Total Control ARC -- Viva la Monster Dave

[Michael]

Now that I've taken the ERC. I'm dying to take the Total Control ARC class for $300.

I just watched their video about the class, and there's Dave (about 1 minute in).

Advanced Riding School Demo

[Dietrich]

I was at that class also, as well as my buddy Pete on his R1.  You can see me going around in circles towards the end I believe. Very fun!  Of course we learned a lot also.  Recommend reading the book first.

EDIT:  Different video than I thought.  There's another one floating around where they took a bunch of behind the scenes footage the day we were there.

[NAKID]

Hey Dave, you earning royalties for that?

[triangleforge]

I'm trying to remember last year -- does the schedule tend to fill out a bit as the year progresses? Looks like they teach in Gilbert toward the end of each month, but the last one on the calendar for 2009 in Arizona is Sept. 26/27. End of September might not be too bad, but I'm a wimp and tend to avoid heading down into the Valley (or as Omar Sharif called it "The Sun's Anvil") in the summer months. 
http://www.totalcontroltraining.net/HTML/Schedule.html

[Monster Dave]

Hey Dave, you earning royalties for that?

LOL, no I wish that I were though!!

It was a great course. Michael, there's a detailed review that I wrote of our expierence in the Riding Techniques section of the forum here at the bottom of the page: http://ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=9631.0

Dietrich here's the vid that I think you're talking about:

Cycle Sports TV-Lee Parks BTS Video

I'm in it from about 4m13 sec to 4min 35sec, Dietrich you're blazing around at about 4m50sec.

[Michael]

I'm in it from about 4m13 sec to 4min 35sec, Dietrich you're blazing around at about 4m50sec.

Anything over 5 minutes and you have to become a registered member of the screen actors guild.

At least, that's what I've heard.

[Monster Dave]

Anything over 5 minutes and you have to become a registered member of the screen actors guild.

At least, that's what I've heard.

Very well, just have Lee send us our royalty checks ASAP.

[pennyrobber]

At 3:50 it seems to turn into a ballroom dancing class.

[Michael]

Look at these great turns.

[Dietrich]

Wish my bike still looked that clean from the underside...    

[Michael]

Wish my bike still looked that clean from the underside...    

My wife saw your bike and said she wants it.

Quote, "I don't just want one like it, I want that one."

[Monster Dave]

Look at these great turns.

Thanks!   [moto]

This is one of my favorite pics! Both Dietrich and I had a blast that day. It's hard to imagine that we weren't exceeding 20mph in those turns. I scraped hard parts on both sides of my Monster that day!!! That pic was maximum lean angle on my Pilot Roads; if you look really close you can see that my left exhaust pipe is about an inch from the ground!

I miss that helmet too...

Oh and Dietrich, your bike does look good and clean in that pic!