StressedDave wrote:For me the skills don't change - you might not do as much bend assessment, but you've still got to employ whatever system of planning you use. It is all the same - those that only dust off certain skills in the package for particular days are those that I worry about.
It's clear that I sometimes have trouble communicating clearly, so sorry for encouraging you to find a false dichotomy when I meant none. Every time I go out to drive I'm practicing. Each gear change is slagged off if not as good as I want it to be, and so on. In 'normal' driving I don't get to overtake all that much, but I look for opportunities and take them more often than many drivers. I'm hardly ever working on anything in particular, but I've met very many drivers who have been able to identify some aspect or other of their driving that they're "working on", which I take to mean these are areas they're actively pracising, maybe as part of normal driving but often they'll be doing what others think of as recreational driving in order to practise.
Anyway, this forum, and it's predecessor, really aren't aimed at people who have had a significant amount of professional coaching, although certainly encouraging driving enthusiasts in direction. Instead I was imagining people who do very little driving. A number I've met on ADUK driving days have said how they almost never drive on country roads, motorways excepted. For them, attending a perhaps once a year driving day
is a chance where they can really get to practice those aspects of their driving that are rarely addressed.
there is only the road, nothing but the road ...