{"id":23186,"date":"2019-07-22T03:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/?p=23186"},"modified":"2019-07-15T18:34:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T01:34:51","slug":"q-what-do-you-think-of-learning-the-cornering-line-from-following-an-instructor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/q-what-do-you-think-of-learning-the-cornering-line-from-following-an-instructor\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: What do you think of learning the cornering line from following an instructor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: <em>\u201cOn your <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/podcast.speedsecrets.com\/\"><em>podcasts<\/em><\/a><em> I&#8217;ve heard you mention coaching a student and giving them instruction in the car. What about lead-follow, where the student follows you as you drive the line? I think I learned way more from my driving instructor when I tried to follow\u00a0the line he was showing me. What are your thoughts?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong>: Lead-follow is a great learning technique, as long as it\u2019s not overdone. I\u2019ve always used it when I can. The only downside to it is that at some point the driver needs to understand <em>why<\/em> they&#8217;re driving the line that they\u2019re driving, and not just follow someone else. There are some drivers who are very good if they\u2019re copying what others have shown them, but they struggle on their own. That\u2019s why I say it can be overdone.<\/p>\n<p>If all you do is follow another driver, have you really understood why you\u2019re doing what you\u2019re doing, or simply copying what they\u2019re doing. Sometimes copying someone leads to that Aha! moment where you understand why you\u2019re doing what you\u2019re doing. But sometimes it only leads to knowing how to copy.<\/p>\n<p>Why is the understanding <em>why<\/em> so important? So you can apply the principles to other corners, and other tracks, when you don\u2019t have someone to follow. Use lead-follow for a while, but don\u2019t get overly reliant on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: \u201cOn your podcasts I&#8217;ve heard you mention coaching a student and giving them instruction in the car. What about lead-follow, where the student follows you as you drive the line? I think I learned way more from my driving instructor when I tried to follow the line he was showing me. What are your thoughts?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-ross"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23187,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23186\/revisions\/23187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}