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Re: Time / Experience

To: "Henry Deaton" <hdeaton@verio.com>,
Subject: Re: Time / Experience
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 06:47:54 -0600
I know Louise didn't have any experience in that situation.... but had been
trained in what to do.... how to recognize it and what to do in the event of
a failure...  The point of this exercise is to learn from others failures
...

Henry your point about experience can't be over rated... the more
comfortable you are in the car/bike the more time your going to have to
focus on what is going on around you rather then hanging on and mashing
things...... That is why I was saying it's important to sit in the
car.....Get comfortable.... THINK

I am fortunate enough to have the ECTA to practice with and one of our first
Goals this year is to get Brad back in the car.... to get him more
exposure.... I raced alot last year.... Brad didn't get much of an
opportunity....

Keith
----- Original Message -----
From: "Henry Deaton" <hdeaton@verio.com>
To: "Land Speed List" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: Time Dialation


> I think she was talking what happens when someone is really experienced at
> what they are doing and is totally focused on the moment.
>
> For example, when I was learning to be a white-water river guide some
years
> ago the experienced guides talked about how eventually time would seem to
> slow down on the river. As a trainee things always seemed to happen way to
> fast for me to react, and I must have hit every single rock sticking up in
> that river. At the beginning of the week I'd close my eyes at night and
see
> all those rocks coming right at me. But, eventually, with experience and
> time my guiding became more and more ingrained and I didn't hardly even
> notice those rocks anymore, and sure didn't sweat over them.  I was now
> gliding by them with my attention focused much farther down the river on
> things that were more important.
>
> So, I think that with experience you don't have to spend as much time
> thinking about the basics. And that allows you to be more totally focused
> on the moment, and more focused on the things that matter most.
>
> Henry Deaton
> SF, CA
> (btw, I started welding my frame last weekend. Watch this space for more
> info on the Arc Angel.)
>
>
>
>
> At 01:42 PM 3/18/2001 -0500, Bill & Dee Bennett wrote:
> >I was watching a TV interview with a top fuel dragster driver last
weekend.
> >She made a comment  about "Time Dilation". She made references of being
able
> >to think in complete sentences and multiple events during a 5 second
pass.
> >This is interesting to me and wonder if anyone could ad anything more to
> >this.
> >
> >Bill
>
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