Maintaining the proper elbow and overgrip position is key to improving your speed on the track.
In order to improve your race results, you first must improve your practice strategies. Then practice the correct techniques until they become automatic. This is the fifth of Gary Semics' ten absolute rules to make you faster, smoother and in total control.
Before you can understand any of the tips you must first grasp rule number one, which is outlined below. Once you accept the first rule, the remaining nine will make you a much better rider.
Absolute rule number 1 - There's a mind to the madness. When you go out to practice have a purpose behind your practice. Don't just race around the track, making the same mistakes over and over. Always spend some time separating and working at your weak points and techniques. Here's tip number four of a ten quick tip series on how to become a better racer.
5. Overgrip and elbow position. Keep your elbows up and out away from your sides.
A rider is giving up a lot of control if he or she has a style of grabbing the grips straight on and riding with their forearms parallel to the ground. By doing this they don't have the correct leverage factors between their upper body and the motorcycle. It's also more difficult to open the throttle.
High over grip and high elbows will enable the rider to have full range of the throttle through their full range of body positions on the motorcycle. This technique also gives you the correct leverage factors between your body and the motorcycle through your full range of movement. Open up you upper body, get those arm up and out away from your sides.
