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JEEP SKILLZ DAY WITH METALCLOAK 4/5/2025

JEEP SKILLZ DAY TRAINING AT PRIARIE CITY SVRA

April 5th, 2025

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BASIC TRAINING FOR LIFE (OUTDOORS)

Basic Training for Life

Common Sense, Courtesy, and Protocols for a Successful Life (Outdoors)

By Del Albright, Sustainable Motorized Recreation Advocate

The Outdoors Rules of Life:

1. If you open it, CLOSE IT.

2. If you turn it on, TURN IT OFF.

3. If you unlock it, LOCK IT.

4. If you break it, FIX IT.

5. If you can't fix it, CALL SOMEONE WHO CAN.

6. If you borrow it, RETURN IT.

7. If you use it, PUT IT BACK.

8. If you make a mess, CLEAN IT UP.

9. If you move it, PUT IT BACK.

10. If it belongs to someone else, GET PERMISSION TO USE IT.

11. If you don't know how to operate it, READ THE DIRECTIONS or DON'T MESS WITH IT.

12. If it doesn't concern you, DON'T MESS WITH IT!

NOTES:

GATES: When it comes to gates, leave them as you find them (unless there's a sign saying CLOSE THE GATE and you found it left open).

TRAIL RIDE RIGHT of WAY: Yield to uphill traffic when possible. Smaller convoys YIELD to larger convoys. 4x4's YIELD (pull over) for horses and dirt bikes, pedestrians too).

HELPFUL LINKS:

DEL'S BOOKS (LAND USE, WILDFIRE, DEATH VALLEY, COWBOY POETRY, AND MORE)

WEBSITE (HOME PAGE)

PINTEREST (BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND MORE)

FACEBOOK

INSTAGRAM

DEL'S ARTICLES (LAND USE, LIFE, WILDFIRE, VOLUNTEERISM, AND MORE)

More land use and volunteerism help here:

MEETINGS:
RUN A BETTER MEETING
NEPA:
LEARN MORE ABOUT NEPA
LETTERS:
WRITE A LETTER
SPEECHES:
GIVE A SPEECH
FACILITATE:
LEARN TO FACILITATE MEETINGS
CLUBS:
WHY JOIN A CLUB
CONVOYS:
ORGANIZE A CONVOY
JOIN:
JOIN THE RIGHT GROUPS
TRAINING:
GET VOLUNTEER TRAINING
LEAD:
LEAD VOLUNTEERS
JOBS:
CHOOSE THE RIGHT JOB FOR YOU

ALBRIGHT LAUNCHES TRAINING SERIES FOR MOTORHEADS

ONLINE TRAINING OFFERED IN LANDUSE AND VOLUNTEERISM

By Del Albright

January 2021: Del Albright has launched a new series of online workshops befitting a world of "Zoom" type meetings and calls. Each workshop/training session will be a Zoom meeting or webinar with easy sign-up.

The workshops will cover subjects like letter writing, public speaking, advanced politics, recreational leadership, supervising volunteers, running better meetings, communication skills, strategic planning and more.

All training will be announced on Facebook and other social networks. Participants can dial in with or without camera. Call in by phone is an option too.

Stay tuned.

Del

ONLINE TRAINING COURSE WHILE STUCK AT HOME

HUGE BLOWOUT SALE WHILE WE'RE STUCK AT HOME.

Leadership, Landuse, Volunteerism and more...all done online.

by Del Albright

Sign up and do the course now. Pay later if you need to. 1/3 price offer -- only $50 for 10 Modules and over 200 pages of material based on 50 years of motorized recreation, 35+ years of landuse, and 30 years of managing volunteers.

Email me or DM me on FB to get started. Just do it while the time is right.

http://www.delalbright.com/RLTC/rltc.htm

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Del

ARE FEAR AND EGOS STOPPING US FROM WINNING THE WAR ON ACCESS?

LEARN OR DIE: BOOK REVIEW FOR RECREATIONAL LEADERS

By Del Albright

Caroline Cornell interviewed Edward Hess, author of Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization, in Communication World Magazine (Dec. 2014), the voice of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC). The link is below. I took Mr. Hess's words and just substituted "companies" and "businesses" with our OHV words like Groups and Organizations to show how his wisdom and advice applies to off-road groups as much as it does to today's business world.

