Extreme Sand Driving - You won't believe what a Duster can do ! [FUTURE TERRAIN]
**Exploring Off-Road Adventures with Future Terrain: A Journey Through Sand, Challenges, and Charity**
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### Introduction to Future Terrain and the Expedition
Welcome to an exciting journey into the world of off-road adventures and rehabilitation through motorsport. This article captures the essence of a week-long expedition led by *Future Terrain*, an incredible charity that works with veterans and current members of the armed forces. The goal is to provide rehabilitation programs through adventure motorsport, including off-road driving, rallying, and mechanics. This story begins at the end of last year when I was approached by Future Terrain to document their work and meet the people they support. What followed was an epic three-day expedition on a beautiful army training facility called Braunton Sands in Devon.
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### The First Day: Lantra Qualification
The journey started with a visit to Bobbington Tank, home to the Tank Museum, where I met some of the incredible individuals involved in Future Terrain's mission. On my first day, we embarked on a *Lantra qualification*, which is mandatory for all those who work with Future Terrain. This half-day session combined theory and practical exercises.
In the classroom, we covered basic off-road driving principles, four-wheel drive systems, differential systems, and other essential mechanics. The practical part involved winching drills, digging out cars, and examining emergency equipment on the vehicles. It was a hands-on introduction to the challenges of off-road driving, setting the stage for the days ahead.
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### Green Laning in Dorset
The second day took us into the Dorset countryside for *green laning*. The terrain was stunning, but it wasn't without its challenges. We encountered cross-axling and waded through deep water, which tested our skills and resilience. Despite these obstacles, the experience was exhilarating, offering a taste of what was to come.
Green laning is more than just driving; it's about navigating challenging terrain with care and precision. The beauty of the countryside made it a rewarding experience, even when the wheels got stuck or the ground became muddy.
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### Arrival at Braunton Sands
By the third day, we arrived at Braunton Sands, a site known for its connection to World War II training and its resemblance to both Normandy and desert landscapes. This location provided an ideal environment for sand driving, which is rarely experienced in the UK unless one travels to a desert.
The day began with lowering tire pressures to 15 psi—a crucial adjustment for tackling soft sand. The instructors emphasized the importance of maintaining control while driving on sand, balancing speed and technique to avoid sinking or losing traction. It was a challenging yet fun experience, highlighting the importance of patience and precision in off-road driving.
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### Sand Driving Adventures: Learning from Challenges
One of the most memorable moments came when one of the vehicles got stuck mid-wheel in wet mud and sand. The team sprang into action, using winches and ropes to tow the car out. This drill demonstrated the practical skills taught by Future Terrain, such as proper winching techniques and the use of emergency equipment.
The instructors also introduced us to failed ascents on steep dunes, a highly dangerous maneuver that requires precise control. By teaching how to reverse safely after getting stuck, Future Terrain ensures participants can handle even the most challenging situations with confidence.
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### The Can-Do Spirit: A Motocross Legend's Story
One of the standout individuals during the training was a motocross legend who had suffered a serious injury, leaving him without use of his right arm. Despite this, he remained passionate about motorbikes and off-roading. His determination and skill were inspiring, showcasing the resilience and spirit that Future Terrain aims to nurture.
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### Looking Ahead: Quarry Driving in Wales
As the week progressed, we prepared for more adventures. The next stop was a quarry in Wales, home to Zip World, known for its longest zip line in Europe. Our journey with Future Terrain continued to evolve, blending adventure with rehabilitation.
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### Conclusion: Embracing Challenges and Building Resilience
This article captures just a glimpse of the incredible experiences shared during this week with Future Terrain. From mastering off-road driving techniques to learning valuable life skills, the expedition was both challenging and rewarding. Future Terrain's work is a testament to the power of adventure in rehabilitation, offering veterans and service members a pathway to recovery and growth.
As we continue our journey, stay tuned for more updates on the quarry driving experience and other exciting adventures ahead.
