2012 Riding School Pricing and Information

Completed 2011 Schools 

Confirmed 2012 Schools  

Tentative 2012 Schools 

WE ARE CONTINUALLY WORKING ON CONFIRMING LOCATIONS FOR OUR 2012 SCHOOL SCHEDULE.

PLEASE EMAIL US IF YOU WISH TO BE NOTIFIED WITH INFO ABOUT A PARTICULAR SCHOOL AS SOON AS IT IS CONFIRMED AS ALL OF OUR DIRTWISE SCHOOLS SELL OUT VERY QUICKLY.

Please contact us if you want 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 can also contact you immediately upon confirming additional schools in your area.

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CONFIRMED 2012 SCHOOL SCHEDULE

• Jan 7/8 (Sat/Sun) Sebastopol, CA - (Sold Out!) What a great way to start out a new year DirtWise schools! Perfect conditions at an awesome location, which gave each student the ability to maximize and fast track the improvement of their riding skills.
  
• Jan 13/14 (Fri/Sat) St. George, UT - (Sold Out!) It was a little chilly in the mornings but otherwise a very enjoyable two days of teaching. The sand dune exercises were so much fun! 
  
• Jan 21/22 (Sat/Sun) Fort Basinger, FL (20 minutes NW of Okeechobee) - (Sold Out) Another great weekend down south helping a heap of awesome students quickly improve their skills.
  
• Jan 23 (Mon) One day "HardCore" Advanced school (cost $200) Fort Basinger, FL*  - (Only 4 spots were remaining) We had a great day railing corner ruts, launching up cliffs, doing some grinding, and pounding through the sand whoops!
• Feb 11/12 (Sat/Sun) Lugoff, SC (20 mins northeast of Columbia) - Only 2 spots remaining
  
• Feb 18/19 (Sat/Sun) Victorville, CA - Only 3 spots remaining
  
• March 3/4 (Sat/Sun) Sebastopol, CA - Sold Out! - Wait list open 
• March 10/11 (Sat/Sun) Denton, TX - Sold Out! - Wait list open
  
• March 16/17 (Fri/Sat) Kalgary, TX (1 hour east of Lubbock) - Sold Out! - Wait list open
  
• March 18/19 (Sun/Mon) Kalgary, TX (1 hour east of Lubbock) - Open for Registration
• March 23/24 (Fri/Sat) Fayetteville, AR - Only 2 spots remaining
  
• March 31/April 1 (Sat/Sun) Romney, WV - Open for Registration
• April 13/14 (Fri/Sat) Milliken, CO - Only 4 spots remaining
  
• June 29/30 (Fri/Sat) Tulalip, WA - Open for Registration
• July 1/2 (Sun/Mon) Tulalip, WA - Open for Registration

*Dates marked in green are our new DirtWise "Hardcore - Building Champions" Advanced level school.  Please visit the "HardCore Training" page on our website to see if this school is applicable to you.

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TENTATIVE 2012 SCHOOL SCHEDULE (not yet confirmed or open for Registration at this moment)

