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riding in your limits/out of control
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[QUOTE="Ol'89r, post: 1208791, member: 17212"] You will never know your true limits unless you push those limits. The pros ride on reflex. Have you ever dropped your car keys out of your hand and reached down and caught them before they hit the ground? And, you did it without thinking about it. :nod: That is the way the pros ride. They have the basics down after many years of practice and racing, they know how to ride the bike. They know all the tricks. What makes them faster than most mortal beings is they trust their own abilitys to save them in a bad situation. In the heat of racing, you really don't have the time to think about what is going on. You have to trust and rely on your reflexes and natural abilitys to save you. Some people call this, 'riding in the zone'. Others call it riding over your head. If you have to stop and think about every move you make on the racetrack, you cant think fast enough to react to the situation. It has to become automatic. It has to be a natural reaction and this takes years of practice. Try this little experiment. Take a dollar bill and fold it in half longways. Have someone hold the dollar bill just above your hand with your fingers spread to about 2 to 3 inches. Look at the dollar bill and concentrate on it and tell yourself when the dollar drops, to catch it and then without warning have your friend drop it. When your friend drops the dollar, try to catch it between your fingers. Hard to do isn't it? Unless you have very fast reactions, the dollar bill will be about a foot past your hand when your fingers close. Now, do the same thing but, don't look directly at the dollar bill. Unfocus your eyes and simply look at the whole picture. Don't concentrate on the dollar but wait for any movement that your peripheral vision sees. You will find it is much easier to catch the dollar bill when you are relying on your natural reactions instead of the direct link from your eyes to your brain. Our brains tell us that we shouldn't be doing these kinds of things. When we come up to a big jump, our brains tell us, STOP you idiot, you could be killed. :yikes: This is our natural instincts to survive. We have to go beyond those instincts and trick ourselfs into thinking we can do this. We have to be able to mentally project ourselves over that jump before we can actually do in on a motorcycle. To ride like the pros you have to trick your brain into allowing your body to do what it has been trained to do. You have to trust yourself to have the ability to save yourself in these situations. You have to have confidence in yourself. You also have to be willing to accept the fact that this does not always work. You could step-off at speed. You could be injured or worse. You have to be willing to accept this part. If you do your homework, train, wear all the good protective gear and keep yourself in good physical condition, you can usually get away with riding like this. If you don't have the basics or the conditioning you shouldn't even try it. Just my $ .02 Ol'89r "If motorcycle racing wasn't dangerous, everyone would do it and they would call it golf or something like that." ;) [/QUOTE]
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