The dates marked in blue are race events that Shane will be attending.
Please contact us if you are wanting to attend any of the future schools that may have SOLD OUT. We can place you on our waiting list, and usually can confirm your registration in the school as it gets closer due to a cancellation.
We are accepting registrations for the following confirmed schools:
Jan 9/10 (Sat/Sun) Macclenny, FL (Only 7 spots were remaining) - It was a bit chilly, but we had an awesome time! Great group of guys!
Jan 22/23 (Fri/ Sat) Nesmith, SC at Battery Park Offroad park - Stellar conditions and a perfect tight tree section! Awesome group or riders!
Jan 24 - Racing at SETRA Hare Scramble - Sumter, SC (no school) - Placed 5th Overall
Jan 27 (Wed) one day school at Nat. Enduro Rd. 1 start area (SERMA Club) Sumter, SC - Another great day on the trails with an excellent group of students
Jan 31 - Racing at National Enduro Rd. 1 - Sumter, SC (no school) - Won Vet A
Feb 14 - Racing at National Hare & Hound Rd. 2 - Spangler, CA (no school) - Placed 11th overall riding a 150XC!
Feb 19/20 (Fri/Sat) Hull, GA - 30 min from Nat Enduro Rd. 2 (Sold Out!) - Absolutely epic conditions this weekend! Awesome group of students to work with!
Feb 21 - Racing at National Enduro Rd. 2 - Greensboro, GA (no school) - Won Vet A again, what a sandbagger!!!
Feb 27/28 (Sat/Sun) Ft. Basinger (near Okeechobee), FL (Only 7 spots were remaining) Another perfect weekend in "paradise". An excellent weekend of learning and everyone made great progress in the corner ruts, and conquered the nasty hillclimbs. Yes, there are some hills in Florida!!!
Mar 6/7 (Sat/Sun) Denver, NC - 30 min NW of Charlotte - We had EPIC conditions, and as always a great group of students that put in 100% effort. They all made excellent progress with their skills improvement. Stoked for those guys!!!
Mar 12/13 (Fri/Sat) Thackerville, OK ( near DFW, TX area) - site of TCCRA Rd. 1 (Only 5 spots were remaining) Everyone made huge improvements and those riders doing the race tomorrow will no doubt turn faster lap times. What a great two days!
Mar 14 - Racing at Rd. 1 TCCRA (no school) - Placed 2nd Overall
Mar 19/20 (Fri/Sat) Greenbank, NJ - 5 minutes from ECEA Sandy Lane Enduro start area (Sold out!) Absolutely perfect conditions and a great location! The sandy terrain allowed for some excellent corner rut and line selection exercises.
Mar 21 - Racing at GNCC Rd. 3 - Morganton, NC (no school) - Won the morning race Overall. Good times!!!
Mar 26/27 (Fri/Sat) - Pioneer (Sopiago Springs), CA, 1 hr east of Sacramento (Only 4 spots were remaining) Another magnificent location in the Sierra mountains. We got a little dusting of snow the night before the school started which made things a little mushy first off but it then turned to tacky loam real quick. All of the students had a blast and improved immensely. So stoked!!!
Apr 10/11 (Sat/Sun) Milliken, CO (Two Rivers Racing) (Sold Out!) Great conditions once again in Colorado. We had "Drifting" and "Ruts" exercises that student were really able to safely push their limits with and fast track their learning curve. Excellent fun was had by all.
Apr 16/17 (Fri/Sat) Tuscumbia (Seven Springs Lodge), AL (Sold Out!) Good times with a great group of students. Massive improvement by everyone in attendance!!!
Apr 18 - Racing at National Enduro Rd. 5 - West Point, TN (no school) - This race was one of the top 10 races that I have ever competed in! Great soil conditions, 70 miles of perfect 2nd, 3rd, & 4th gear single track, and excellent weather - that was exactly what I was looking forward to. It was soooooo AWESOME!!! Placed 2nd in Vet A.
Apr 22/23 (Thur/Fri) Dubuque, IA (Sold Out!) What a great location for a school. Every student did a great job of applying their increased skill level to the trails, especially when it started raining towards the end of the second day.
Apr 24/25 (Sat/Sun) Dubuque, IA (Sold Out!) A very slippery two days due to the overnight rains, but it made great conditions for our Drifting, Flat corners, and Ruts exercises - they were epic! Full lock slides are so much fun!!!
Apr 30/May 1 (Fri/Sat) Coal Center, PA - 40 min south of Pittsburgh (Sold Out!) Two more great days of learning at an excellent location. Keep up the practice guys!
May 8/9 (Sat/Sun) Albany, OR (Sold Out!) Perfect conditions and excellent trails allowed students to really maximize their skills improvement. Finished up just before the heavy rains came - Yeah!
May 14/15 (Fri/Sat) Crab Orchard (Little Egypt), IL (only 8 spots were remaining) We dodged the rains again. Each student made huge improvements in all aspects of their riding skills. Really stoked for them!
May 16 - Racing at National Enduro Rd. 6 - Park Hills, MO (no school) - Another fun day roosting 60 miles of epic trail. Conditions were a little on the moist side, and somewhat rutted up, but still great fun. The sand sections were unreal!!!
May 22/23 (Sat/Sun) Wrentham, MA (Sold Out!) What a beautiful weekend in the North East. Epic location, great students, and heaps of quality learning and skills improvement. What more could you ask for!?!
June 4/5 (Fri/Sat) White City, IL (Sold Out!) All students really excelled in the great conditions present at this excellent location. We covered heaps and improved lots - had a great "grinding" exercise for everyone to work on.
June 6 - Racing at D17 Hare Scramble - White City, IL (no school) - Had to miss this race as I needed to drive north to Fun Mart Cycles to spend 8 hours prepping my new 200XC for my trip further west in the coming weeks. Spewing, as it was perfect conditions at that race. Next time!
June 11/12 (Fri/Sat) Warrensburg, MO - Not getting injured this time!!! (Sold Out!) Okay, I got through this school without getting hurt! We had another great time on the bikes with perfect conditions. Massive rains came near the end of the second day. This only made things better seeing as we then had great sessions doing the grinding and drifting exercises - soooo much fun and perfect practice for roosting in slippery conditions!
June 13 - Racing at Forward Motion Hare Scramble - Warrensburg, MO (no school) - Didn't get to race due to the race being postponed from the heavy rains.
June 25/26 (Fri/Sat)Price Ranch - Bismarck, ND (Sold Out!) Another great school. Epic location with perfect conditions. Everyone had soooo much fun in the slippery conditions and it really allowed everyone to push their limits and improve their riding skills in these conditions.
June 27 - Racing at North Dakota Hare Scramble - Price Ranch (no school) Following all of the rains the track conditions actually turned out to be totally perfect. It was such a fun track. I had a sensational time roosting around and stopping to help anyone who got themselves stuck in the couple of deep mud holes - I still managed to take the victory though!
July 1/2 (Thur/Fri) - Pincher Creek, AB Canada (Sold Out!) A little dusty on the first day, then some overnight rain made it perfect for the second day at this excellent venue. We had great hill exercises that had all of the students really challenging themselves and maximizing their skills improvement.
July 3/4 (Sat/Sun) - Racing Round 1 & 2 of Canadian Enduro Championship - Blairmore, Alberta Canada (no school) It is always great to go roosting on awesome single track in the Rocky Mountains. At this race I got to do it for two straight days - sensational!!! The Canadian racers were really on the gas but I still managed to score 4th and 2nd Overall positions with some steady and somewhat conservative riding.
July 8/9 (Thur/Fri) - Penticton, British Columbia Canada (Sold Out!) Thanks to being at the same location as Round 2 of the Canadian Enduro C'ship we had so many great exercises set up and obstacles to conquer. Every student did great with getting out of their comfort zone and pushing their limits. The skills improvement was amazing - congrats to each student!!!
July 31/Aug 1 (Sat/Sun) Pitkin, CO (only 1 spot was remaining) Another sensational DirtWise school with a great group of students. Everyone made excellent improvement with their riding skills. What a bonza weekend!!!
Aug 3-12 Production of the Adv #2 Instructional DVD (no schools)
Aug 14/15 (Sat/Sun) Wrentham, MA (Sold Out!) The students killed it at this sold out DirtWise school. Everyone made huge improvement with their skills and confidence!!! The magnificent cool weather reinforced that it was the correct choice to conduct the school here this weekend!!!!
Aug 19/20 (Thur/Fri) Big Sky Resort - Big Sky, MT (Sold Out!) What beautiful two days of learning in the high country of Montana. The ski resort car park provided epic conditions to really push the limits with the drifting exercise. Soooo much fun!!!
Aug 28/29 (Sat/Sun) NW Indiana (Michigan City) (Sold Out!) Perfect conditions at this venue made for some great exercises to practice, especially the straight line and corner ruts, plus the grinding and oval exrecise. All of the students put in a huge effort and thus reaped the rewards!
Sep 1-9 Final Production of Adv #2 Instructional DVD (no schools)
Sep 10 (Fri) Seattle, WA - One day school - $200 (only 1 spot remaining)
Sep 11/12 (Sat/Sun) Seattle, WA (Sold Out!)
Sep 25/26 (Sat/Sun) Pontypool, Ontario, Canada (open for registration)
Oct 1 (Fri) Lexington, KY - First day of the KY 2-day school (total cost $360)(open for registration)
Oct 2 (Sat) - Racing at National Enduro Rd. 10 - Upland, IN (no school)
Oct 3 (Sun) Lexington, KY - Second day of the KY 2-day school (total cost $360)(open for registration)
Oct 8/9 (Fri/Sat) Mansfield, MO (only 9 spots remaining)
Oct 10 (Sun) - Racing at last round of MHSC - Mansfield, MO (no school)
Oct 15/16 (Fri/Sat) West Union, WV (only 8 spots remaining)
Oct 17 (Sun) - Racing the Rod Bush Memorial race (Extreme Dirt Series) - West Union, WV (no school)
Oct 23/24 (Sat/Sun) near Carson City, NV (only 5 spots remaining)
Oct 29/30 (Fri/Sat) Durhamtown Off Road Park - Union Point, GA (cost $375)(open for registration)
Nov 6/7 (Sat/Sun) Durhamtown Off Road Park - Union Point, GA (cost $375) (open for registration)
Nov 13/14 (Sat/Sun) Denver, NC (open for registration)
Nov 25 Watts baby #3 is due (by order of the boss, definitely no school or race this weekend!!!)
Dec 11/12 (Sat/Sun) Houston, TX
Dec 18/19 (Sat/Sun) Victorville, So. Cal (open for registration)
Please email dirtwise@shanewatts.com for further information about these schools and to receive an event flyer to the specific school. Other schools may be scheduled at a later date. Private group bookings are welcome. Please contact us if you are interested in us conducting a DirtWise school in your region. A portion of each student's tuition fee is donated to the Blue Ribbon Coalition and the RiderDown Foundation.
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