So when you read this really valuable article (link below) about technology and learning, see if this hits you the way it hit me as to how it relates to off-roaders and backcountry recreation groups. Here are some highlights that slapped me across the face as applying to those of us in the recreational world, especially those in leadership positions.

Those groups that best incorporate the science of learning into their culture, processes and practices will be the winners. Winning groups learn better and faster.

That learning environment will be a humanistic, positive, emotional environment that results in high employee engagement—designed to mitigate the two big learning inhibitors, Fear and Ego. (Note, back in the 80’s the big thing was “Japanese Style Management – known as Quality Circles where the guy putting the widgets together had a huge say in the way the widgets were made. Factory workers helping designers).

Emotionally we are defensive “thinkers” seeking to protect and affirm our self-image. Real learning (old dog new tricks) requires optimizing our humility and opening the door to better listening. Most folks in our organizations listen to confirm we were right in the first place and have trouble suspending judgment while the other person is still talking. It makes our motivation appear more to look smart than to learn. (Read more on my take on "aerobic listening" here on my website: http://www.delalbright.com/articles/opponents.htm.)

Many OHV group leaders have yet to figure out how to be an open-minded, non-defensive, good listener who is willing to subject his beliefs to challenge by others.

One of the big tricks to “being smart” for our organizations is to KNOW what we DO NOT know, learn how to overcome that and learn from our mistakes.

So I'm curious how this applies to what you've seen in OHV/Recreation groups and organizations, even clubs? For me, to take this info and build it into our strategic plans, training workshops, business plans, club bylaws, whatever, just the way we do business, might give us a heads up to win more and back-track less.

Good information on how we can get better with using our technology.

http://cw.iabc.com/2014/12/08/stay-relevant-todays-technological-age/

Del

Del Albright Training Workshop VLLS Announcement

FREE FREE FREE

VOLUNTEER LEADER & LAND STEWARDSHIP (VLLS) WORKSHOP DATES ANNOUNCED!

Feb. 27 – Mar.1^st, 2015, Sacramento area, CA

Presented by BFGoodrich Tires and Omix-ADA/Rugged Ridge
Sponsors include Poly Performance, Synergy Manufacturing, Raceline Wheels, Poison Spyder Customs

and the CA4WDC Conservation & Education Foundation (so far)

With a special dinner provided by MetalCloak

(September 14, 2014). The one-of-a-kind hands-on landuse and leadership boot camp, Volunteer Leader & Land Stewardship (VLLS) Workshop is scheduled for the weekend of Feb. 28th, 2015, developed and presented by Del Albright. Student applications are available now to get your name in the hat early for limited seating. Apply even if you aren’t sure you can make it, but want to be kept in the list of available seats. 35 students are expected to attend this workshop.

VLLS 2015 is going to be the revival of volunteer training that started in 2004 to develop more leaders in volunteer organizations/clubs fighting for landuse, trails and access to public lands. This will be workshop #5 since the course started as the follow-up, hands-on portion of online training, Recreational Leadership Training Course (RLTC at www.rltc.biz).

LEARN: There is no other training like this in the country! Learn tips and tricks galore in landuse, leadership, and supervision, including:

· team-building

· how to supervise and nurture volunteers

· how not to burnout

· tips for dealing with politicians and bureaucrats

· trail maintenance and water issues

· land stewardship concepts

· how to run better meetings

· secrets to public speaking

· letter writing

· event organization

· how to inspire and motivate others

· and much, much more

DETAILS: Check in will be Thursday night (2/26); Graduation will be Sunday afternoon (3/1). Students must commit to full weekend in the classroom, starting Thursday night and ending Sunday mid-afternoon. Lodging is provided as part of the training package. Local students may make special arrangements for other lodging or home lodging if critically necessary.

NO COST: Course is (mostly) free to students (including lodging); some meals and individual travel arrangements will need to be provided by students; but all training material, lodging, training facilities will be covered by business and organizational partners/sponsors.

