing sandals a little cautious
There is always something to learn but theres no greater teacher than experience . Any training facility will surely keep you a half mile from danger for insurance purposes .
Your money would be far better spent going to visit Clive in Romania I reckon .
I learned a fair bit at pay and play sites, the main lesson being DON'T use your nice decent cared for 4x4 for offroading, buy an old cheapy and either keep it roadworthy to drive there and back or trailer it to the site.
There's much to learn at such places, you hear gems like ''should have bought a Rover'' from the bloke dressed in fatigues who's still fighting WW2, i think you learn just as much watching others doing their thing well or badly, a lot of offroading is plain common sense.
There's much to learn at such places, you hear gems like ''should have bought a Rover'' from the bloke dressed in fatigues who's still fighting WW2, i think you learn just as much watching others doing their thing well or badly, a lot of offroading is plain common sense.
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thanks lads,I've been offroading for over 20 years and I agree experience is everything. I've always liked reading the 'Offroad driving manual' by Vince Cobley and was just fancying spending a day offroad at one of his training days.
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The best and safest operator's and off road drivers I know would never say they know it all and will listen to anyone giving advice....they may then ignore it or realise that person is a bluffer but are then polite enough just to walk away....... but you never stop learning
Go on the course , listen and learn and you will probably meet at least one like minded person.....
I've been to an event in Austria at the Red Bull ring and we completed an afternoons winch training...... guess what ? learnt loads and some new ways of recovering kit ....
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I use to race comp safari and compete in winch trials, but i still go to training when its available- you forget things over time, skills you only use occasionally become rusty etc etc
Don't know about ProTrax but years ago i organised some training to Lantra standards near Taunton for some of the forum members on here- on private land and covered all of the key skills in winching- was run by a James Trembath of 4x4Adventures who has more practical experience, knowledge and formal training than anyone else i've met in the offroad community- www.4x4adventures.co.uk
Could probably organise another if there was interest? FWIW this chap trains Land Rover Experience instructors.....
Don't know about ProTrax but years ago i organised some training to Lantra standards near Taunton for some of the forum members on here- on private land and covered all of the key skills in winching- was run by a James Trembath of 4x4Adventures who has more practical experience, knowledge and formal training than anyone else i've met in the offroad community- www.4x4adventures.co.uk
Could probably organise another if there was interest? FWIW this chap trains Land Rover Experience instructors.....
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Just before the first Lincomb event TonyS, who had been driving off road for years, and I went on a Lantra Off Road course. It was excellent, learnt so much, and Tony, with all his experience, said that he had learnt from it too. There were 3 of us plus the instructor.
Highly recommended
Rodger
Highly recommended
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