JETS Beginner Level
The skills riders will learn while at the JETS Beginner level include:
General- Able to Listen and take instructions from Coach and helpers
- Basic ability to ride a bike (balance, bike control, use brakes)
- Check own bike and helmet is in safe working order
- Start independently
- Ride in and out of the saddle
- Ride beside another rider
- Ride one-handed
- Brake within a designated distance (emergency brake)
- Riding in a group, being predictable and aware of other riders
- Signalling and calling out
- Start and stop from the fence independently
- Start from handheld start
- Able to hold a line and ride at a steady pace
- Ability to follow a wheel and ride at a steady pace in down-track
- Ability to roll turns (with correct head checking, indicating, pulling up and down the track)
- Modulate speed with pedals (Faster / Slower)
- Ride in drops
- Ability to look and be aware of others on the track, holding a line
- Participate in simulated races (Flying 200, scratch, motor pace, elimination, team pursuit, team sprint) *Only after mastering basic skills
- Know the lines and parts of the track (duckboard, sprinters lane, blue line, fence, The Shute etc)
- Cornering
- Aware of adjusting speed and conering to conditions
- Riding in a bunch (Holding line, allowing space, maintaining attention)
- Knoweldge of road rules (including cycling specific)
- Staying left, being aware of other road/path users
- Following directions of Coach, Marshals, TC's and Commissaires
- Signalling turns and stopping, indicating hazzards, communicating with fellow riders
- Assessing safe cycle routes
- Gear selection and changing gears
- Descending safely