Baby steps is a safe way to improve - why would you want to do anything else? Theres nothing wrong with how your approaching it. Riding a bike 'out of control' or take big steps is something that you'd want to do if riding was your job. You, im sure, like most of us earn a crust outside of riding bikes. What im saying is youre approaching it in the right way.

Yep, Daz is another guy I'd recommend.

Sounds like you are doing everything right - just get more and more seat time. Write down what you did, anaylse it over night, go out and try something different if it doesnt work.

Negative - I'm there Wed/Thur/Fri next week though and im fucking excited!!!! There must be about 20-25 of my mates going down so its going to be a huge 3 days