What we teach.

The California Superbike School levels are the most effective progression of skill sets ever devised for learning the techniques of cornering. We do them the old fashioned way, one step at a time. Each level takes one day to complete, and must be done in sequence. Everyone starts at Level One and works through the program. Level One is the start of your journey of continuous cornering improvement.

Level One - Stability

Do you know what your job is as a rider? It is probably the most fundamental question that should be asked but it is rarely tackled. If you, the rider, do not know what your job is how the heck can you be expected to get the best from you and your bike?

This is why all of our students start at Level One. It’s not a reflection of your ability (Toseland, Camier, Luthi and several other World class racers all started here), it is a reflection of the first question. This is where over 20,000 riders have started out in the last 14 years in Europe - and where over 150,000 riders have started since the schools began in the USA, thirty years ago.

With our professional coaches and our step-by-step systematic approach to training you are going to get better at cornering and Level One is the start of this journey. Level One is best described as the foundation skills that you need along with the building blocks by which you will improve your cornering confidence - whatever your cornering goals.

It’s a full and long day but that is needed to make sure you get the information and the practice time you need to start on your cornering confidence. We will discuss, explain and improve the following areas:

• Your corner entry speed. Get it right and the corner is great. Get it wrong...

• Your throttle control, it sounds basic but this is where confidence is won or lost.

• Your ability to overcome your survival reaction of turning in too early.

• Your ability to turn your bike quickly. No word of a lie, this could save your life!

• Your interaction with your bike. How much is too much and how much is too little.

• Your use of your eyes. Do you look into the corner at the correct time? How do you know when that is?

Level Two - Vision

After building the foundation skills you needed in level One (What’s your job?) it is time to move on and continue with the retraining of your eyes. When was the last time anyone tried to retrain your eyes? As humans we have an average speed of about 6mph. Our eyes naturally fall to a distance that works at 6mph. That is clearly not good enough when we are craving an arc through a corner at ten times that speed!

We need to up the game when it comes to the eyes and get them to work at the speeds we like and enjoy.

So what are we going to work on in Level Two?

• Location, location, location! If you do not know exactly where you are, how can you plan a route through a corner? How consistent would you be? How accurate?

• Space, the final frontier! We need a lot of space if we are to feel comfortable with our speed. How do we get more of it?

• Control. Now we have the space, we need to have control of it. You can have too much, you can have too little.

• Awareness. Now our eyes have a lot of things going on and we need to make sure we can use it and not lose it. We show you how.

• Let’s go to the next corner - quicker! Getting drive out of a turn is something we all like; let’s see how we can get more of it and how this helps us in wet or adverse conditions.

Level Three - Body Position

Do you remember what your job is as a rider? Those four words should be ingrained in your brain by the time you get to Level Three. Using our body weight we can influence what the bike can do and how stable it can do it. But we have to move correctly. To jump around all over the bike will only cause problems that you will find yourself fighting to overcome. You and your bike should be working together and Level Three shows you how this is done. Be warned - Level Three is hard on the legs but well be worth the ache!

• Upper Body movement. I am sure you have looked at pictures of other riders and seen all sorts of body positions, good and bad. But how do you tell one from the other and why do some positions help the bike on its line?

• I’m stable, you’re stable. Getting a bike turned quickly creates a massive instability. The more stable you are at this point the better!

• I need my knees. You should aim to be secure on the bike at all times and the handlebars are not there for you to swing on. Ever noticed the cut away in your fuel tank? It serves a purpose!

• Strictly come dancing. Once you have mastered the previous drill, it’s time to learn the dance the bike needs for you to move quickly and in time.

• Tora, tora, tora! Let’s see how to attack or approach those corners better. It’s a simple matter of angles. Get them right and it feels excellent, get them wrong and it goes from bad to worse.

Level Four - Get personal

Our Level Four program is designed to highlight and improve your weak areas from the three previous levels.

There are no classrooms to attend in Level Four instead you will go through your program with one of our senior coaches in a group format. He will help you progress, along with your on track coach. You are also expected to help with your own development.

Where possible we will also film you to show you what your riding looks like.

A day at the California Superbike School

Turn up at 7:00am at your chosen School.
Sign on, get your riding kit and your bike checked over.
Be ready in the classroom for your first lecture and safety briefing.
Listen, learn and have an open mind.
Get out on to track for the first of your 5 riding sessions.

There are 63 students on a day split into 3 groups of 21 riders. You will be assigned a fully qualified riding coach for the whole day. He works with you one to one during a session although he has two other students to service too. There are five classroom based technical briefings per level as well as five track sessions and an off-track drill to perform. After each of the track sessions your riding coach will give you a personal debrief of your progress in that session.

Ride home around 6pm and be amazed at the difference!

You need to bring…

• A willingness to learn!

• Your riding kit: one or two piece (zip all the way round) leathers, full face crash helmet, leather gloves and motorcycle boots.

• Your valid driving license or race license

• Your own bike or hire one from a 3rd party (contact us for details).