vonhosen wrote:I don't think JW has it in for Pull/push per se. It's that he doesn't agree that it should be the de facto standard & that forcing people to do it is damaging to the learning process. I get the impression he is for natural steering & if people struggle with steering in any particular aspect of their driving, then let them choose a way to tweek their steering technique in order to overcome their difficulties in that particular area.
My experience of Sir John, based on sitting in a car with him, differs. For all that he professes to want people to steer naturally, actually what he means by that is that he wants them to steer his way. He is just as dogmatic in favouring rotational steering as Chris Gilbert and John Lyon are in favouring P/P. (By the way, apart from the topic of steering JW was very helpful).
I am fully with Mr C-W. I choose a non-dogmatic path, which recognises that a good result can be achieved in a number of different ways, and I personally use different techniques in different situations.
I do have a major reservation about teaching P/P to learners, as most ADI's seem to. I think they are teaching a system which nearly all their pupils abandon shortly after passing. The consequence is that many drivers steer in fashions which nobody would choose to teach. Does this cause accidents? I don't know, but I think maybe it does contribute to loss of control accidents. I wonder whether pupils taught fixed-grip/rotational would be any more likely to put into practice what they had been taught, and whether that would result in a net improvement in the quality of steering and thus the accident rate??
However, I share waremark's views and would have expressed the same in response to your points.
