It wouldn't have been due to instructors that rti is nolonger using king city for teaching, rti has quite a few instructors and they tend teach at multiple sites. Just like learning curves doesn't teach out of king city anymore. Who were your instructors? I'd bet it was more personality conflict than verbal abuse. I've visited a few friends when they were teaching and while they are reminding the students of basic technique they are needing to yell to get heard over the noise of the bikes.
I don't want to disclose names if someone has taken the RTI course and wants to privately discuss whom I liked and didn't like then so be it. However since you asked about my experience I'll divulge that but with
Good
Instructor and
Bad
Instructor instead of names.
BI's were very rude. They were generally condescending, on multiple occasions they insulted all of the students and they regularly shouted at the students well above what was required to overcome the bike noise. I spoke with the other students and they also strongly disliked the way they were treated.
When
GI was giving me some feedback after completing a maneuver I told him that I thought he and one of the other
GI's were good. I also said that
BI's were my least favourite, he said "Thank you. I keep telling them they'll get better results from the students if they are nicer to them. You catch more flies with honey, ya know?"
When he said that, I knew it wasn't just me or the group of students. If another instructor is that candid with someone he just met, it really says a lot. Perhaps that is the personality conflict you speak of; maybe
GI's had enough of working with
BI's.
Not long after I completed my course I got a survey from RTI. As I have received these kinds of surveys in the past I know they often have a section at the end for additional comments. I thought that would be a good opportunity to express my discontent with
BI's while praising
GI's approach.
Since my words regarding
BI were not going to be favourable and he was the MTO licensed tester I waited until after turning in the paperwork to the MTO to complete the survey. Otherwise at the end of the course I would have respectfully told him that his teaching style is unacceptable and that we (the students) didn't just lay out several hundred dollars to be treated so poorly; we spent that money to learn how to ride.
After passing my M1 exit at the end of the RTI course I walked back to my car got in and let out a big sigh of relief. Not just because I passed; but because I would never have to see or deal with
BI's.
Perhaps now you have a better understanding of why my experience was not all that it should have been.
Sundance Kid