• Apr 21/22 (Sat/Sun) Omaha, NE
• May 4/5 (Fri/Sat) Massachusetts
• May 6/7 (Sun/Mon) Rhode Island
• May 10/11 (Thur/Fri) Medford, OR
• May 12/13 (Sat/Sun) Lebanon, OR
• May 15/16 (Tue/Wed) New Brunswick, Canada
• May 18/19 (Fri/Sat) Quebec, Canada
• May 20/21 (Sun/Mon) Ontario, Canada
• May 25/26 (Fri/Sat) Barryton, MI
• May 27/28 (Sun/Mon) Toledo, OH
• Jun 1/2 (Fri/Sat) Wisconsin
• Jun 3/4 (Sun/Mon) Moline, IL
• Jun 9/10 (Sat/Sun) Crawfordsville, IN
• Jun 16/17 (Sat/Sun) Price, UT
• Jun 22/23 (Fri/Sat) Boise, ID or Yost, UT
• Jun 24/25 (Sun/Mon) Whitehall, MT
• Jun 27/28 (Wed/Thu) Winnipeg, Canada
• July 20/21 (Fri/Sat) Edmonton, AB, Canada
• July 22/23 (Sun/Mon) Calgary, AB, Canada
• July 25/26 (Wed/Thu) Prince George, BC, Canada
• July 28/29 (Sat/Sun) Vancouver, BC, Canada
• July 31/Aug 1 (Tue/Wed) Moscow, ID
• Aug 25/26 (Sat/Sun) Wrentham, MA
• Sep 8/9 (Sat/Sun) Rochester, MN
• Sep 22/23 (Sat/Sun) St. Louis, MO
• Oct 6/7 (Sat/Sun) Scranton, PA
• Oct 13/14 (Sat/Sun) Nashville, TN
• Oct 20/21 (Sat/Sun) Denver, NC
• Oct 27/28 (Sat/Sun) Portland, OR
• Nov 3/4 (Sat/Sun) Meridian, MS
• Nov 8/9 (Thu/Fri) Queensland, Australia
• Nov 10/11 (Sat/Sun) Hampton, NSW, Australia
• Nov 13/14 (Tue/Wed) Kirup, WA, Australia
• Nov 16/17 (Fri/Sat) S.A., Australia
• Nov 18/19 (Sun/Mon) Victoria, Australia
• Nov 21/22 (Wed/Thu) Tasmania, Australia
• Dec 1/2 (Sat/Sun) Victorville, CA
• Dec 8/9 (Sat/Sun) Northern California

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Completed 2011 Schools 

• Jan 15/16 (Sat/Sun) Otway Ranges, Vic. Australia (Cost $380) - (Sold Out!) Despite the recent flooding things turned out great for this school. Beautiful weather and location made for an excellent start to a new year of schools. Thanks to Otway Offroad Tours for helping arrange everything!
  
• Jan 20/21 (Thur/Fri) "HardCore" Advanced school, Cost $450 - Three Bridges, Vic. Australia - (Sold Out!) Our first ever HardCore school was a huge success. Each student was able to lower their lap times and they learnt how to become more effective with the application of their riding skills and line selection!!!
  
• Jan 22/23 (Sat/Sun) Three Bridges, Vic. Australia (Cost $360) - (Sold Out!) All of the students really excelled with their skills improvement during these two days. I can't wait to see the long term improvement following their continued practice of these skills exercises in the future - it's going to be awesome!!! Thanks to Hands-On MC for helping arrange everything!
  
• Feb 5/6 (Sat/Sun) Livermore, CA - (Sold Out!) What a beautiful weekend in northern California at a great location! The sensational trails allowed all of the students to really push their limits and fast track their skills improvement - we saw some huge improvement over the two days!
  
• Feb 12/13 (Sat/Sun) Fort Basinger, FL (near Okeechobee) - (Sold Out!) Another great day at the track teaching some awesome students. We saw some spectacular action and excellent use of their skills from each student!
  
• Feb 19/20 (Sat/Sun) Sicily Island, LA - (Sold Out!) Good times in the deep south! This property provided many great locations for the skills exercises and examples of superior line selection. Stoked that everyone (even the four girls!) were able to conquer the super steep, massive hillclimb - that was so awesome!!!!
  
• Feb 25/26 (Fri/Sat) Milledgeville, GA (1hr SE of Atlanta) - (Only 3 spots were remaining) What a fun time at a great location! All of the students really excelled at improving their riding skills throughout the two days!
  
• Feb 27 (Sun) Racing at Rd. 1 National Enduro Series - Salley, SC - Awesome weather, awesome trails - well worth the investment! I managed to sandbag my way to 1st in Vet A and to 13th Overall. Not bad for being totally knackered half way through the day! 
• Mar 5/6 (Sat/Sun) Meridian, Mississippi - (Sold Out!) We got some rain, we got some sunshine, but either way we got some great skills learning and improvement achieved during these two day!
  
