| What you see... is what you will hit! | | | | than a turn of your head or even your eyes. You |
| Object or Target Fixation is real. Your dual sport | | | | still need to go away from risk. As it's difficult to |
| bike goes wherever you're looking. Why is this | | | | go away from what you are looking toward, and |
| so? Your eyeballs, after all, are not holding the | | | | easy (nearly automatic) to go in the direction you |
| handlebars and you often look in directions other | | | | are seeing, certainly it adds up to look where you |
| than the one you are going in without your bike | | | | prefer to go. |
| weaving all over the road. Is it an illusion? Or | | | | Simply we have always been advised to keep our |
| maybe an unexplored natural law of physical | | | | eyes and head 'upward' and headed at the |
| science? | | | | horizon. Certainly looking downward won't cause a |
| The thought that your dual sport motorcycle will | | | | dualsport bike to go down, or will it? |
| go where you are looking is merely a | | | | Well, not straightaway. If you're in a slide |
| phenomenon. Almost all riders have experienced | | | | however, and look down in all likelihood you'll crash. |
| this before: that if you turn your eyes you tend | | | | That's, because you have failed to actively steer |
| to go in the direction you are looking. | | | | the motorcycle in such a way as to keep it erect. |
| In point of fact, it may be clearer to merely | | | | That's one reason why you ought to keep your |
| admit that it is inconceivable to go in any direction | | | | eyes up and looking at the horizon. The other is |
| other than where you are looking. ALL of your | | | | that it's the only way you actively look for |
| previous experience has educated you to steer | | | | hazards or confirm with any certainty, that your |
| your bike wherever you want it to go. Therefore, | | | | motorcycle is upright. But that's a different story. |
| if you look where you want to go, you apply all | | | | Five Simple Tips to Prevent Object or target |
| that previous experience and unconsciously go in | | | | Fixation. |
| that direction. | | | | |
| There's no magic here nor is there a concealed | | | | 1. Keep your head up and look along the track! |
| natural law of physics involved. Your motorcycle | | | | Your natural response will be to look at the |
| (or car) will to go in the direction you're looking | | | | ground ahead of the dual sport motorcycle. |
| since, from experience, you have taught yourself | | | | Looking as far ahead as the track, speed and |
| subconsciously to make this happen. | | | | common good sense allows. Your perception will |
| Have you ever attempted to throw a ball just | | | | by nature take in the rougher terrain and take |
| past an individual's head? You look at them . . . | | | | the front wheel down a good line. |
| you throw . . . and you hit them!! The same when | | | | 2. Whenever you see a big stone or hole don't |
| you play tennis. When you serve, if you focus on | | | | allow your eyes to 'fix' on that. Take it in and so |
| the top of the net, you are likely to hit it!! | | | | allow you eyes to continue to move beyond or to |
| Transform this to riding. You look at an object on | | | | the side of it. The motorcycle will follow your |
| the road . . . you go right over it! The eyes are | | | | eyes and miss the obstruction automatically. |
| the gun-sight of the mind and consequently there | | | | 3. Keep a 'broad view' of the track in front - |
| are a couple of significant rules for the way we | | | | consider everything as a whole but nothing in |
| see the track / trail / sand road in front of the | | | | particular. |
| dual sport bike. | | | | 4. Keep an eye out for the tell-tale dust trails |
| To capitalize on that phenomenon you just need | | | | from approaching vehicles. |
| to actively look in the direction you prefer to go - | | | | 5. Keep a look out in your rear view mirrors as |
| away from risk. The balance is almost | | | | other may not be afraid to drive faster than you. |
| subconscious response. Naturally it takes more | | | | |