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys and welcome to petroped and welcome to a video i'm making with an amazing charity called future terrain i'm going to take you along with my adventures for the week with an armed forces charity doing incredible things with incredible people now even though this is the beginning of the video i am actually at the end of the third day of my expedition with future terrain and i'm on a beautiful army training facility called braunton sands in devon and we've had an epic three days especially today we've been learning how to do off-road driving on sand today but i wanted to just talk to you a little bit about future terrain and then tell you about what we're doing for the week and this video i was first approached by future train at the end of last year and asked if i wanted to come along and see what they did and the amazing work they did meet some of the guys that they work with and of course i jumped at the chance now future terrain work with veterans and current members of the armed forces um on a range of different rehabilitation programs through the avenue of adventure motorsport namely kind of adventure off-road driving rallying and all of the mechanics and and the qualifications that go behind that and they've done some epic things they raced across the sahara last year for example and the the plans were for us to do some stuff earlier on in this year but for obvious reasons that that didn't happen and then this week we should have been actually driving over the pyrenees off-road in dacha dusters because future terrain is sponsored by renault dacha and they use thatcher dusters and i must say you need to watch this video if you don't think that thatcher dusters have got off-road credentials then you are so wrong it's unbelievable but my week started by first of all turning up to bobbington tank where the tank museum is the regiment there and we spent our first um our first day doing what's called a lantra qualification so all of the guys that work with future terrain atlanta trained and i was um i had to go through that qualification so we spent about a half a day doing theory in a classroom around basic off-road driving principles all of the different mechanics of the car four-wheel drive systems differential systems all the types of basic theory and we then got some practical exercises in terms of doing things like winching drills talking about digging out cars looking at all of the emergency equipment and so on on the car and then the next day we headed off into the dorset countryside to do some green laning now as you can see from that the green landing was just beautiful amazing countryside it wasn't the most technically challenging um driving there were a few moments where we got a little bit hairy cross-axling and wading through reasonably deep water um but the game changed up this morning so we arrived here last night we're staying about an hour's drive from braunton sands and we turned up on the training facility today and we've been basically doing uh sand driving so let's basically look at what i've been doing today um it's been unbelievable absolutely unbelievable we started well we started only the only way you can when you're doing off-road driving we started by getting a car stuck now then guys let me introduce charles from future terrain who well you'll be because of you i'm here yeah you reached out back end of last year so we have arrived at the training uh facility in devon and we're gonna do sand driving today we are going to do a lot of sand driving today and it's really cool we've got the four dusters we've got how many outriders we've got four yeah we've got four most white wins four motorbikes with us so we've done lots of green landing yesterday and lots of theory uh the day before but this is where it starts to get serious yeah it's kind of progressing on so the green laney yesterday is uh gender introduction could be very respectful very careful uh with members of the public you've got a right to be there but it's a different kind of thing it's sort of rambling in the countryside great views and there was some technical stuff there which you appreciate when the wheel was up in the air yeah you've got a gock in my wheel three foot off the ground um and this is moving on this is a materially different kettle of fish we actually do a lot of training there world war two they used to do all the preparations for d their things eighteen thousand something like that fourteen thousand troops in three weeks come through here to do all the assaults and preparation because it is very representative of normandy but it's also very representative bits of it very representative of the sahara yeah some big dunes out there so that's what we're here today to move from our basic level lantern training and introduction to off-road which is more around sort of british stuff it's more mud and grass and tracks very difficult to get any experience with sand unless you go to a desert yeah but we can get it here so this is what we're doing awesome and then the other thing we just need to mention we've got very strict covert guidelines operating this week and we're all living in bubbles and charles and i are in the same bubble so that's why we don't need to have masks on in the car and we've got the windows cracked so just before anybody jumps in the comments and says where's your