• Mar 10/11 (Thur/Fri) "HardCore" Advanced  school, Cost $450 - Rivers Edge, VA - (Sold Out!) An excellent time was had at this HardCore school slip-sliding around in the mud and shooting the hillclimbs - it was a blast getting hard on the gas!!!
• Mar 12/13 (Sat/Sun) Rivers Edge, VA - (Only 3 spots were remaining) Perfect weather, excellent location, and a great group of students - another sensational day out on the trails at this DirtWise school!
  
• Mar 18/19 (Fri/Sat) Milliken, CO - (Sold Out!) Great conditions and a group of students who really excelled in building their confidence and on-bike skills!
• Mar 20/21 (Sun/Mon) Lincoln, CA (30 miles NE of Sacramento) - (Sold Out!) So much fun playing in the mud - it provided for some great conditions for students to get out of their "comfort zone" and really push their limits and fast track their skills improvement.
• Mar 25/26 (Fri/Sat) Denton, TX - (Sold Out!) What a magnificent time teaching these students during these two days. They all achieved immense improvement in their bike skills - so stoked about that!
• Apr 2/3 (Sat/Sun) Newport, MD (Wicomico M/sport park) - (Only 3 spots were remaining) Our first DirtWise school in Maryland was sick! We had sensational conditions for the skills exercises, especially the "square" and the "oval" exercises - pulling huge full lock drifts are just the best!!!!
• Apr 9/10 (Sat/Sun) Nashville, TN - (Sold Out!) An excellent two days working this awesome group of riders to improve their bike skills. It was heaps of fun to see them all achieve a higher skill level. Well done guys!
• Apr 22/23 (Fri/Sat) Three Bridges, Vic. Australia - (Sold Out!) A sensational time with a great group of riders. Conditions were absolutely perfect for all of the cornering exercises which allowed each student's skills improvement to be maximized - they all smashed it!!!
• Apr 30/May 1 (Sat/Sun) Amarillo, TX - (Sold Out!) It was such a grouse time working with all of these students. They all really killed it with the grinding exercise and then applied it to the awesome "side angle" trail situation - sensational action!
• May 5/6 (Thur/Fri) "HardCore" Advanced school, Cost $450 - Lebanon, OR (Rock Hill) - (Sold Out!) An excellent location that provided so many technical and pretty intimidating trail situations. Well done guys for doing so well in conquering these!!!
• May 7/8 (Sat/Sun) Lebanon, OR (Rock Hill) - (Sold Out!) Intermittent rain over the weekend provided some challenging conditions and slip-sliding action. All of the students charged through the slop admirably which resulted in huge improvements with their drifting and grinding skills.
• May 12/13 (Thur/Fri) "HardCore" Advanced school, Cost $450 - Springfield, MA - (Only 1 spot was remaining) A great two days out roosting in the trees. We saw some spectacular action and excellent improvement from all of the students.
• May 14/15 (Sat/Sun) Springfield, MA - (Sold Out!) Great times at this DirtWise school, even though the second day was a little slippery - each student really applied themselves to maximize their skills improvement.
• May 19/20 (Thur/Fri) "Hardore" Advanced school, Cost $450 - Warrensburg, MO - (Sold out!) We had heaps of fun on the grass track and roosting up the hills while the rain came down, which provided some pretty difficult conditions - just what we were looking for!
• May 21/22 (Sat/Sun) Warrensburg, MO - Postponed until Sep 17/18 due to flooding at the venue
• May 26/27 (Thur/Fri) "HardCore" Advanced school, Cost $450 - Near Dixon, IL - (Sold Out!) Two more days out on the trails. It was such a blast ripping around the corner track in the deep sand, grinding the hills, and conquering the nasty ravine section!
  
