Hello everybody
This is a second part of my super
Compilation of all the things that I've learned about riding a motorbike on track
So if you missed the first part
I linked it below go watch it before watching this video because you may not
Understand all the things that I am going to explain in this video, instead if you already watched it
Let's not lose any time and go back to listing all the things that I ever learned
Okay, as I said you ride the bike with your legs so on the straight you stay on the saddle and on the corner
you move the cheek outside, but
how exactly do you do that? at the beginning it was complicated because I was on the straight
I started to break and I say oh, oh my god. I need to move the cheek
And I move the cheek while breaking
The thing is that when you're breaking you're using all your strength in your arms
You're decelerating and it's hard to move your body. You have to put a lot of effort a lot of strength and it's not only
Stressful, you also unbalance the bike and it makes braking more difficult
So I discovered two lines of thought: there are those who move the butt right before braking
While still accelerating, and there are those who move the butt as soon as they start to brake
Using the g-forces to slip out of the saddle. I prefer the second one, especially because the 1000 is
So powerful that when you're still accelerating is not that easy to move the butt, but you know
You should practice and find your best way
At this point we need to optimize it so we need not to make unnecessary
Movements on the bike. So if you have two corners in a row on the same direction, for example
You're leaning right you accelerate and you lean right again, you don't put the butt on the saddle to put it back out
But you lean right you accelerate keeping the cheek out of the saddle and the new lean again
Okay, so what about the rest of the body? one of the most common mistakes in the newcomers is to stay always like this you
Are on the straight
300 km/h
With the wind blowing on your face and you stay like this you brake and you stay like this
This is wrong because on the straight You must go inside and when you brake
You go outside because your body it's like a sail. So if on the straight you don't go inside
You lose speed and if in braking you don't go outside
It takes longer to brake
Also when you brake if you go up and this movement must be BOOM! immediate you're on the straight
Boom you brake.. If you're outside, you can put more strength in the handlebars and be more effective
Okay at this point the question is how do you use your body?
When cornering I went to Fabrizio Perotti's school and I learned how to ride with the new style
so I went from riding like a 60s to ride like a
Modern rider. Well, actually I tried but I couldn't. I mean I wanted to go down
but I couldn't and I didn't know why until
Lorenzo a friend of mine showed me that the upper body problem comes from
the accelerator if you wanna go down your body you need to have
the wrist free and the problem came from the throttle if you look at these three photos of three different moments of my
Experience in the first photo you can see that I'm holding the gas like this and you see I cannot go down
Because I cannot move the wrist, in the second photo I'm holding the gas like this and I
Can go down because I can move the wrist so he taught me that when I release the brake
I need to move the hand around the throttle in order to
Be able to move the body and I made a dedicated video which a link below and here
I also understood the importance of the outer leg because when you go down
And you corner, if you don't use the external leg to hang on the bike
Where will you put all your weight? on the hands. This means you will put all the weight on the front
Which means that
Every single movement that you make with your body will be transferred to the front making it easier to lose it and fall
While if you hang on the tank with your leg and use your abdomen to keep yourself up
You will ride more smoothly
On track you go fast. Always. you don't go slow
You need always to push so you never keep your finger on the brake
But when you brake you brake when you don't brake, you release the brake and take the throttle
You must use all your rpms. So on the straight you accelerate almost until the limiter
You don't wanna go like this -- but always like
This is the same for braking when you brake you must keep high RPM's in order to use the engine brake to slow down
When you downshift the clutch must be released gently because if you release it too brutally your bike moves too much and you cannot control it
While if you release it gently the bike remains still
We must accelerate every time you have the chance. So you have to accelerate always, the mistake that I was making
is that when you have those short rates between corners I was doing like I
I was walking while the right thing was to --
Full gas brake full gas brake
Okay, it's cool. Now. I'm starting to learn a lot of things but I still have problems on the straight because the 1,000
pushes too much, it's too fast, too powerful
It scared me every time I accelerate and at the end of the race, I feel the forearms burning
I cannot move the hand anymore and and I'm worrying about it
What is it? Do I have some physical problem, the carpal tunnel, do I have to undergo surgery?
No, it's just a riding problem. On the straights because I was scared
I used to grip the handlebars too hard and you understand that if the race is
18 minutes long, try to hold something like this for 18 minutes
You're never gonna make it
So I started to focus on the gas, when I was training on track, not pushing
I tried to hold the throttle like this
With three fingers, you don't need force to accelerate
You just need to turn the accelerator and then keep it and then I started to release the hand
release the muscles just keep it in position and
Breathe. this thing fixed all my forearms problems
okay, but I kept having problem while coming out of the curve because
My biggest problem was that when I opened the gas the bike ran wild and I couldn't sit on the saddle, moreover
I always was fighting with the front
Also risking is some very bad accidents
And I hate it because every time I was accelerating I was scared I would lose control of the bike
and this was until
Franco Morbidelli taught me one special trick: when you exit from the corners
You don't go back on the saddle with your whole body
But you just go in with your chest and then with the butt and I made a dedicated video which I link below
and
Another thing that I took advantage of was to use the gearshift to move on the saddle
You know that when you upshift the motorbike kicks you a little bit
You can use that kick to go back on the saddle
And this thing made me think a lot because you know, I always wondered
how can the MotoGP riders make twenty eight laps in a row with those bikes so
powerful and
resist for 40 minutes and
When I think about this small thing about using the shifting to move on the seat
I realize that in order to be competitive in the World Championships you need to be able to save every
single tiny energy of your body
So you must be able to master all these tiny things that allow you to to save energy
Because think about this: every time you move on the saddle, you need to make just a mini squat. Okay?
If you do it 10 times per lap for 28 laps
We're talking about 280 mini squats that you make during a whole race
So if you find a way to do them without wasting energies
It means a lot and probably this is the secret to race so long for so many laps and be competitive
By the way, I lied to you because this video is gonna be split in three parts
Really there was so much --- there were so many things to say that two videos were not enough there is gonna be a third one
Which is going to come out tomorrow at the same time and obviously if you are watching this video in one month
Okay -- the video is already out
So at the end of the video, you will find the link to click to watch it. By the way, Thanks for watching
Remember if you have something that you want me to explain more in deep, please write a comment below and let me know
See you tomorrow same time
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