Goodness that all took some catching up on
nice rounded discussion for once
If I may add what got me involved...
I took and passed the test aged 17 (in 1992) as many do, aged just over 18 my mother (step forward
puffin for those who don't know...) decreed that if I were to continue driving their cars I should train for and take the IAM test. Seeing as I loved driving so much and had no car of my own, I obliged. If I'm truthful I adopted two forms of driving - one that which satisified the IAM group and got me through the test and one that ahem was a little more carefree... (look away mother
). None the less I managed to avoid any further accidents (first one was before I passed the L test
) until much later in my driving career.
Advance further in time and I started to realise that while I at the time felt the IAM was a fairly fruitless exercise, it was in fact a rather slow burn skill, the underpinning of which was ever present in my drive and while I thought I had the two 'modes' it was in fact simply the one...
Later as an observer with my current group I recognized myself in an associate I had, he had been sent by his parents and couldn't see the point in doing the IAM training but his parents had said the same to him as mine had to me, he then proceeded to show me how good he was... some words later, and alas we have never seen him again...
The point I think I am trying to make is that it one hundred percent has to be that the associate has to be interested in improving their driving and have the will to want to do it. Furthermore youngsters nowadays want everything NOW and can't be bothered to wait for it or save up for it, how do you get across to such people that this stuff can take years to learn... and you never stop doing so?
As membership secretary of my current group, we have the questions... unfortunately we have few answers