• May 28/29 (Sat/Sun) Prophetstown, IL - (Only 1 spot was remaining) The softer soil at this location provided for some great corner ruts and straight line ruts for all the students to significantly improve their skills with.
• June 2/3 (Thurs/Fri) "HardCore" Advanced school, Cost $450 - Ford City, PA (near Kittanning) - (Only 1 spot was remaining) All of the students were ripping it during the two days - the last ravine was a real doozie and it took quite a bit of work to get out of there!
  
• Jun 4/5 (Sat/Sun) Ford City, PA (near Kittanning) - (Sold Out!) A sensational two days with this group of students watching them steadily improve throughout the weekend. 
• Jun 11/12 (Sat/Sun) Crawfordsville, IN @ the site of the Ironman GNCC- (Sold Out!) What a sensational weekend with these students. Magnificent location, trails, weather, and soil conditions - it doesn't get much better than that. It was EPIC!!!
• Jun 18/19 (Sat/Sun) Yost, UT - (Only 3 spots were remaining) What a sensational weekend with these students. Magnificent location, trails, weather, and soil conditions - it doesn't get much better than that. It was EPIC, just like the previous weekend's school in Indiana!!!
  
• Jun 24/25 (Fri/Sat) Genoa, NY (approx. 30 miles north of Ithaca) - (Sold Out!) Another perfect two days out on the trails with a great group of students - we ripped some great sliding exercises on Day 2!
  
• June 30/July 1 (Thur/Fri) Tulalip, WA - (Sold Out!) The students at this school really made some excellent progress with improving their skills - Well done!
  
• Jul 2/3 (Sat/Sun) Tulalip, WA - (Sold Out!) Great conditions and an excellent group of riders who tore it up during all of the skills exercises that we conducted - Good times!
• Jul 7/8 (Thur/Fri) "HardCore" Advanced school, Cost $450 - Milliken/Boulder, CO - (Sold Out!) We really put these students through the wringer and elevated them out of their comfort zone so as to fast track their skills improvement
  
• Jul 9/10 (Sat/Sun) Pitkin, CO - (Sold Out!) We had the most epic drifting exercise at this location and all of the students made great improvements with this skill. It doesn't get any better than that.
• Jul 30/31 (Sat/Sun) Whitehall, MT - (Sold Out!) We had some pretty dry and dusty conditions but other than that it was a sensational time with heaps of great trail situations to work with that helped improve each student's bike skills. Great work guys and girls!
  
• Aug 6/7 (Sat/Sun) Pitkin, CO - (Sold Out!) A magnificent two days - this great group of students all made heaps of progress with improving their bike skills. 
  
• Aug 11/12 (Thur/Fri) Sumner, ME -  (Sold Out!) Such a sensational location where everyone really pushed themselves to maximize their learning, especially with the grinding and corner ruts!
• Aug 13/14 (Sat/Sun) Wrentham, MA - (Sold Out!) Great weather made this school so enjoyable. We had a lot of fun skills exercises that the students excelled at, which included the oval and brake slide exercises.
  
• Aug 19/20 (Fri/Sat) Barryton, MI - (Sold Out!) An afternoon rain shower on Day 2 provided for an epic session of drifting practice. It was so bloody unreal - can't wait for those kinds of conditions at future schools to do it all again!
  
• Aug 27/28 (Sat/Sun) Rochester, MN - (Sold Out!) There were way too many great skills exercises (such as "backing it in!") and trail specific situations available at this location to fit into the two days - we could have done a 5 day school there!
• Sep 10/11 (Sat/Sun) Lebanon, OR (Rock Hill) - (Sold Out!) Another great weekend of skills improvement, this time finished off with a mad hill climb session!
• Sep 17/18 (Sat/Sun) Warrensburg, MO - (Sold Out!) The usual rains that we get at this school made conditions totally epic for all of the skills exercises we worked on especially the "Drifting" and "Grinding" sliding exercises!
• Sep 24/25 (Sat/Sun) Tulalip, WA - (Sold Out!) Another great weekend in the Pacific Northwest - all of the students were totally "ripping it" during both days!
  
• Oct 1/2 (Sat/Sun) Nashville, TN - (Only 5 spots were remaining) Great weather and perfect trail conditions were in place as we worked through some very beneficial skills improvement exercises.
  
• Oct 8/9 (Sat/Sun) Carson City, NV - (Sold Out!) Had an excellent time out in the "wild west" conducting another school with some great students!
  
• Oct 22/23 (Sat/Sun) Denver, NC - (Sold Out!) A sensational time with an excellent group of students. We had way too many awesome skills exercises and trail situations to work with but not enough time to do them all.
• Nov 12/13 (Sat/Sun) Hampton, NSW Australia (near Oberon, 2 hours west of Sydney) - (Sold Out!) Our first school near Sydney, at an awesome venue, went off really well - can't wait until next time! 
• Nov 15/16 (Tues/Wed) Kirup, WA Australia (approx 1 hour south of Bunbury) - (Sold Out!) Visiting the West Coast Trailbike Safaris Riding Park was a real treat and gave us some excellent trail situations to work with, especially the "DirtWise Ravine"!!!
• Nov 18/19 (Fri/Sat) Three Bridges, Vic Australia (near Yarra Junction, 1.5 hours east of Melbourne) - (Sold Out!) What a sensational weekend of skills training - the rains on Day 2 made things absolutely perfect for both schools!
• Nov 20/21 (Sun/Mon) Three Brides, Vic Australia (near Yarra Junction, 1.5 hours east of Melbourne) - (Sold Out!) This school was just as much fun and effective as the one on the previous two days.
• Dec 3/4 (Sat/Sun) Victorville, CA - (Sold Out!) Pretty much a perfect weekend of roosting around in the desert - every student really pushed themselves to the limit to maximize their learning and skills improvement!
  
• Dec 10/11 (Sat/Sun) Chipley, FL (approx 1 hour west of Tallahassee) - (Sold Out!) Another great school at an excellent Ride park that has some very fun trails. This was a sensational way to end a really productive year of helping improve the riding skills for heaps of riders!!!

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To register for these schools, please download and fill out the registration form, found to the right and below.  This form can either be faxed, mailed, or emailed to us. If you are choosing to pay your deposit by credit card, please visit our store and select the appropriate deposit amount for payment. Please only submit your deposit payment in our online store once you have submitted your registration form by fax or email.

Duration

• Two days

Pricing

• $360 per student unless otherwise stated.  
• All students get a FREE DirtWise T-shirt.
• $100 non-refundable deposit due with Registration Form. This holds your spot, so don't forget to include FORM and PAYMENT!  
• From this tuition fee a portion of it will be donated to the Rider Down Foundation and to the The Blue Ribbon Coalition
• There will be a 15% discount for all returning students from previous Dirtwise schools. There will be a discount for multiple attendees from the same immediate family:
  • 1st member- full price
  • 2nd member-10% off full price
  • 3rd or greater members-15% off full price

Cancellation/Refund Policy

• If student cancels more than 48 hours in advance of the first day of the school, the remaining balance will be refunded and the $100 deposit can be used toward any future school. If cancelled less than 48 hours before the first day of the school, there will be no refund, but all payments will be transferable to any future school.
• No refund is given to a student who is unable to attend the second (2nd) day of class. However, we will allow the student to attend the 2nd day of any other school in the future, free of charge.

Number of students per school

• Regular school with 1 instructor:  10-18 maximum.
• Regular school with 2 instructors:  18-26 maximum.
• HardCore Advanced school with 1 instructor:  15 maximum.
• Once the maximum number of students is reached in each school, a waiting list will be opened and from this list any cancellations will be filled.

Instructors per school

• Shane Watts and additional Instructor as necessary.

School times

• Day 1: 8:30am - 4:30pm (please arrive by 7:45am)
• Day 2: 8:00am - 3:30pm
• Lunch break - approx 45 minutes. BYO lunch and drinks.
• RAIN OR SHINE!!