Balance Exercises for Motorcyclists
Balance Exercises for Motorcyclists
Improve Body Awareness, Bike Handling and Cornering Confidence
About the Book
I've been riding a motorbike for twenty years and it is only in the last few years that I've really began to understand the real basics of cornering. And it's not so much about controlling the bike as it is controlling your body.
The better you can feel and control your body the easier it is to control your bike.
I've been a yoga teacher for only slightly less longer than I've been riding but perhaps what has been most important for helping me to improve body awareness (and help my students do the same) has been studying and practicing Tai Ji. In general I apply what I've learned in Tai Ji to help my students learn to feel and control their center of gravity. And this is one of the keys to learning to be a better biker.
The better we can feel and control our own center and the bikes, the easier it is to corner with confidence because we can feel what we are doing with our body and we know the affect this will have on the bike.
You might think that you don't have the ability to learn to feel your body. And that is part of what I've spent the last few years on improving, my ability to teach people how to feel and control their body. It's been extra challenging because I teach in Taiwan and my Chinese sucks. And so I've learned how to explain things simply and clearly and how to help my students improve gradually.
Biker yoga won't change you into a better rider overnight, but it will help you become a better rider gradually. And the cool thing is, like learning to ride, and actually riding, the journey can be interesting. Instead of touring the countryside you'll be touring your body, learning to feel it and control it so that you can better feel it and control it while riding, without having to think about what you are doing.
In this way learning to feel and control your body is like learning to ride a bike. You eventually learn to do all the things that go into riding without having to think about it. You can then focus on what you are doing, riding.
Table of Contents
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Introduction
- Ebook Navigation and Layout
- Seated 1: Awareness Exercises
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Motorcycle Riding Notes 1
- Repositioning to Maintain and Maximize Sensitivity
- Noticing Imbalances So They Can Be Corrected
- Creating Space
- Seated 2: Weight Shifting
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Motorcycle Riding Notes 2
- Finding Center with Variations of the Ribcage Slide
- Seated 3: Butt Lifts
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Motorcycle Riding Notes 3
- Noticing Foot Pressure on the Pegs
- Centers of Gravity (The Body has Several!)
- Being Aware of Compensatory Movements
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Standing 1: Weight Shifts
- Standing Forward Weight Shift
- Side to Side Weight Shift
- Foot Lift
- Staying Balanced on One Foot
- Single Leg Heel Lift
- Half Moon
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Motorcycle Riding Notes 4
- Noticing Changes in Tension (and Pressure)
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Standing 2: Body Awareness Exercises
- Standing Spinal Back Bending
- Chest Lift
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Standing Spinal Front Bending
- Standing Spinal Front Bending on One Leg
- Ribcage Sliding
- Hip Hinge/Thrust
- Hip Hinge/Thrust with Weight Shift
- Standing Side Bend
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Motorcycle Riding Notes 5
- Feeling Your Center of Gravity
- Shifting Foundations
- Standing 3: Leg Stability Exercises
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MotorCycle Riding Notes 6
- Practicing Smooth Transitions
- Feeling Elbow Bend
- Floor 1: Shoulder Awareness and Belly Up Exercises
- Shoulder Blade Awareness Exercises
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Floor 2: Belly Down Exericses
- Knee Balance
- Lunging Weight Shift
- Low Lunge Knee Lift
- Cat Pose Protractions
- Cat Pose Knee Lift
- Balancing Cat Pose
- Cat Pose Weight Shifts
- Bakasana/Crow Pose
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Motorcycle Riding Notes 7
- Using the Hands as Sensors
- Using the Ribcage Slide to Initiate Counter Steering
- Controlling Counter Steer Pressure by Twisting
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Motorcycle Riding Notes 8
- Noticing Contact Point Pressure (and Tension)
- Cornering Force and Shared CGs
- Optimum Effort
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Arm Awareness Exercises
- Shifting Arms Relative to the Upper Body
- Shifting Upper Body Relative to the Hands
- Lengthen Your Spine
- Pictures: Seated 1, Body Awareness
- Pictures: Seated 2, Weight Shifting
- Pictures: Seated 3, Butt Lifts
- Pictures: Standing 1, Weight Shifts
- Pictures: Standing 2, Body Awareness
- Pictures: Standing 3, Leg Stability Exercises
- Pictures: Floor 1, Shoulders and Belly Up Exercises
- Pictures: Floor 2, Belly Down
- Pictures: Arm Awareness Exercises
- Motorcycle Riding Notes 9
- Keep Looking Ahead
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