morning sunshine morning oh [ __ ] piece of that door just fell off
okay two kinds four cones yes two cones to four cones so we're gonna start with the figure eight
um since you're starting to get the sliding down you did a lot better that last time out
so the path is going to be the same as you took this morning with adam where we're going
to be going uh you know clockwise around this cone which is the closest one to us
and then counterclockwise around the one up here i've added these orange cones out there those are
our vision cones so you're not actually going to drive the car around those it's just a fixed point
that you can focus your eyes on as you're going around one of these cones there's going to be an
urge to look where the car is trying to take you you have to fight that urge and look where you
want the car to go yeah um feel free to yell at me i will absolutely and then also instead of just
going around a circle and initiating the slide we're going to do it each time so as you as you
get around this uh this cone up here i want you to start turning left can we giggle use the throttle
to get the back end out look for this cone and then you know as we come down here and you get
around here use the throttle to get the back end out and look for this cone so you know this area
is where we're going to be sliding in and same thing up there that area we're going to be sliding
in and eventually we're going to link this into a figure eight we're gonna go from sliding around
one cone you'll never stop sliding all the way up to the next cone what yeah but this is how we're
gonna learn the process so technically at this point i'm like slide drive slide drive correct
yep you got it ready yeah let's go okay let's start to do the figure eight so i want you to
drive don't worry about sliding for this first lap i want you to drive towards this orange cone
and right around here you got to start to pick up the other cone so look for the next cone
and just drive straight towards it yeah good start to move your eyes into the next circle
and right around here is where we're going to hit the gas and then look this one's tough to look
for you got to look up for that cone there we go and right around here you're gonna get on the gas
remember the soft hands are really light with the hands okay three two one go
you absolutely not not light with the hands you're a death grip on the wheel
okay yep head towards this cone and as we go around same thing good job white with the hands
look for that cone good
nicely done same thing on this side remember to look for the comb whenever you're ready
okay okay so something something that's happening is very similar to what you were
doing this morning with adam which is as it's time to start the slide and i'm going to use
down here as an example you start turning left and then right as you're about to hit the gas
you crank the wheel a whole bunch more to the to the right right so yeah so as you're turning right
you start cranking the wheel more to the right and what that does is we start getting understeer
where the front tires start to slide that's not the big problem it's a small problem the big
problem is since you've turned the wheel so much more to the right now when the back end comes out
you got to crank all that steering out and get the counter steering it's just too much to do
right that's why we hold the wheel in one spot once you start turning and just do the
gas correct yep good same thing on this end start to turn throttle look for the cone good getting it
okay we'll we'll try again this is all all part of the learning process see at the limit of what
a tire can do it's your feet that control how much the car turned not the steering wheel and
that's a very hard habit to break so yeah so you hitting the gas is what causes it to turn
not you excessively turning the wheel yeah right right so you can go just a little bit
more steering keep going a little bit more look for the cone throttle let the wheel do the work
look for the cone good good good good again relax throttle
don't don't fight that wheel good look for the cone nice throttle look for the cone
ah there we go just like that again remember no no upper body tension as relaxed as you can be
look for the cone that was perfect do the same thing again
a little bit a little bit slow with that with the
steering i think you already know that though yeah i do
good that's it again
let the wheel do the work you're controlling
never ever ever stop looking where you want the car to go okay and don't forget to be fast with
those hands you're fast for the steering wheel ah that was pretty good full power
make sure you're looking for the cones okay
full throttle to the floor get this down pretty good
you spoke too soon i did
power down
so at the moment i'm not connecting it into a figure of eight i'm kind of doing slide drive
slide drive and apparently what i need to be able to do is go slide
i did had a minute where i looked at conrad and i was like this is that part of the process where i
start getting annoyed at myself yeah recognizing that i was about to get frustrated with myself
kind of made me go well that's pointless i feel like most of us have that moment that's the
i'm understanding what i'm doing increa like before he would tell me what i was doing and
correctly i kind of knew it gets frustrating but eventually you're gonna have a breakthrough my
my grip on the wheel and also your body becomes a conduit for feeling what the car is doing and
it becomes an instinct and if you're tight same goes for loads of things but if you're really
tight i can't sense that i was consciously telling myself i was going breathe relax
because you have to cut otherwise this starts to happen
relaxing it's like you take in the information you've been given to the best of your ignorant
ability and do that and do that and do that until it makes sense and once it makes sense to me in a
physical way it also is like then i can say it back to him then i can say to him oh i know i
did this right he's like yeah i'm like i know straight out of the gate that i [ __ ] it up
