Yeah it's a bit more complex.
Example, I could fishtail my bicycle, but only for one down stroke on a pedal, not with a twist of the wrist.
When it was explained to me, loading and unloading the suspension in a corner, how getting off the gas changes all the physics of how the bike is contacting the ground, how appropriate application of throttle makes the bike work better, it was a complete revelation in how to successfully enter and exit. It was a revelation because it seemed to be counter-intuitive, maintain gas or even speed up to be safer? Nobody is gonna pedal harder on a bicycle if they feel they are entering too fast, if they we even pedaling at all and that's because of having a suspension and how it works. How it changes the physics.
One of the classes I took, there were a couple of high mile guys who, simply put, didn't know what they were doing, even said so. They'd had wrecks, in corners, and were at a loss to what had happened. What they should have done. I mean, everyone was familiar, kinda, with contact patch, what happens during braking, kinda, that you even have a suspension, kinda, slow, look, lean, roll, push right, lean right, go right, all the MSF basic stuff but, Total Control I pulled it all together, and little light bulbs were coming on all day long as guys, and gals, began to understand the physics involved, what trail braking gives you, why it really works, dragging some back brake with a little throttle, and tying all this to the mental and visual.
Lotta 'a ha's!' going on when it all came together as to what's really going on, and why, in a corner, what you want to be going on. Lotta physics changing there.
I just think it's critical because that seems to be the real difference between being on a motorcycle and really riding; the physics of cornering.