masks but i'm now going to concentrate because i've noticed we've got we've got sand you better focus this i'm already getting deep so we have our first stock car of the day so charles is doing a ground record because it's wet mud and sand and we've got one of the dusters stuck quite significantly stuck so we're gonna tow him out basically uh it's up to the mid mid wheel that's not sunk down in moored there's a lot of there's about yeah much water and then a bit of slop underneath and i can't get to the door so the biggest flap there having in a minute is how to keep their feet dry which shouldn't be an issue that should not be the first thing in your egg no i would keep my feet dry you want to get your vehicle out and moving obviously you want to be making sure that car 2 stays off up in good ground does it get stumped here it begins to get slippery yeah maybe even pushing back a bit i'd use an extension if need be yeah if everyone wants to get clear and peter if you take the car back uh you want to get back to a safe point where you're happy that the vehicle is on super good ground but you've also got to have a straight pull as well so i suggest you can go back about 10 feet but keeping it across to the right little bit more that's it safety wise then we do not want to be either side of this rope we're either behind the winch car or the guys who are in it are in it tension now sitting out the water ready yeah ready go on the brake peter yeah don't give up keep winching winch all the way out peter if you're in neutral give it a tiny bit of revs just a touch he winched him all the way nope that was just brilliant it's so funny you kind of do all the drills they're learning about towing and winching and all that kind of stuff and then and we've been on the training ground less than half an hour and someone gets stuck so really interesting winting drill what won't have come across on camera is how much suction that car had in that water it didn't look that that bad but you know the the winching to pull the car out was a was a real effort and they're quite high rated winches um really importantly the line that we use the strop that we used are very very highly rated they're rated to be able to pull i think five tons um so although these cars probably weigh you know not much oversized 1500 500 kilos something like that by the time you add the suction of that water that's where it becomes quite dangerous so what we're now doing and and teaching the guys um who are leading us on the mountain bikes because they're kind of working out where we're going to go on the terrain titches are kind of instructed today so he he's purposefully left us at road tire pressures so um what we're now doing is we're dropping all of the tire pressures down to just 15 psi and that will fundamentally transform how the car behaves on the sand the most important thing you need to remember though when you do that is when you get back onto the tarmac set them back up to tarmac pressures but sand driving 45 sorry 15 psi but that was absolutely brilliant so my mighty instructor we're going to have a go still the same stuff traction ground clearance and stability however having done the next obstacle it's kind of super difficult in any car because it's a massive great hole in the ground full of mud yeah water so we're going to give it a go we're going to put through some of the skills we've learned i think ideally we'd like to do this at the end of the day because this is building up our skill but but it's safe and if it goes wrong it'll be me getting out and running the winch out and all that kind of stuff and so we're going to hug the left hand side we're not going to worry too much about the paintwork yeah and i'll pull the mirror in and we're going to go down now the key thing is the speed i think it's probably second gear it's difficult because first and second are quite long and quite um there's quite a difference there but we're gonna go for this is tricky we're gonna go for first we need the torque we're going to go for first we're going to stay right into the left and you're going to go in you're going to keep tight to the left and you're just going to keep progressing we're probably going to do about seven or eight miles an hour as you hit the water if you go at 50 miles an hour the water will come in flood the engine engine's ruined right and it's too dangerous we wouldn't do that it's not that speed so it's a balance of the right speed and not too fast but not too slow but we need to keep momentum so you want to minimize hand movements to set yourself up to go all the way through because as soon as you start to turn the wheel yeah you're going to come in and face across and then we're obviously not on the break we're not on the clutch you're on the accelerator but you're not revving up and down you're holding it there and we'll get the speed right and i'll increase your energy as we hit this we're going to stay left and we're just going to keep going in first in first come on people so go for first yeah i'm in four wheel drive come across to the left now swing across left and power on power on energy stay left stay left stay left stay left power on power power power power power power power yes traction ground clearance stability and we'll just peel off left here can we can we be smug we can be actually quite smug yes is wow we've arrived at what the guys