05-01-2020, 12:05 PM
You know VLJ, I'm not sure that I can say being able to employ the heel & toe technique is all that important to me. I can certainly have fun without doing so, that's not in question. It's just like so many other things in life that interest me but don't really matter to most other people out there in the world — it's one of those things that brings me satisfaction well beyond any performance benefits it might bring. It can be done just driving around the neighborhood for that matter. I mention it because much like riding a motorcycle, I look at driving a sports car as something that I can choose how involved I want to be, or not.
For that matter, I generally have tended to thumb my nose at automatic transmissions, be associated with a car or a motorcycle. However, thinking about how I might feel if faced between riding or not riding, or between driving or not driving simply because my capacity to work a clutch had been lost due to any number of reasons, I reckon that I would be more than grateful for the opportunity just to remain "out there". So my stance has started to change with time. Because for me, at the end of the day "being out there" is what it's all about for me. Be it motorcycles or sports cars, the majority of my friends and acquaintances just don't get it. To them, I've always just been "that guy" who's just a little bit different. Thank God.
In the meantime, I'll keep working on my H & T technique and look forward to reading how things work out with your ankle dexterity — whether or not that means that there might be some heel * toe action in your near future is besides the point. Sometimes improvements are measured in much smaller increments. But improvement is improvement, plain and simple. Having something like this specificallyto shoot for is just a different way of measuring improvement than what the typical PT might come up with, lol.
As far as the two-fingered "V" motion is concerned, my guess is that this speaks just as much to the mindset that you once again find yourself being able to enjoy as it does anything else. S2000 drivers wave to one another, but there's nothing special to the wave and I don't see all that many other S2000 drivers out and about that I have to worry much about my technique so to speak. In my case, when I'm out in the S200o during nicer weather (much like the ferret's brother, I'm pretty much only really interested in driving the S2000 when I can put the top down) I'll usually wave at anyone in a two-seater with the top down, just as I do to anyone else out on two-wheels when I'm on the CB1100. The response rate amongst roadster owners isn't any lower than amongst motorcyclists overall. The bottom line for me is that when I'm "out there" life is good.
For that matter, I generally have tended to thumb my nose at automatic transmissions, be associated with a car or a motorcycle. However, thinking about how I might feel if faced between riding or not riding, or between driving or not driving simply because my capacity to work a clutch had been lost due to any number of reasons, I reckon that I would be more than grateful for the opportunity just to remain "out there". So my stance has started to change with time. Because for me, at the end of the day "being out there" is what it's all about for me. Be it motorcycles or sports cars, the majority of my friends and acquaintances just don't get it. To them, I've always just been "that guy" who's just a little bit different. Thank God.
In the meantime, I'll keep working on my H & T technique and look forward to reading how things work out with your ankle dexterity — whether or not that means that there might be some heel * toe action in your near future is besides the point. Sometimes improvements are measured in much smaller increments. But improvement is improvement, plain and simple. Having something like this specificallyto shoot for is just a different way of measuring improvement than what the typical PT might come up with, lol.
As far as the two-fingered "V" motion is concerned, my guess is that this speaks just as much to the mindset that you once again find yourself being able to enjoy as it does anything else. S2000 drivers wave to one another, but there's nothing special to the wave and I don't see all that many other S2000 drivers out and about that I have to worry much about my technique so to speak. In my case, when I'm out in the S200o during nicer weather (much like the ferret's brother, I'm pretty much only really interested in driving the S2000 when I can put the top down) I'll usually wave at anyone in a two-seater with the top down, just as I do to anyone else out on two-wheels when I'm on the CB1100. The response rate amongst roadster owners isn't any lower than amongst motorcyclists overall. The bottom line for me is that when I'm "out there" life is good.