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View Poll Results: Have you done advance driver training
Yep lots, either free and paid for and will probably do more 39 40.63%
Only the free FPV one 2 2.08%
Did one once, found it useful 19 19.79%
Did one once, found it to be crap 5 5.21%
Will do one soon as I think it will help me 11 11.46%
Would like to do one but can't afford it 17 17.71%
Waste of time, I can drive better than average already 3 3.13%
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Old 08-12-2010, 09:19 PM   #61
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Rev28k, like everything else, it comes down to practice and/or how often you employ the techniques you learn. I imagine you were taught threshold braking.

Years ago there was a commercial dvd getting around that demonstrated threshold braking could stop a car faster than relying on ABS. If I knew where to look I probably still have it.
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Old 08-12-2010, 10:36 PM   #62
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Would love to know who the two peanuts are that ticked 'Waste of time, I can drive better than average already'......would be too funny to get them out there and see how good they really are.
Im peanut nr 3.
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Old 08-12-2010, 11:42 PM   #63
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Did 1 when I was 17 on my L's theough the SDT at willowbank through the school. I repeated Grade 12 the next year, after I was on my "P's" I did it again. Always intended to do the advanced. I will be doing the advanced one through them next year. I'm planning on doing mountains of them.

Knowledge is power, & while I know alot of things that help me in everyday driving, & emergency situations, I will always be interested in learning more. However, whats the use in all that knowledge if you have no idea how to apply it? So the more I can do the better. You have to instinctively know how to apply it without thinking about it, otherwise it's useless. Because when you need it for real, you dont have time to think about it.

So yes, done a couple. Will be doing more when the time is available.
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Old 12-12-2010, 04:22 PM   #64
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re bad driving skills
I didn't want to hijack this thread so I started
http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=11316807

Serious help would be really appreciated
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Old 12-12-2010, 06:19 PM   #65
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Rev28k, like everything else, it comes down to practice and/or how often you employ the techniques you learn. I imagine you were taught threshold braking.

Years ago there was a commercial dvd getting around that demonstrated threshold braking could stop a car faster than relying on ABS. If I knew where to look I probably still have it.
Yup. I've done courses with threshold braking in my old cars and it helped when I was sprinting them too.

Now I'm used to abs everyday and mainly give a pretty hard stab at the pedal. It's weird how things carry over, still to this day I'm iffy about locking brakes and when I drive an old car I am so concious that it doesn't have abs.
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