here call the bowl which is basically the biggest sand dune i've ever seen in my entire life and we've got some really important drills here we're going to be talking about i think failed ascents so i'm pretty sure at some point we're going to try and drive up that and then have to reverse back which is one of the most dangerous things you can do on sand because if you get it wrong there's a real risk of the car rolling over which is not a good thing yes we're gonna now have some lessons i think now then everyone this is titch uh one of our chief instructors in all things sand driving yes indeed yeah welcome to the channel mate yeah thank you yeah thanks and while we're on youtube you know i will put so vint uh s bomb vintage works that's right especially i shall put the instagram handle you need to check out that and also keep an eye out for this guy on the telebox indeed yeah uh just did a little thing for bbc2 that people may have seen and that was called the speed shot but i'm actually doing another thing for the bbc that'll be coming out at the next year so yeah we start filming telly star october i'll see you soon yeah keep an eye out just teach him when you see him just remember i introduced him to you first so we're going to do a failed hillar scent lesson excellent one of the most one of the most dangerous things you can fundamentally do is roll back down a hill you see cars on youtube flipping back downhill rolling over occupants come out kit flies around in the wagons they can get crushed and got roll cages because it's just gathering momentum it's scary stuff so what we teach is a failed hiller scent such that if you go into a situation where you try and climb a hill and you can't do it you know how to get out of it so that's what we're going to do now so what we're going to do is we're going to go up and we are planning to fail so this is um this is you know false um a bit of false jeopardy so we won't go all the way up and at the point where we get to the point where we lose traction you will apply the brake yeah if the car stalls that is okay yeah but you might try and catch it on the clutch but you don't want to put so much effort into that you're not focusing so you just keep going up eventually either will spin or we stall and we get stuck and then apply the foot brake apply the handbrake we're then looking to select move it across and we're looking to select reverse yeah we've got the clutch in and because the way this car works when we put the clutch it will have restarted but you could restart yourself if you installed it and then what we'll do we're all set and we're ready to go we've got a foot on the brake we're in reverse the handbrake is on we've got control of the car and this is a critical bit that's you can use it anywhere else but it's more prevalent in sand if you look your head out the window and check where your tires are because so often especially in cars which are more sporty like race cars they've just got a standard steering wheel and people think that they've got two or three turns of lock on they didn't realize they had and the wheels are just going at an angle so we're going to check that our wheels are straight we've gone up in a straight line so we always teach you to go up the hill straight so we're going to calm down in a straight line yeah and the danger with your wheels bit at an angle or indeed you're trying to steer which you never do going down the hill you're always trying to follow the line back down because you come up straight you're going back down straight yeah if the wheels are turned you do a j turn as you come down the hill and then you're on your side and you start rolling and that's all the side rollovers you get so we're not gonna do that so select first in your own time what do you say when you're about to go uh people ready to move ready moving where we go a bit of energy more energy probably pool second i reckon and more energy here we go more energy keep going okay attack the hill but keep it straight and attack the hill and attack the hill here we go here we go here we go here we go there we go so okay we applied the brake yeah we've caught it as you put it in in this car it automatically restarts yeah so we're going to apply the handbrake first that's vital before you drop out a gear yeah no select reverse so the first thing i said to do was i see them yeah yep your wheels are straight i know your wheels are straight you always do the check because when you get tired you make mistakes and what we're going to look to do then is we're going to let the clutch off and let the breakout gently in a minute and we start together and you let them out together so as the vehicle starts to take up on the clutch it's kind of like a reverse hill start what you don't want to do is freewheel because you get out of control so you're using the engine braking to take over so as the clutch comes up and the reverse starts to want to make you go backwards you just let it out and just gently let off and it will just gently start reversing back you're not using the accelerator you're not using the brake but you're covering the brake and you can just lightly cadence brake if you need to to take a bit of speed off what you don't do is brake because it locks up the wheels lock wheel doesn't have any control so you're just walking the car down the hill and then you're using the mirrors and you're