Help.

Happy to help tomorrow if I can fit it in before my holiday, working till 2 or so in Croydon then riding home to Streatham Hill, rather stay local as I'll be packing a suitcase. Ignore all the recent posts about how I've had days spoiled it's very much a negative thing that stands out as negative far more than it would as a contrast for how good stuff normally is.

Even if we don't meet up just remember that your choice of who you learn from at the start with your NSIP training is the foundation for what you need to learn/do to become an instructor, do not cut any corners in making sure you get good training on that 4 days course. Since I did my training 2 years ago I've already seen instructors come and go as they did the training with other places, left the training poorly equipped then just never really got a foothold to start properly.

Take cycle training before you go and get your riding in tip top shape. Your instructor training is not a place to learn the standard for yourself on top of learning how to teach it, that extra work you could have avoided will disrupt your learning. I don't mind helping with this bit, let me know and I'll book some hours in via somewhere but it would end up being after the 24th.

Always go into your own training open and seek the most from it, be professional and stay within the training times not dragging it out entirely to make it unpleasant for the trainer to teach you. But do ask questions and really get your head around it as much as you can. The instructor trainer will guide you and should seek to deliver training to fufil the course requirements and your needs but you can get even more out if you are asking questions when you get stuck or can see something could be important later so ask to get more out of it.

Don't ever be ashamed to say you don't know something or need more help. Don't ever view that you need or are taking more training yourself as a negative thing, too many instructors are too proud to take training or feel they are above it feeling as they are working they must be doing it right. You can always find an area to improve or an area you could expand in.

Take a picture of yourself at your NSIP training, after that day chances are you get locked into a strict no pictures policy so you can work all the hours under the sun and chances are you will rarely have pictures of you doing it. It's a souvenir you will wish you had if you don't, I don't and wish I had thought of it at the time.