Unimproved/Off-Road Course

This (1) one day course is designed to improve the off-road driving skills at any experience level.

Course Cost: $775.00 (+6% WV Sales Tax)

Students will learn:

• Different terrain surfaces: gravel, top soil, grass, hard packed clay and shale rock
• How to read and change driving techniques based on vehicle language
• Approach and departure angles
• Suspension variables and the importance of planning prior to negotiating an obstacle
• To identify components both underneath and in the engine compartment of a vehicle and what needs to be protected
• Understanding of driver/vehicle relationship
• Vehicle language, weight and traction transfer, body position, hand management and pedal control
• The challenges of high and low frequency bumps and the problems each can create
• The challenges of smoothly negotiating a variety of obstacles: rocks, stumps, ditches, dry creek beds, logs, ruts, hills, mud and top soil
• How to build a road with available materials in order to overcome an obstacle
• Necessity and techniques of using a ground guide
• How to employ all the necessary pieces of equipment to recover a downed or stuck vehicle in a single or multi-vehicle situation