Today I spent 8 hours in class and am now the proud holder of this certificate:
Oh, and I also got a patch for my vest
This class was organized by the HOG Chapter that I belong to and opened up to a couple of other local HOF chapter members. We had 32 participants in the class. We were originally supposed to hold it at our sponsoring Dealership, but with so many people attending the venue was changed to a library that has a lot of classrooms.
All participants paid their own class fees and instructor travel fees (he came up from past Boston). We also kicked in money to donate to the library for allowing the use of their large conference room that had tables/chairs for the entire mob (plus extra - we could have had 50 fit easily), a projector screen and computer set up for PowerPoint slides and of course the necessary restrooms. Plus we had lots of room to hold 3 different training scenarios at the same time.
We all had a good time and learned lots. It helped that a couple of people had attended this class before so were able to help with the training scenarios - otherwise it would have taken forever getting thru them with just the lone instructor.
UPDATE: Someone sent me a picture of my attendance. I have no idea who the other people are - they are from different HOG Chapters.
Super on the training, Bogie, but I don't really like the title of the course listed on the certificate. Apropos, but disturbing. Exercises take a lot of thought in setting them up - to be useful. Glad you got that training under your belt. Congratulations!
Posted by: Cop Car | January 21, 2018 at 01:03 AM
Although you may not have cared for it, we all thought the title was funny.
I added a picture at the end.
Posted by: bogie | January 28, 2018 at 05:54 AM
But we all know that motorcyclists have warped senses of humor. (I'm chuckling.)
They picked someone who would be easy to handle. Looking good!
Posted by: Cop Car | January 28, 2018 at 12:12 PM
I should have written that "Your team" picked someone....
Posted by: Cop Car | January 28, 2018 at 12:14 PM
There wasn't any picking of teams. It was pretty much a bunch of people standing around the spot, someone volunteering to be a "victim, and then whomever decided to volunteer being a "bystander" just finding a place. I didn't know any of the people that I worked with on this one. That is actually the 3rd time I participated because they needed another person.
My first turn was with a pretty good sized dude as the "victim". I believe one of the "bystanders" was a guy from my Chapter - but he was the only one I knew.
The second time a gal that is in my Chapter was the "victim" but I didn't know either of the other two "bystanders"
Posted by: bogie | February 03, 2018 at 06:25 PM