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