Coaching

Accredited Motorcycling Australia Coaching

Our Coaching program was designed by Bernie Hatton. With 40+ years of experience, Bernie has developed over the years a proven methodology to learn to ride and race a motorcycle.

Bernie is a passionate motorcycle rider and coach. He is a recognized leader in the motorcycle training industry. Inducted into the National Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2005 for road safety and sporting initiatives.

Bernie’s coaching strategies have not only trained over 60,000 road riders, but he has also claimed success with World Champion riders like Anthony West, Brock Parkes, Chris Vermeulen, Jamie Stauffer, Josh Brookes, Judd Greedy, Josh Waters, and many more who have benefited from his expertise and passion.

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Learn more about bike & rider requirement here

The Program

The following topics are covered in the program:

Six Levels of training (minimum 8 hours per level)
Grip school
Coach and Set up
One to one
Suspension / maintenance
Instructor/coach training program
Mentorship

The program is broken into sessions that are generally delivered in 8 hour blocks , the sessions have lesson plans that are broken down to the content, outcomes, how the lesson is assessed and what tools are required for training assessment.

The program has been developed to be used in all genres of motorcycles, motorcycling sports addressing the motorcycle physics, rider inputs, human behaviour, varying range of grip and environments.

The program delivers to the two vital balances an a riders development:

The balance of organic and structured training ensures there is the understanding of technology, technique, systems learnt in structure which is balanced with;
The essential time required for practice, muscle memory, confidence in correct systems of control that is learnt in the organic phase of practice.

Negatives

Structured - can make a rider think to much
Practice - rider can learn to go fast but not understand how why

Positives

Structured - rider has a full understanding of motorcycle physics, rider inputs, systems
Practice - gains belief, confidence, achievement, mentally important, the reasoning of why we ride a motorcycle

The measurement

Structure - vital staged learning program, using Data, professional Trainer/coach
Practice - lap times, personal goal achievements

The basic underlying rule

Every rider will have good and bad days, every rider crashes through this we can only grow with reflection, every rider requires the complete tool box

Classroom

Training

White Board, Video

& Photo analysis

Track

Drills

Practice what you learnt

with small targeted exercises

Limited

Numbers

More personalised coaching for mixed or dedicated level groups

Road Racing starts here

Supermoto preferred but open to road bikes & minimoto

What's in the Lessons

The 6 levels are a minimum of 8 hours each. Refresher training and Coach & Set up days can be inserted in between the 6 levels for practice and a refresher.

Six progressive learning levels for learner, intermediate, advanced and elite riders

Grip school

Coach and set up days

Motorcycle maintenance

Suspension and chassis tuning

Nutrition | Rest | Recovery | Ethics

The Six Levels

If you think training for your licence test was the only motorcycle instruction you will ever need, then think again. Fast, smart, and safe riders are trained, not born.

Advanced Level 1 on-track training will teach you:

Grip control and system of control for dry and wet conditions
Braking and cornering
Rider posture and Body English
Rear brake skills
Throttle and gearing exercises, including the use of gearbox and clutch

Building on the techniques demonstrated and practiced in Level 1, we will go into more detail to have you understanding and controlling your bike like never before. Riders must have completed Level 1 before proceeding.

Advanced Level 2 on-track training will teach you:

Grip front tyre - overlap braking and rear brake
Steering geometry - overlap front brake
Change of direction - posture
Turning efficiently - steering geometry

We are now getting to the “meat” of building you into a more intelligent rider. We build on the practical and theory elements of the previous levels and delve deeper into correct line, grip, and braking.

Advanced Level 3 on-track training will teach you:

Change cornering lines using Bernie's’ unique systems
Dealing with different kinds of corners and cambers
Flat turn lines
Decreasing radius lines, Increasing radius lines
Advanced grip knowledge
Deeper braking points
Overlapping controls
Engine lock-ups, rear wheel chatter
Bernie's system of control elite

It’s here we say goodbye to the fast road riders and concentrate on the track day riders and racers. We aim to take you directly to the front of your group or race, so the speeds are now significantly increased and the lines become narrower to really focus the mind.

Advanced Level 4 on-track training will teach you:

An increased track speed over Level 3
Inch-perfect lines around the entire track
Hard acceleration including standing the bike up
Correct passing lines
Race starts

Levels 1 to 4 have created great momentum, you can feel the difference in your riding. Let’s get a bit of polish onto your skills, let’s do it for real; performing passing manoeuvres and vital track craft to keep you clear from the dramas.

Advanced Level 5 on-track training will teach you:

Sports body English
Lightning-fast changes of direction
Time and fatigue-saving body actions
Real-time live passing
Learn to follow and not to follow
Slipstream efficiency

Welcome to Level 6.

Congratulations! You have reached Level 6 where champions are born. Here you will tackle some awesome sport specifics like track sectors, fast laps, defensive laps, and craft like when to hang and when not to.

Advanced Level 6 on-track training will teach you:

Break track down
Advanced gear points up and down, efficiency
Sector timing
Fast lap defensive laps
When to sit back

Grip School

Earn vital motorcycle handling skills at our Grip School. An essential part of every rider’s growth is the understanding and feeling of grip. This school will help you understand just how far you can lean or how hard you can brake on a motorcycle. Learn grip and recovery from slides, extra balance, and machine skills.

Our Grip Schools are held on purpose-built training surfaces. The unique surface offers a safe, low-speed (20 to 30 km/hr) technical training area to practice the art of grip without trying to learn vital grip skills at speed on bitumen roads.

Whether you are a seasoned grand prix rider or just average Joe, Bernie Hatton’s Grip School will help with what most describe as a black art in his easy-to-understand methods and skills that our best racers and riders regard as vital motorcycle handling skills. By the end of the course, you will have the skills and knowledge to become a safe motorcycle rider!

Coach and Set Up

About Bernie Hatton

Bernie started the development of this program commercially in 1984 prior to Top Rider, using the skills of my motorcycling career and my family expertise. He constantly reviewed every training program , secession and lesson plan through feedback from students, industry, and stakeholders. He worked with the Queensland transport department for 35 years, Queensland police, the federal police, The Australian Army, local councils, Motorcycling Australia, Motorcycling clubs individuals, learner to elite riders, and riders that became state, national, international and world champion motorcyclists.

Bernie has trained over 600,000 people through his training companies which gave him scope to adjust, modify, and improve his training systems. He published these training methods in the Rapid Motorcycle Magazine and in the local Gold coast Sun Newspaper.

The program has always resulted in safer motorcycle use, professional motorcycle riders / racers, and a better motorcycle community.

Bernie is a fully qualified and licenced motorcycle instructor, motorcycle coach, the holder of a full cert 4 in the training and assessment, and has been ever since that qualification became available. Prior to that certificate becoming available I held my cert 3 , cert 2 and also held the BZF401.

Bernie has undergone continual professional development in his industry and has belief that his qualifications, industry time, and, success of my programs along with the success of my students attracts riders to my programs.