Experiences of Cycle Training

So who was it who took a cycle training session on a fixed gear bike with no foot retention? Who booked the lesson just to get some free maintenance training and impressed the instructor by :

1. having no foot retention yet managed to do a proper emergency stop and
   
2. by beginnong the lesson riding in the gutter and ending as a confident assertive rider. Yet told the instructor that you don't need the training apart from to get the free maintenance course
   
   

So fess up and write up your experience here:
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