checking and you're checking and you just just take it out can you use hill descent control we can and we're going to do it on the second time it's mega good but i want to teach you as if it was a car that didn't have that capability away you go and take me all the way back down to a downhill start that's perfect okay with the bum up in the air and those down like that now then peddlers this motocross legend do you want to explain why your hand is currently on the handlebar as it is my friend uh yeah because i'm a bit of an idiot to be honest but now unfortunately i've got no use in my right arm it's pretty cool plexus injury so nerve injury so from my shoulder down no elbow wrist normally with my fingers so strap myself to the bike because i just love motorbikes i'm off-roading particularly look that is literally now wait so your throttle's on the other side i've got a throttle here a clutch uh and a front brake wicked but i have a thing called the recluse clutch so it's kind of like semi-automatic so you can go through the gears without using the clutch lever but you can use it to gain traction and get over logs etc so it's still there but it's kind of cheating but it's still there so i've just done a failed hiller sound on there but you're going up that one which is even steeper on a bloody motorcross bike i love it i'm sure that it's done hopefully it won't come off this time that guy that guy is a total and utter legend and that is that is everything about future terrain there's just this can-do spirit and i've been watching him flying around the training area all day with his hand velcroed to the bars of the bike here we go hey and he didn't fall off man i stayed up which is always a bonus i went on camera okay so there you go there's the the first couple of days now it starts to get really exciting now um some of the guys are out and about just getting the last few hours of for probably maybe the last hour of sunlight and playing on these dunes um tomorrow morning we're going to be doing some green laning but then we're going to drive up to wales um to a quarry in wales you may know it as the home of zip world the longest zip line in europe and yes we'll be doing the zipline and i'll be bringing that to the channel as well um but i also wanted to kind of just try and immerse you in this incredible charity and some of the work that they do and and the incredible experiences and the incredible guys that are there so um we're gonna um head off to wales stay tuned on this video we're gonna then do some quarry driving we've now learned how to drive in the sand the next thing we need to do is learn how to drive in a quarry and i think it's going to get a bit extreme oh yes good effort um youhey guys and welcome to petroped and welcome to a video i'm making with an amazing charity called future terrain i'm going to take you along with my adventures for the week with an armed forces charity doing incredible things with incredible people now even though this is the beginning of the video i am actually at the end of the third day of my expedition with future terrain and i'm on a beautiful army training facility called braunton sands in devon and we've had an epic three days especially today we've been learning how to do off-road driving on sand today but i wanted to just talk to you a little bit about future terrain and then tell you about what we're doing for the week and this video i was first approached by future train at the end of last year and asked if i wanted to come along and see what they did and the amazing work they did meet some of the guys that they work with and of course i jumped at the chance now future terrain work with veterans and current members of the armed forces um on a range of different rehabilitation programs through the avenue of adventure motorsport namely kind of adventure off-road driving rallying and all of the mechanics and and the qualifications that go behind that and they've done some epic things they raced across the sahara last year for example and the the plans were for us to do some stuff earlier on in this year but for obvious reasons that that didn't happen and then this week we should have been actually driving over the pyrenees off-road in dacha dusters because future terrain is sponsored by renault dacha and they use thatcher dusters and i must say you need to watch this video if you don't think that thatcher dusters have got off-road credentials then you are so wrong it's unbelievable but my week started by first of all turning up to bobbington tank where the tank museum is the regiment there and we spent our first um our first day doing what's called a lantra qualification so all of the guys that work with future terrain atlanta trained and i was um i had to go through that qualification so we spent about a half a day doing theory in a classroom around basic off-road driving principles all of the different mechanics of the car four-wheel drive systems differential systems all the types of basic theory and we then got some practical exercises in terms of doing things like winching drills talking about digging out cars looking at all of the emergency equipment and so on on the car and then the next day we headed off into the dorset countryside to do some green laning now as you can see from that the green landing was just beautiful amazing countryside it wasn't the most technically challenging