i know that you know or what i did and once that happens then you can build then i can build on it
that's the theory the very first time i saw her go out very average in the fact that she was doing
all the things that most people do incorrectly to to try to slide a car uh namely excessive steering
input um too much speed into the corner the big breakthrough was her being relaxed in the car and
realizing that the steering wheel wants to do the work for you you know once she started to have a
nice light touch of the wheel she could feel it tugging her hands and saying hey we got to turn
this way and once she got that timing down that field down she picked it up like that especially
doing the circles going from the circles to the figure eight was mainly once once she figured out
what to do on the circles she got so consistent at it there's no point in staying at that for
a long time so we jumped into the path of a figure eight which i would call chapter two
uh but pulling the figure eight off is like chapter seven eight nine i mean it's way down
the book but she's doing so good i'm expecting that same like systematic approach i think she's
going to be able to pull it off today what is that crunching that happens there i had no idea
i have no idea all right you got it full throttle let's get on it clutch handbrake off handbrake
there you go that was actually perfect i don't know what else to say like that was
it do it again let's make sure that wasn't beginner's luck keep going keep going clutch
again full throttle clutch
got it again full throttle little chicken
clutch
it's perfect zoe amazing job uh i think it's going to be smart for me to hop out of the car
now the car is going to be lighter it's going to be more responsive and you're not going to have
somebody yapping at you from the right seat i don't know i don't know if i agree with it
give it a try if you struggle come pick me up okay okay have fun
oh far out
holy [ __ ]
holy shabbos how are you doing god i just have to have moments to breathe and have some water
and like you're doing you're doing a very good job okay with the car control uh we have to
talk about car position um the way it looks like you're drawing the path around uh um the
the actual figure eight is almost like like an hour glass where you're you're taking this path
like this yeah okay that is a pretty alligator right so almost like that you you are getting a
little bit closer out here but it's really as you come around when we're doing a figure eight i'm
gonna use i'm really aiming for that guy you are so excited that i feel myself coming real close to
this maybe a little bit more like this yeah right yeah when when we're doing we meaning people that
can do it meaning you um collectively royally you need to come out here like like you're doing to
start the slide and as you start the slide we want to do this arc like this and really hang
it out here for a long time and we're going to bring the car across the center like so and then
we're going to do our flick over here and it's the same thing so you'll see as we cross through the
middle it's almost like we're going perpendicular to these cones right so it's much more of like
two big zeros as opposed to an hourglass figure eight so you know again like two of what i did
this morning there's nothing out here to hit you can go wherever you want out there you know let
let the car hang out way longer you don't have to cut it so so tight to these these cones let
it hang out way longer what that's going to do is it's going to keep our rolling speed up out here
yeah so instead of slowing down to 10 miles an hour and getting tight to the cone we'll be in
our you know 20 25 30 miles an hour and being able to keep the speed up and that's going to
help us stretch the slide right now if you were to go for your your your flick because
you don't have that speed built up you would run over this cone yeah if you just went for
it probably with with the door or something and you'll see as we take these bigger arcs way out
wide you're gonna see that you're gonna have enough speed that it's gonna make it around the
next circle yeah i mean all right totally makes sense right yeah to be honest i'm gonna nail it
dude so you have been driving without conrad you've been alone in the car for the last six
years tell me tell me what's been going on a lot of talking to myself yeah a lot of sort of
taking in what he had said and trying to not be hearing it as much as sort of feeling it which
i think worked a couple of times and then failed me a couple of other times um i find when the
teacher leaves yeah i often revert back to like terrible behaviors i had before that i have to get
out of my system that's the talking to myself like i noticed myself not going full throttle and i
was like zoey full throttle okay but there's some there's an advantage to telling yourself yeah that
and often i feel like in the past my learning has been a bit like i need instruction and i need that
and then i need to go just sort of for lack of a crash term sort of just go [ __ ] it up for a
little bit on my own yeah and then come back in for a little bit of feedback and then go well
because the e-brake addition is this whole really specific timing of like a there's like multiple
steps to using the e-book yeah yeah that's hard to burn in yeah i mean all of it's a bit foreign to
me so it's always all burning in at the same time my brain was just smoking well it felt
like the last couple of runs you had you really liked these really wide turns they were beautiful
it felt awesome it felt like peaceful and it felt light and like this was all and my foot
was just doing the thing and then you know and then you're like oh my god i'm doing it
oh [ __ ] you become conscious of it and then it all turns to [ __ ] so that's the
end of this episode i think next episode conrad wants to review some drone footage
of your runs to talk about it and then i think it's more driving yeah i want to i want to link
i want to do two donuts and make it a figure eight that's my plan all right that's the next step you