Standard Dave wrote:Commentary is a training aid to get students looking where they should be and so the instructors know what the student has and hasn't seen.
Given some poetic licence, this more or less sums it up
Rennie
AnalogueAndy wrote:Lovely smooth drive and excellent commentary. Am I the only one who found his commentary a bit 'fast' though?
Ok he was going fast and there was a lot to take in but we were taught not to speed up the commentary with the speed of the car..
There's often too much to mention, it's about ordering the hazards and picking out the key one's.
I remember one particular drive when we were going 'quick' and the driver ended up sounding like a commentator on the last stages of a horse race
Standard Dave wrote:Commentary is a training aid to get students looking where they should be and so the instructors know what the student has and hasn't seen.
7db wrote:...ii) To knock 10mph off a drive when the driver is up to speed but the coach had a large lunch and his bearnaise sauce is unable to settle owing to concerns about whether the driver is upto the task of the speed his is demonstrating.
Of course the ultimate objective is to be able to deliver the commentary without knocking the speed off, although possibly only for those who have some handy wipes for the inside of the windscreen.
7db wrote: I hate commentary driving. I find that when I do it the words come out in the wrong order, and I concentrate on the task of talking, not the task of driving. I think the real reason I hate it is that I'm no good at it, so I find it a burden.
When others do it, I find it distracting and unnecessary. With most drives, I feel that I can sense when the driver has seen something and is accounting for it. The slight positioning, the variation in speed etc.
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