Dirt Track and Flat Trackat theMX-Academy

Dirt track and flat track: it all starts with drifting

Whether your focus in dirt track is on fun or on safety: neither works without clean drifting. Before you can practise the drift in a targeted way, you need a solid basic technique, full control of the bike and a good feel for how to keep the motorcycle balanced. Only then does sliding turn into a controlled drift that you refine step by step.

Dirt track training is not permitted in many places, even though the sport is becoming more and more popular. At the MX-Academy, you either start right at the beginning or build on what you can already do. You only get faster and better through riding technique – not through willingness to take risks, more strength or courage alone.

Flat track riding: the right posture from the start

Dirt track and flat track are like all coordination sports: adopting the correct posture right from the start is much easier than unlearning a wrong position later on. Advanced techniques are also rarely learned in one day; they need constant training. If you want to work on your drift regularly, you come back and build on what you have learned, course day after course day.

Travelling to dirt track training from Germany

You can reach Schlatt TG in around 30 minutes from Singen and around 55 minutes from Tuttlingen. From Stuttgart it is around 2 hrs, from Frankfurt around 3 hrs 45 min and from Düsseldorf around 5 hrs 40 min. If you are travelling that far, it is best to plan for Saturday with 4 hrs of track time, breaks included, and arrive the day before. Including registration, theory and gear, a full course day takes 6–8 hours; the meeting point is the MX-Academy Shop. Without a car, bus 847 takes you to “Schlatt TG, Mettschlatt”, from where it is just around 70 m.