um driving there were a few moments where we got a little bit hairy cross-axling and wading through reasonably deep water um but the game changed up this morning so we arrived here last night we're staying about an hour's drive from braunton sands and we turned up on the training facility today and we've been basically doing uh sand driving so let's basically look at what i've been doing today um it's been unbelievable absolutely unbelievable we started well we started only the only way you can when you're doing off-road driving we started by getting a car stuck now then guys let me introduce charles from future terrain who well you'll be because of you i'm here yeah you reached out back end of last year so we have arrived at the training uh facility in devon and we're gonna do sand driving today we are going to do a lot of sand driving today and it's really cool we've got the four dusters we've got how many outriders we've got four yeah we've got four most white wins four motorbikes with us so we've done lots of green landing yesterday and lots of theory uh the day before but this is where it starts to get serious yeah it's kind of progressing on so the green laney yesterday is uh gender introduction could be very respectful very careful uh with members of the public you've got a right to be there but it's a different kind of thing it's sort of rambling in the countryside great views and there was some technical stuff there which you appreciate when the wheel was up in the air yeah you've got a gock in my wheel three foot off the ground um and this is moving on this is a materially different kettle of fish we actually do a lot of training there world war two they used to do all the preparations for d their things eighteen thousand something like that fourteen thousand troops in three weeks come through here to do all the assaults and preparation because it is very representative of normandy but it's also very representative bits of it very representative of the sahara yeah some big dunes out there so that's what we're here today to move from our basic level lantern training and introduction to off-road which is more around sort of british stuff it's more mud and grass and tracks very difficult to get any experience with sand unless you go to a desert yeah but we can get it here so this is what we're doing awesome and then the other thing we just need to mention we've got very strict covert guidelines operating this week and we're all living in bubbles and charles and i are in the same bubble so that's why we don't need to have masks on in the car and we've got the windows cracked so just before anybody jumps in the comments and says where's your masks but i'm now going to concentrate because i've noticed we've got we've got sand you better focus this i'm already getting deep so we have our first stock car of the day so charles is doing a ground record because it's wet mud and sand and we've got one of the dusters stuck quite significantly stuck so we're gonna tow him out basically uh it's up to the mid mid wheel that's not sunk down in moored there's a lot of there's about yeah much water and then a bit of slop underneath and i can't get to the door so the biggest flap there having in a minute is how to keep their feet dry which shouldn't be an issue that should not be the first thing in your egg no i would keep my feet dry you want to get your vehicle out and moving obviously you want to be making sure that car 2 stays off up in good ground does it get stumped here it begins to get slippery yeah maybe even pushing back a bit i'd use an extension if need be yeah if everyone wants to get clear and peter if you take the car back uh you want to get back to a safe point where you're happy that the vehicle is on super good ground but you've also got to have a straight pull as well so i suggest you can go back about 10 feet but keeping it across to the right little bit more that's it safety wise then we do not want to be either side of this rope we're either behind the winch car or the guys who are in it are in it tension now sitting out the water ready yeah ready go on the brake peter yeah don't give up keep winching winch all the way out peter if you're in neutral give it a tiny bit of revs just a touch he winched him all the way nope that was just brilliant it's so funny you kind of do all the drills they're learning about towing and winching and all that kind of stuff and then and we've been on the training ground less than half an hour and someone gets stuck so really interesting winting drill what won't have come across on camera is how much suction that car had in that water it didn't look that that bad but you know the the winching to pull the car out was a was a real effort and they're quite high rated winches um really importantly the line that we use the strop that we used are very very highly rated they're rated to be able to pull i think five tons um so although these cars probably weigh you know not much oversized 1500 500 kilos something like that by the time you add the suction of that water that's where it becomes quite dangerous so what we're now doing and and teaching the guys um who are leading us on the mountain bikes because they're kind of working out where we're going to go on the terrain titches are kind of instructed today so he he's purposefully left us at road tire pressures so um what we're now doing is we're