Ezra Lusk practicing at the Yamaha Supercross Test Track.
In order to improve your race results, you first must improve your practice strategies. Then practice the correct techniques until they become automatic.
Ten absolute rules to make you faster, smoother, and more in control. Absolute rule number 2:
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 two of a ten quick tips series on how to become a better racer.
When you're not using the shifter or brake the ball of your foot should be on the foot peg.
A general rule to go by is that if you're not using the shifter or brake you should be on the balls of your feet. When you need to use the shifter or brake simply move up to the arches of your feet, than when your not using the shifter or brake move back to the balls of your feet again. While riding you are frequently changing back and forth. This is true whether sitting or standing.
The benefits are: it adds another joint to your body's suspension (your ankle joint) for better movement and feel, your feet won't hit the ground in ruts and get ripped off the foot pegs, and you won't hit the shifter or brake by accident. This is defiantly one of those techniques that you have to think about and practice separately. Keep checking the bottom of those boots.
Check Back next month for the next rules to make you faster, smoother, and more in control.
