Replies to post #191 on Bob's Track Friends Chat (TRAKDAWGS)

[Bob Zumbrunnen]

The exercise Sheridan uses to illustrate the importance of keeping your eyes up goes something like this.

You're seated and while he's standing in front of you, he holds an empty hand at about waist level and holds an item (like a salt shaker) in his other hand at about chest level and you need to grab the salt shaker while looking at the hand he's holding at waist level. Nearly impossible to do.

Then he'll hold the salt shake in the waist-level hand and have you grab it while looking at the hand he's got at chest level. Far easier to do.

The point of the exercise is to illustrate that we easily take in and process things *below* where we're currently looking, but not so the things that're *above* where we're looking.

If you're fixated on the exit cone of the current turn, you won't see the spun 911 in the next turn.

If you're looking at the next turn, you're still able to see and easily process the current turn. And, besides, what you did at the entrance and apex have pre-determined where the car will be at the exit, so you don't need to look at the exit anymore.