dropping all of the tire pressures down to just 15 psi and that will fundamentally transform how the car behaves on the sand the most important thing you need to remember though when you do that is when you get back onto the tarmac set them back up to tarmac pressures but sand driving 45 sorry 15 psi but that was absolutely brilliant so my mighty instructor we're going to have a go still the same stuff traction ground clearance and stability however having done the next obstacle it's kind of super difficult in any car because it's a massive great hole in the ground full of mud yeah water so we're going to give it a go we're going to put through some of the skills we've learned i think ideally we'd like to do this at the end of the day because this is building up our skill but but it's safe and if it goes wrong it'll be me getting out and running the winch out and all that kind of stuff and so we're going to hug the left hand side we're not going to worry too much about the paintwork yeah and i'll pull the mirror in and we're going to go down now the key thing is the speed i think it's probably second gear it's difficult because first and second are quite long and quite um there's quite a difference there but we're gonna go for this is tricky we're gonna go for first we need the torque we're going to go for first we're going to stay right into the left and you're going to go in you're going to keep tight to the left and you're just going to keep progressing we're probably going to do about seven or eight miles an hour as you hit the water if you go at 50 miles an hour the water will come in flood the engine engine's ruined right and it's too dangerous we wouldn't do that it's not that speed so it's a balance of the right speed and not too fast but not too slow but we need to keep momentum so you want to minimize hand movements to set yourself up to go all the way through because as soon as you start to turn the wheel yeah you're going to come in and face across and then we're obviously not on the break we're not on the clutch you're on the accelerator but you're not revving up and down you're holding it there and we'll get the speed right and i'll increase your energy as we hit this we're going to stay left and we're just going to keep going in first in first come on people so go for first yeah i'm in four wheel drive come across to the left now swing across left and power on power on energy stay left stay left stay left stay left power on power power power power power power power yes traction ground clearance stability and we'll just peel off left here can we can we be smug we can be actually quite smug yes is wow we've arrived at what the guys here call the bowl which is basically the biggest sand dune i've ever seen in my entire life and we've got some really important drills here we're going to be talking about i think failed ascents so i'm pretty sure at some point we're going to try and drive up that and then have to reverse back which is one of the most dangerous things you can do on sand because if you get it wrong there's a real risk of the car rolling over which is not a good thing yes we're gonna now have some lessons i think now then everyone this is titch uh one of our chief instructors in all things sand driving yes indeed yeah welcome to the channel mate yeah thank you yeah thanks and while we're on youtube you know i will put so vint uh s bomb vintage works that's right especially i shall put the instagram handle you need to check out that and also keep an eye out for this guy on the telebox indeed yeah uh just did a little thing for bbc2 that people may have seen and that was called the speed shot but i'm actually doing another thing for the bbc that'll be coming out at the next year so yeah we start filming telly star october i'll see you soon yeah keep an eye out just teach him when you see him just remember i introduced him to you first so we're going to do a failed hillar scent lesson excellent one of the most one of the most dangerous things you can fundamentally do is roll back down a hill you see cars on youtube flipping back downhill rolling over occupants come out kit flies around in the wagons they can get crushed and got roll cages because it's just gathering momentum it's scary stuff so what we teach is a failed hiller scent such that if you go into a situation where you try and climb a hill and you can't do it you know how to get out of it so that's what we're going to do now so what we're going to do is we're going to go up and we are planning to fail so this is um this is you know false um a bit of false jeopardy so we won't go all the way up and at the point where we get to the point where we lose traction you will apply the brake yeah if the car stalls that is okay yeah but you might try and catch it on the clutch but you don't want to put so much effort into that you're not focusing so you just keep going up eventually either will spin or we stall and we get stuck and then apply the foot brake apply the handbrake we're then looking to select move it across and we're looking to select reverse yeah we've got the clutch in and because the way this car works when we put the clutch it will have restarted but you could restart yourself if you installed it and then what we'll do we're all set and we're ready to go we've got a foot on the brake we're in reverse the handbrake is on we've got control of the car and this is a critical bit that's you can use it anywhere else but it's more prevalent in sand if you look your head out the window and check where your tires are because so often especially in cars which are more sporty like race cars they've just got a standard steering wheel and people think that they've got two or three turns of lock on they didn't realize they had and the wheels are just going at an angle so we're going to check that our wheels are straight we've gone up in a straight line so we always teach you to go up the hill straight so we're going to calm down in a straight line yeah and the danger with your wheels bit at an angle or indeed you're trying to steer which you never do going down the hill you're always trying to follow the line back down because you come up straight you're going back down straight yeah if the wheels are turned you do a j turn as you come down the hill and then you're on your side and you start rolling and that's all the side rollovers you get so we're not gonna do that so select first in your own time what do you say when you're about to go uh people ready to move ready moving where we go a bit of energy more energy probably pool second i reckon and more energy here we go more energy keep going okay attack the hill but keep it straight and attack the hill and attack the hill here we go here we go here we go here we go there we go so okay we applied the brake yeah we've caught it as you put it in in this car it automatically restarts yeah so we're going to apply the handbrake first that's vital before you drop out a gear yeah no select reverse so the first thing i said to do was i see them yeah yep your wheels are straight i know your wheels are straight you always do the check because when you get tired you make mistakes and what we're going to look to do then is we're going to let the clutch off and let the breakout gently in a minute and we start together and you let them out together so as the vehicle starts to take up on the clutch it's kind of like a reverse hill start what you don't want to do is freewheel because you get out of control so you're using the engine braking to take over so as the clutch comes up and the reverse starts to want to make you go backwards you just let it out and just gently let off and it will just gently start reversing back you're not using the accelerator you're not using the brake but you're covering the brake and you can just lightly cadence brake if you need to to take a bit of speed off what you don't do is brake because it locks up the wheels lock wheel doesn't have any control so you're just walking the car down the hill and then you're using the mirrors and you're checking and you're checking and you just just take it out can you use hill descent control we can and we're going to do it on the second time it's mega good but i want to teach you as if it was a car that didn't have that capability away you go and take me all the way back down to a downhill start that's perfect okay with the bum up in the air and those down like that now then peddlers this motocross legend do you want to explain why your hand is currently on the handlebar as it is my friend uh yeah because i'm a bit of an idiot to be honest but now unfortunately i've got no use in my right arm it's pretty cool plexus injury so nerve injury so from my shoulder down no elbow wrist normally with my fingers so strap myself to the bike because i just love motorbikes i'm off-roading particularly look that is literally now wait so your throttle's on the other side i've got a throttle here a clutch uh and a front brake wicked but i have a thing called the recluse clutch so it's kind of like semi-automatic so you can go through the gears without using the clutch lever but you can use it to gain traction and get over logs etc so it's still there but it's kind of cheating but it's still there so i've just done a failed hiller sound on there but you're going up that one which is even steeper on a bloody motorcross bike i love it i'm sure that it's done hopefully it won't come off this time that guy that guy is a total and utter legend and that is that is everything about future terrain there's just this can-do spirit and i've been watching him flying around the training area all day with his hand velcroed to the bars of the bike here we go hey and he didn't fall off man i stayed up which is always a bonus i went on camera okay so there you go there's the the first couple of days now it starts to get really exciting now um some of the guys are out and about just getting the last few hours of for probably maybe the last hour of sunlight and playing on these dunes um tomorrow morning we're going to be doing some green laning but then we're going to drive up to wales um to a quarry in wales you may know it as the home of zip world the longest zip line in europe and yes we'll be doing the zipline and i'll be bringing that to the channel as well um but i also wanted to kind of just try and immerse you in this incredible charity and some of the work that they do and and the incredible experiences and the incredible guys that are there so um we're gonna um head off to wales stay tuned on this video we're gonna then do some quarry driving we've now learned how to drive in the sand the next thing we need to do is learn how to drive in a quarry and i think it's going to get a bit extreme oh yes good effort um you\n"