trust me horrible pebbles and rocks slippy wet grass and muddy green ruts dont feel any different irrispective of what bike and what suspension you have ...meaning they still move like feck undernieth you and its then about dealing with it .....
same old quandry how do get expiriance without expiriance ? you dont
get some basic training and then its saddle time that really counts the most i guess ...good armour body hips knees ... you will fall ..probaly many times to start with . ironically in this daft game the fear of falling often causes the fall and getting to the point to put your eys
where you want to go and trusting the bike to go there is not very easy to do at first for sure as your road expiriance screams slow down or even stop when it looks dangerous and that can be very counter productive when theres no tar undernieth the wheels
.once you get ok on trails then you may ant to do some sand stuff which is different for sure .thinking marroco
...im not a particularly good rider in truth but with some basic trail skills and some basic dos and donts i can usually muddle through and you learn somtimes by mistakes ..as is life i guess ..somtime everything will say slow down when what you really need to do is speed up it not that easy to break that mind set and takes a leap of faith here and there to break the barrier
you will hear lads say when in doubt gas it ....and that isnt always the case for sure ..hard to know when that advice is good or bad without saddle time
stall on a steep slippy up hill and your road brain will tell you to pull the clutch in ...after doing that maby once or twice you will find you will slide gracfully backwards with increasing speed and bin yourself and the whole rig with it .once that lessons learned you learn to dump it and leave it and the rear wheel digs in and you can then practice your hill starts on loose rubble usually rsulting in the rear going sideways instead of forwards
....the joy of it all 
....same thing in a river if you know your tipping over dump clutch stall bike and kill engine before it goes under
my real point being is not to tell you here but to point out that all this stuff is what you will sign up to on a course probably with some practical riding tests thrown in a safer envirment to progress and indeed feck em up in .
it woldnt be a unreasonble suggestion at this stage to say try not to trail ride on your own ..just incase it goes a bit too wrong
i wish you well ......im not really wanting to say much more except good luck and i hope ita ll goes well
I think I gave a bit of a better account of myself today watching the video back after editing (currently uploading at the moment) seemed a bit more confident in what I was doing which was good, had to have another crack as I wasn't to happy with the riding the other day, didn't actually intend to go all the way along the lane today figuring it was super near fox hole at the beginning if I had a miss hap least I could get a drink while I waited for dad to bring tools lol, but I just kept doing a bit more an a bit more an then asked a walker how much till the end an he was like just through that gate mate an ur pretty much there 
a couple of things really that have been well covered from others I think if it came with a comfier seat more people would utterly fall in love with it as it's actually a nice road adv apart from that that in many senses is a true adventure bike in the fact it can go down any track you spot.
an Dave Darcy an Clubby Motorcycle adventure dirtbike tv. The series on those are superb especially interesting was the interview with John from Rally Raid.
