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Message: [QUOTE="Ol'89r, post: 1345542, member: 17212"] Have you ever dropped your keys or a coin and reached down, WITHOUT THINKING, and caught the keys or coin before it hits the ground? Those are the kinds of reflexes it takes for it to become 'sub-conscious'. Now, try this... Spread your thumb and finger apart and have someone else hold a dollar bill between your thumb and finger about half way down the dollar bill. Have them fold the dollar bill in half, longways and tell them to drop the dollar bill whenever they feel like it. When they drop the dollar bill, try to catch it between your thumb and finger. Unless you have very fast reflexes, it will be hard to catch the dollar bill before it goes through your fingers. We see the dollar bill drop and our brains tell us to catch it. But, by the time the signal gets from our brains to the muscles in our fingers, the dollar bill has already slipped through our fingers and hit the ground. This is because our brains are hard-wired to our muscles. It takes some time for the signal to register that the dollar bill has been dropped and for that signal to go from our eyes to our brains and then to our reflex muscles. It works the same on the racetrack. What many think of as super-human feats on the racetrack are just normal human beings that are relying on their own natural reflexes and skill to save them in a bad situation. We all have this within us we just have to learn to trust ourselves and our reflexes to save us. If you see someone go down directly in front of you and you have to think about what to do, it's too late. By the time the signal goes from your eyes to your brain to your muscles, you will most likely have already run over the rider or crashed trying to miss him. If you rely strictly on your reflexes, you will automatically know what to do and your body will do it without having to take the time to think about it. Going fast on a racetrack is all about tricking our minds to let us do things that our minds tell us we shouldn't do. There is a strong sense of survival in all of us. The trick is to have enough confidence in your own skills and ability to let your natural reflexes take over and trust those reflexes. There again, you get this feeling of confidence by seat time and more seat time. I'm not a fast guy either but, I know some fast guys and girls too. [/QUOTE]

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