TOPICS: More on subject matter here: http://www.rltc.biz/vlls. VLLS was written and developed by Del Albright as an extension of the online (via email) Recreational Leadership Training Course (RLTC) developed by Del to teach volunteers how to inspire, motivate and facilitate others in keeping trails open, our sports alive, and our public lands available to all.

SPONSORS: Sponsors make this course possible. They believe enough in keeping trails open and our sports alive that they are willing to invest substantially in giving you an opportunity to elevate your effectiveness in landuse and leadership.

The premier partners presenting this workshop are BFGoodrich Tires and Omix-ADA/Rugged Ridge. Other sponsors include Poly Performance, Synergy Manufacturing, Raceline Wheels, Poison Spyder Customs, MetalCloak, and the CA4WDC Conservation & Education Foundation. Please pay them a visit and THANK them for supporting landuse and leadership training for our future.

APPLY NOW!: Student Application here: http://www.delalbright.com/RLTC/vlls_student_application.doc

Del Albright

RLTC/VLLS Course Developer and Leadership Trainer

2014 Inductee, Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Fame (www.ormhof.org)

RLTC/VLLS Website: www.rltc.biz

Email del@delalbright.com

TRAIL ETHICS AND COMMON COURTESY

BUILD YOUR CLUB A TRAIL ETHICS/COMMON COURTESY LIST AND HELP SAVE OUR SPORTS!

By Del Albright

One primary way to save our sports and keep our trails open is to always set a good example for others...especially for those who are not members of organized recreation and might not know the rules of the road. Your club or group should have a list of rules/ethics to play by. It's not a hard thing to build (the list) and it just takes education to get folks to follow along. Well, some folks might never get it and they just need to be busted by the law if needed.

But for most of us, given a simple set of common sense rules (trail ethics), we will follow them. If you don't want to build your own, use something like these samples. If you want to build your own and adapt it to your specific area, just sift and sort through these and pick the ones that make the most sense to your club.

Let's bring in the kids too! Don't expect public schools, for the most part, to teach your kid common sense or even common courtesy....let alone manners. It's just not happening in most places. Seems like a lot of schools would rather indoctrinate your kid into hugging a tree or loving liberalism. Be that as it may, include your kids in the ethics you use for your club/group. Teach them young.

A lot of what folks think about us comes from our "image." And image is perception sometimes....what people perceive; they believe. So be careful when it comes to our image. The minute we get lazy and don't stop for some trail trash, there will be someone who wants to blame that trash on us!

Here are some links to great Trail Ethics and some common courtesy stuff that will help you find the best list for you and your club/group.

Some Basic Training Rules for Life:

http://www.delalbright.com/Articles/basic_training.htm

Volunteer Training Half Price Holiday Deal (online)

Half Price Training Offer on RLTC

With it being Veterans Day, and the Holiday Season with Christmas right around the corner (turn off the music already), I would like to offer my online training course at half price until the end of the year. The Recreational Leadership Training Course (RLTC) will give you 10 ways to help your club; 3 or 4 new pointers for public speaking; lessons in leading volunteers you can't find ANYWHERE else; the inside scoop on saving your trails; and the SECRETS to avoiding burnout in landuse and your club, among dozens of other helpful tips for getting involved in the fight for access.

RLTC is a 10 Module course with an Exam (via email) for each Module. You work at your own pace. It's all online.

Normal course price is $150. From now until the end of 2010, the full course is $75.00 (US).

Learn more here (or just drop me an email to start at del@delalbright.com and pay when you can or as you go): http://www.rltc.biz/

Del

VLLS -- Volunteer Leader & Land Stewardship Class #4 Graduates

The fourth leadership training class of the Volunteer Leader & Land Stewardship (VLLS) Workshop graduated on Nov. 16th. at Ghost Mountain Ranch, Pollock Pines, CA. 18 graduates hit the street with new OHV skills and have become part of a unique team of folks striving to save our sports and access across the country. This is a workshop I developed based on my online training course, the Recreational Leadership Training Course (RLTC).

Learn more and see a photo essay of the recent classes (and sign up for the next class) right here:
http://www.rltc.biz/

By the way, if you finish the online course by Dec. 20th, you get in on a fantastic drawing for prizes like a winch, Rancho Shocks, and a Warn PullzAll (plus a ton of swag for all grads).

Del