Ah, this is a reply to a post i made to this css forum
That I posted 01 December 2011 – 05:44 PM
a high level of integration … by running the tip of the screwdriver over them
Now to apply this to riding motorcycles – we want to achieve a similar high level of integration so that the tip of the screwdriver becomes the tyres contact patch, and the grooves between the tiles become the road/track surface. But this is not so easy to achieve because a motorcycle is a very complicated tool. Being relaxed is vital, now here’s the little ‘meditation’ drill – sit on your bike and close your eyes. Let your arms hang by your side, both feet flat on the ground. Now just completely relax yourself, let your shoulders drop and imagine that your body is sand that is just flowing downwards and into the gaps of the bike. Keep your eyes closed and stay relaxed and start to think about the tyre contact patches. You might want to move the bike forwards & backwards or sideways a little, but keep thinking about the contact patches. What you want to be able to feel is just the contact patch of the tyres on the ground, if you move over a little crack you might even be able to feel that. Once you can feel the ground with the contact patch just the same way as you could feel the tile grooves with the screwdriver – you’re there, you have then achieved some pretty darn good feel. The trick then is just to stay relaxed and keep that feeling as you roll out onto the track…
A high level of integration is even more common in everyday life than we may realise – think about shoes, using a knife or fork, shovel etc. There are so many simple tools like those that we can immediately pick up or use and we have a very high level of integration. If you were wearing shoes and stood on a pea you would probably even feel that. Everyone knows and can relate to that ‘feel’ of integration, the hard part is just to achieve that with a machine as complex as a motorcycle.
Hopefully that all helped to explain about ‘feel’ and ‘listening and sensing’.
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