Chase McGrath October 27th 2006

. It is a Sunny warm October after noon and Chase is getting in some practice. This time of year it can get quite cold, but this day the temperature outside is 63.Well mostly Chase was working on cornering.
So you might notice in some of the pictures listed below his different body positions and his overall form. But if you look close, and you should because there is some learning here in these pictures. Chase was practicing mostly on looking ahead and not target fixing on the rut he is entering.
In some of the pictures below you will notice he is defiantly looking ahead, and then there are those images where you can tell he is not. On his first would of turns he had just started practicing this for the day and there was one instance where he was doing it perfectly and he relayed that to me with a gratifying yell from inside his helmet. I could see and he could feel it.
In the pictures below you will see the correct and the incorrect way to do it. Believe me when chase got it right he let me know. He could tell. The ones flagged in bright green below were his best corners this day. I took about 90 total pictures in about an hour. I am only showing the ones that somewhat turned out. SO that's 90 practice turns and how many Bright green one do you see. "5" that's less than 5% of the time that Chase is doing it perfectly. I don't think that anyone can do it 100% of the time but if Chase could bring that number up to about 15% to start with that's all that many times he keeps his momentum.
So next time your out practicing practice looking ahead. I'm not saying look so far ahead that you have to change your upper body, but look ahead with a fluent manner and see if someone can film you on the same spot for 20 or 30 times then take the pictures and compare them.