RUST magazine: RUST#40

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person my whole life or do I want to
change things?’ You know, rather than
fight against the change, embrace the
change.
So now we’re always trying to find
the best solution for family. Again three
years ago it was getting a bit much with
the schools and such, it felt like I was
always away, felt like I was missing out
on too much. That was the main reason
I decided to go to Canada for a whole
(antipodean) winter, so we found a way
to do a whole bunch of schools, keep
our earnings going through the winter
in NZ and be together every day. We
bought a dirty old American truck and
a caravan and spent four months doing
schools travelling around Canada.
Ended up teaching around 450 people!
I really enjoy the teaching. I did a bit
of basic learning on how to do it, to start
with – remember those Motorcycling
NZ coaching programmes, JB? – I did a
bit of that and then studied it basically.
I read a lot of books, tried to work it
all out, I studied teaching people and
also my father-in-law’s a teacher and
my sister in-law’s a teacher, so I talked
to them a lot about it, I take it pretty
seriously.
It’s really cool seeing how people
learn, how they react to new things.
Like we have a basic school, I’ve done
hundreds of them now, and I know
there are always light bulb moments
as we go through the day. I’m thinking
‘yep, here comes the light bulb
moment,’ it’s just really fun to see the
people’s faces, the reaction as they say
‘wow, that’s really easy,’ it feels good
to spread the love of riding bikes a bit
more, to take away someone’s fears a bit
and make riding easier for them.
STILL THE RIDING, ALWAYS
I think I’m quite fortunate that the way
that I ride an enduro bike transfers
quite well onto adventure bikes. Not by
design, but by the way I do it these bikes
seem to like and that’s really fortunate.
Definitely, I still develop my riding.
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