Well it's been a while since I updated my progress on this blog so I figured I’d better catch up!

The 10 minute presentation went very well and practicing in front of my wife (thank you sweetie!) definitely helped! I chose “How to Load and Unload a Pistol Magazine”.

Thanks to that initial presentation, I am now far more comfortable being called upon to get up and discuss or teach and exercise which the instructors have us now doing.

Aside from the classroom...

Well the course work has begun! We have started the coursework! I am being trained with 3 other instructor candidates. The course consists of 11 seasons, with 5 of those being practical sessions with the bikes and 'teaching' our fellow instructor candidates as we practice our instruction skills. We are all being taught be 3 senior instructors so it's almost a 1:1 ratio for teacher to student!

I am by far the youngest instructor candidate as the others have been riding almost as long...

So this weekend was 2 full days of riding with the Traffic Course. The majority of the students were recent graduates of the Novice Course I observed, along with other students form other Novice courses.

The Traffic Course is primarily designed to prepare riders for their upcoming ICBC Road Test. It takes riders through all sorts of riding and traffic conditions, including highway riding.

I split the weekend up between two of the instructors so I could get a view of...

Well I did my final weekend of the Novice Skills Course observation. It consisted of Saturday being 4 hours of riding and 4 hours of theory and Sunday was some warm up/practice riding and then performing the MSA test (Motorcycle Skills Assesment).

Saturday was pretty much the same as the previous Saturday and it was nice to see the class progressing and bonding with eachother.

On Sunday during the course setup, the head instructor informed me that since I was the only...

There are 3 main phases to the VISC Instructor training program.

Our Instructor Candidate (IC) training consists of three phases:

Phase I: Course Observation, where you observe an entire course (tarmac, theory, and traffic).

Phase II: Classroom training, 11 3-hour sessions, completed during the evenings and the occasional weekend. This is followed by two full days doing a mock traffic course. This phase prepares you for training adults, and teaches...