Doohans positioning would make me afraid I'd scrape my ass instead of my knee!!

After working with and being yelled at by Doug Polen, I have to agree with him... y'all make body position entirely too complicated :lol: It should be minimal movement and not hanging all the way off the bike - YOU should still be centered on the bike.

FRU

But it's fun to chat about :lol

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Great thread.
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my fashionably late .02....

I see a lot of people that start experimenting with body positioning in what most teachers would consider to be the opposite order of operations... they start trying to hang off starting from the bottom up and end up being surprised that they're all crossed up... If you wanna avoid that, you gotta start at the top & work your way down.

Step 1 - get your chin pointed through the turn.
Step 2 - start leaning your shoulders into the turn. Keep your arms relaxed.
Step 3 - start weighting the inside butt cheek.
Step 4 - slide your hips over.


Obviously that's very simplified, but my point is, when beginning to work on your body positioning, it's often better to start hiiiigh to get lowww.

i dont think my bike could even get that far over. not while keeping its stator anyway :lol:

btw, does that say bankai on his back? :lol:

Tanakai

they made his leathers.

Well, tweaked some things and got some advice from an instructor at the track and have made huge improvements in my form.

Now I just need to work on some other things. :lmao: