For the last time this season, the FIM Europe MXGP Academy was active in Assen with the Academy for young riders. On Friday afternoon, just before the Motocross Grand Prix, the training sessions were held on the wonderfully prepared track, created on the famous TT-circuit.
The riders and their parents enjoyed the program. The weather conditions were perfect and the atmosphere was good: these are the ingredients for a lot of fun and perfect training sessions.
Fifteen young Dutch riders in the class 65 and 85cc were trained by John van de Berk and Jan Postema on a part of the circuit. The riders showed their enthusiasm for the opportunity to ride on this track, prior to the famous MXGP.
One important session in the program was with the parents in the evening. Martin van Genderen (coordinator and trainer) and Jan Postema took care for this education program. The trainers received a lot of positive reactions afterwards about the workshop “Communication with a young MX riders”.
“This workshop has the intention to open up the eyes of the parents and give them some tools for a better communication with their child/rider” said Martin van Genderen. These kind of “eye openers” always works for the parents. “They want to do the best… however not always in a right way”, said Jan Postema.
The FIM Europe MXGP Academy is based on education, particularly for children and parents. Both are responsible for the follow up in the future. In other words, some of these young riders can become our heroes on the longer term. Parents are the base of this success, so it’s important to pay attention to this item.
For the next season, in cooperation with Youthstream the team will organise again 8 training sessions for young riders, but also for trainers all over Europe.
