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Where do I start?
First of all I must apologise for not jumping in sooner but time is a rare commodity for me at the moment and I wanted to read everything that was said.
For me there are 3 points here:
Road/track skills
Coaching abilities
Thomas Luthi
Road/Track skills
At CSS we teach cornering skills, we are very purist on this. For a road rider, it’s the area of greatest enjoyment and if we can help a rider do it with more confidence he will get more enjoyment from his riding.
The same applies to a Track dayer; it's the corners that create the challenges and fun.
And the racers, it’s where the lap times come down, not the straights.
So, if you want to improve your cornering for whatever reason/goal/gain this is our specialised subject - at all levels.
Coaching abilities
I feel that Johnny Haynes gave such a comprehensive answer to this (see bottom of page 5) and I have nothing more to add.
It was interesting that there were no comments, questions or response to this answer though...
Thomas Luthi
Yes he was already fast but there is a world of difference between top ten and top of the podium. In 125 this is normally 0.5 of a sec. Where could you find an extra 0.5 of a sec? Or 1 second or 10? If you are already at your limit then how do go faster?
Could he have won the Championship with out me? Could he have done it without Sepp his chief engineer? Or Honda? Or his Mental coach? Who knows...? Fact, the TEAM as a whole and a bit of luck helped him win the World title.
Did I make him faster? Yes. Did I teach him 'special' tricks? No. I'll give an example from the 2 day test in Brno I have just returned from.
In one corner he was late applying the throttle, which was affecting his time in that split.
Ok, that is what was happening. Now fil2 what would you do to help him go faster? What is the cause of the effect?
Sandro, his team mate has just spent the whole 2 days working on Throttle control. Did he find it below him? NO, frustrating maybe but in the end when we had a breakthrough he went faster.
I say this a lot but you can't change what you don't know. It is one of the facts of this life.
Let me know your thoughts, I'm around until Sunday night when we have Schools in Ireland.
All the best
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