Course Content
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Thank you for your interest in our programs.
My personal site (Private property, central in Eastern Ontario) is specifically designed for teaching skid control and vehicle handling techniques. It is not a race track. Due to the fact that the majority of our clients are new drivers, elderly, or drivers sent by the Ottawa Court system, we designed the pad as to not be intimidating or to reflect a high speed or a high performance environment.
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The pad is a 50,000 square foot fine compound pavement so that the vehicle will slide at a "SAFE" speed. This allows the drivers to learn the techniques and develop confidence in their skills and ability to control a vehicle and to recover from their mistakes.
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We believe that you must learn new skills in a comfortable environment, then learn to apply and adapt them to more challenging situations. Drivers only learn by making and correcting their mistakes.
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We train drivers to judge a vehicle's traction limits on any surface. Next, we teach the drivers how to push any vehicle to its’ limits and not tol et the vehicle go beyond its’ limits. Drivers are taught that they never lose control unless they let go of the steering wheel.
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The bottom line is that we want drivers to realize that all surfaces are dangerous, not only when they are wet or covered with snow and ice.
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The training and techniques will and do work on any surface in any vehicle if the driver can properly judge the surface traction.
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Vehicle Dynamics taught with the proper attitude develops Safer Drivers.
You Will Learn...
Up to date skills and techniques required to handle the most common emergency driving situations, no matter what your age or driving experience.​
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The largest mistakes made by drivers in emergency situations and how to avoid them.
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The difference between “loss of traction” and “loss of control”.
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How fast sliding can turn to skidding and the correct moves to deal with it.
Rachel
"Hi Bob, I just wanted to let you know that I used my skidschool skills today, and they saved me from a head-on collision at over 100 km/hr. I was in the right-hand lane on the Queensway (it has 3 lanes at the part where I was). I was going at about 115 km/hr. There were cars trying to merge onto the highway from an on-ramp to the right, so I moved into the middle lane. There was a van ahead of me in the middle lane that was slowing down dramatically, even though there were no cars in front of it. I was going too fast and the van was too close, so I moved into the left-hand fast lane. As soon as I got there, I saw white lights - there was a car dead stopped facing the wrong way on the Queensway! I have never heard of that happening before. It was really, really close. I tried to brake but there wasn't enough time to stop, and I was going too fast - it was just like the last exercise of the day that we did in your class! I quickly flipped the steering wheel to the right, just like you taught me. Thankfully the van had slowed down enough that I had enough space to get over in front of it. I was so close to a head-on. If I hadn't been in such a similar situation before in your class, I don't know what I would have done. I wanted to say thanks - I think that your class saved my life (literally!)"