YOU GUYS and GALS ARE AWESOME !!
Kim, Jackie, Ron, e-mail me back with your shirt size and contact phone number (Tire Rack will provide all instructors with Polo style shirts). email me back at
Movingchicane@gmail.com Dan, I completely understand about the time, or lack thereof. If anything changes, let me know soon, I'll assume your an XL.
Just a couple more notes on this; the exercises are run similar to the PDS school. The differences are that in a PDS school you have people that signed up voluntarily. Here you have teens that do not want to get up early on a Sunday morning and were signed up by their parents... because they care.... Some of these teens have moving violations or accidents, some do not. All the teens are encouraged to bring their daily drivers so I doubt there will be any 997 Turbos with PCCB brakes or M5s (although you never know). Instead we'll probably see Honda Accords and Toyota Tundra trucks. These teens do not know what an apex is or heard the term "counter steer" and quite frankly, don't care. They would rather be in bed on a Sunday. (Have I scared anyone away yet?)
What I did see last year from the 1st annual Teen Street Survival is a bunch of teen drivers that went from not caring about the consequences of piloting a 4000 pound missile to teens that knew the consequences of that vehicle hitting a moveable or immovable object and how to control it. Last year a corporate sponsor donated a 18 wheel tractor trailer for the day and had each teen get in the drivers seat. Cars were then positioned all around the rig to give them a taste of what the driver of such a truck sees (or doesn't) from their position. It gave a new perspective to these teens about what the driver of a 80,000 pound vehicle goes through and the consequences of physics when trying to stop that truck after you cut them off.
As instructors, we often use the phrase, "The light switch went on". In these teens, it really does happen like that, but it's more pronounced. By the end of the day, they are truly appreciative of what you've taught them and THEIR PARENTS even more so. Their parents are there ALL DAY watching little Johnny or Jane go with their instructors on a wet skid pad or do the emergence lane change exercise and are amazed at what they've learned in such a short amount of time!
At the end of the day, the instructor will ask the parents to ride in the passenger seat with their teen so their son or daughter can personally show them what they've learned. It's an absolutely fulfilling day, without question!
