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Tiger

September 22, 2012 at 8:08 pm #19069

Kudos to Abdullah for the awesome theoretical session on the very basics of safe offroading !!! :ymapplause: :ymapplause: :ymapplause: ^:)^ ^:)^ ^:)^

I am pretty sure, the introduction of basic offroad gadgets and the detailed explanation on each one of them is a very valuable information to all newbies and rookie offroaders. Hope all participants made a note of the safety and desert survival techniques :-BD

On a personal note, I had such a detailed guidance on offroading, only from very few offroad veterans. On this occasion, I thankfully remember few of my very senior colleagues at DUBAL, having bedouin pedigree, sharing natural techniques of offroading. Using bricks for deflating tires, checking shadows for navigation are few among them.

For deflating tires without a pressure guage, they use to keep a brick at a finger distance from the tire. Ideal tire pressure for offroading will be when the tire touches the brick. This benchmark is unique for all types of tires!!! [thinking whether it will work for modern offroad tires – ATR, HTR with steel reinforced sidewalls] 😉
During a sunny day, other than at midnoon, directions can be determined without the help of compass by checking on the shadow. But they used a simple technique to find the directions even at midnoon – insert a stick in the sand and mark the shadow, wait for a minute and recheck the movement of the shadow and east will be at the direction at which the shadow is moving.

It was such a similar minute level briefing from Abdullah and we are really proud to have such an experienced and skilled offroad veteran in our family 🙂

Hope the participants enjoyed the relaxing newbie drive and got a chance to learn from the seniors. Surprisingly there is no drive reports or feedbacks from the participants. Guys, its your club and you all are welcome to cast your comments here. It will ofcourse help us to do a better job. Look forward to see you all again at sands in a week’s time :drive:

[Ahmad Pervez]

Ahmad Pervez

September 23, 2012 at 5:45 am #19070

It is indeed a privilege to have such a senior and experienced offroader as Bu Nassir in our midst and I hope that all of us learn from his knowledge and experience.
Thanks Kumar for sharing these basic but very useful tips with us.

[Gabbar]

Gabbar

September 23, 2012 at 7:12 am #19071

Friday Training drive 21 September- A smal trip report

Meeting point – Tawi Nizwa at 2 pm

Total participants 30+

Brief introduction by Ali and Abdullah about offroading, equipments required and their benefits during offroading. As being one of very experience off roader Abdullah gave the brief demonstration of offroading and the equipments required for all drivers during offroading.

All the drivers were split into 3 convoys with a lead marshal , sweep and 2 senior offroaders to drive towards pink rock.

Each lead marshal was given a task to demonstrate the following to the convoy :

Approaching a dune and crossing it an perfect way
Stucks
Popout
Recovery

All the lead marshals were excellent , reached the pink rock with the convoys giving them the practical demonstrations of the above mentioned and it was one of the best moments to see a big convoy of DO’s at the pink rock .

After the drive all the members reached the inflation point at Tawi Nizwa where our Chief Marshal –Ali distributed forms to be completed by all member with the basic equipment required at all the DO drives.

For me it was one of the best training sessions ever attending , where I was given the task by lead Marshal Abdullah to fix the popout, recover a Nissan Patrol stuck and coordinate with the whole convoy,

I thank DO , Ali & Abdullah for this opportunity and also Saif for his excellent sweep and helping out a Hilux to recover from stuck & bring it to the Pink Rock.

Look forward to see many more trip reports from all the participants at the drive.
regards
Amjed

[Jeep Recovery Team]

Jeep Recovery Team

September 23, 2012 at 9:28 am #19075

Thanks to all involved for organising this – a great experience, and it was really good to see so many people turning out – hopefully the newbie drivers will all be returning in the future! :thanks:

[Winchman]

Winchman

September 23, 2012 at 9:42 am #19076

I want to add that the smart part of the drive was that we had 3 convoys, not only a loooooong one. Long convoys are extremely boring and newbies can’t learn much, get frustrated, and don’t come back….at least is my feeling.

I would like to suggest “private” trainings in the future. 1- Marshal, 1-2 Captain and 1 – 2 newbies….. That could be once a month. First drive we make sure the newbee has fun and the car won’t brake 😀 Who knows? We might end up with 11 convoys! :drive:

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