After the first driving lesson I'm just afraid of the next one. What can I do?
Hello,
I (F, 16) am currently doing my A1 and was really looking forward to my first proper driving lesson, but I didn't have any driving experience other than riding in the back.
Yesterday, the time finally came, and it was pure horror. I was naturally very nervous and also nervous, which my driving instructor noticed. I was supposed to go to a garage where the motorcycle was parked between a few cars and just let the clutch slip and drive off slowly. Unfortunately, that didn't work out because I was shaking so much.
My driver then drove with me to a small road where a few other people were practicing and let me try again, which worked better. Afterwards he wanted me to do a few laps, switching into second gear and taking a bend. That was a bit too much for me because I didn't really know how to do it. He kept shouting at me and saying I wasn't listening to him, even though that wasn't true, I just didn't know how to put it into practice. After a few stupid comments like "I haven't had anyone like you in ages" and "You're at grammar school, you don't act so stupid", I was under so much pressure that I was just shaking.
What I was actually able to do now was: let the clutch slip, start moving, accelerate and drive around the corner a bit but only with my foot on the ground.
I feel so bad after this driving lesson and I already have a stomach ache when I think about the next few lessons… I really want to ride a motorcycle but I don't know what to do.
Please help me with some advice and/or your own experiences
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Just talk about it with the driving instructor himself and just say out as free as you wrote here. That you’re going too fast and you’re very nervous and you’re letting that slip with clutch, start it, etc. just want to practice a little before it goes on. So you’re paying him for your needs.
Give him another chance, and if he’s going crazy with you again, you can still ask if you can get another teacher. You don’t need to change the driving school directly, everything can be settled.
You have several options:
It is completely normal to be excited and also to make mistakes. For example, if the car tilts, lift it up and just keep going. No Master has fallen from heaven. You can do this!
A short update for me and mainly for people who liked it,
I just passed my practical examination (in the first attempt) and could not be happier. It was the best decision to change the driving school at all and I also recommend that everyone who feels absolutely uncomfortable and unintentional in his current.
You can all do this as long as you trust yourself and as far as you can keep quiet.
A nice day to all and ride safe 😁
Report the driving school what happened and ask for another driving instructor or Find a completely new driving school. You can’t do that.
Hello first,
beautiful that you are in the process of making the A1, new 🏍️drivers are always happy.
I also made the A1 with 16, now up to the climb tests (A2/A). It was a great time to go around and be independent at 16 years.
Above all, the A1 is a perfect entry into the motorcycle world.
But well, back to the topic:
My instructor was always louder at the time, and it always helped me when he was louder to me, as I could learn so better.
Sure, you don’t have to yell at yourself, you’re his client, and you pay him for giving you that right.
It’s best if you talk to your driving instructor, if the conversation doesn’t work, I would talk to the owner to change the driving instructor if he was the owner, then the best option would be to change the driving school.
Finally, I would like to give you some motivating points, why you should stay on the A1 :
I hope that I could help you, how does it look up to date, your question has been about 3 weeks ago.
I wish you a lot of fun and success in the driving hours/test(s).
DLzG
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Hello,
thank you for your answer (:
I passed my theory three weeks ago and decided to change the driving school because a conversation didn’t bring anything and I didn’t feel comfortable in the driving school anymore. However, I found a new one where I learn to drive this much more fun. In addition, I am now (after only 4 or 2 double training hours) so far that I only have to do the mandatory hours and then can be tested.
I am looking forward to my driver’s license and are expected to be ready soon (:
Hi.
congratulations!
Nice to read that it now works better when driving hours are fun then it is a successful step 👍.
Keep looking forward, driving licence means freedom. Remember, anticipation is the best joy! 😀
Vlt’s on the way.
DLzG.
“After a few stupid sayings, like “I haven’t had one like you for ever” and “you’re on the gymnasium, you’re not fooling at yourself,” icv said that I was only trembling.”
Change driving school. I can’t do that. There, someone leaves his training-related inferiority complex and his contempt for women to a rider and thus ensures that she is really insecure in the traffic. The Alllast.
It’s completely normal that such things don’t work for the first time. That’s why you go to the driving school. The driving instructor is the problem, not you.
Didn’t that instructor tell you how it works? The fact that at the first attempt not everything works is normal, especially if you have never been sitting on a motorcycle – as a driver.
Do you have a friend or relative who has a motorcycle in the size class? And the patience and time? Then drive with him to the traffic exercise area and try to drive a few rounds there in peace and practice the upshift. This gives you safety for your next driving hours with the driving instructor. And tell this driving instructor what you expect from him, that he goes into your situation as an absolute newcomer. This is part of his job. And if he keeps acting so stupid, ask another instructor. You don’t have to do that. He’s gonna ruin all the fun on the bike.
A change of driving school always means that you have to pay the basic fee again. And then you don’t know what instructor you’ll get.
I wish you a lot of success and don’t let you go. You can do this because you want it.
Change the driving school. You can’t scream.
My instructor was always loud about small things. Has motivated me to learn as quickly as possible and make the Lappen
Driving school change quickly! With such an idiot of driving “teacher” you won’t have any success and just rightly have no fun.
You have the possibility to switch to another driving school and to have the previous hours calculated there. So if you’ve already done the theory, you don’t have to do it again at the next school. The current driving school will then only take into account the theory and the one training hour, which will naturally be saved at the next school.
Believe me, I also had such a driving instructor at the car driver’s license and that cost me significantly more money in the end, because I needed more driving hours than with a good teacher.
Driving school change or the teacher in the driving school itself can often also be exchanged for another
Change driving instructors!
sorry,but you’re clearly part of the evasive youth of today…if the whisper is, presumably so that you can hear something with helmet,you’ll yell at that…you’ll read this so often from the children…apparently almost all the driving instructors are koleriker….You can now change the driving school for a lot of money and hope that it’s better,or you’ll have the bad thing in your dream
These aren’t hard words, but only your opinion, and that’s also okay, I also see my own mistakes and don’t say I did everything right. I also know that I have a helmet, but there is also the microphone he can talk to me about. Besides, I wouldn’t say that I’m evasive, but just that he doesn’t know how to deal with a person that’s very nervous, because that didn’t help me any more but made everything worse. I’m not saying he’s a bad person or something in the direction. There are always different people and with me this language does not help, I pay very expensive driving hours to learn something and not to get intimidated.
Jaja, sneak on the “softly light youth” but can’t write a single sentence right…
na if you mean….but the big & small font is more than no matter what….if otherwise you may have gotten into a mistake, of course you can improve me so you’re okay
Being loud or shouting is subjective, I give you right. Comments such as “I haven’t had any more like you” or “you’re on the gymnasium, you don’t fool yourself,” but definitely have nothing to do with soft youth. There is no such thing and is absolutely unprofessional by the instructor.
I also had such a “teacher” who was good at dipping me together and insulting me, but not in explaining to me how it is. And “soft” I am definitely not.
It has long been proven that you learn under pressure worse than with fun. And that you can make a ride lesson fun and easy, even if the rider or the rider is untalented and perhaps makes more mistakes than the average, you can also see at many good driving schools.
So don’t come here with the “before everything was better and the youth of today are all washcloths” Leier. Just because you grew up under “harder conditions” that doesn’t give you the right to pull down others that are better. That’s not even the case. The youth of today has no less burden than your generation, it just has others. Times change now.