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Rebecca Rothschild's avatar

Hell yeah. You taught me how to lift at SD. You'll be making a cameo in one of these posts someday soon

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Roberto S.'s avatar

Another banger!

It’s always fun learning a new technique.

I still remember learning about what “coasting” was. I was full sending it at my local track at the time (K1 SD), never did I ever think of letting go of the gas even if it meant the tires would screech my whole session.

Funny enough, the track marshals always put up the sign “gas or brake” and I always kinda looked at them sideways cause I was ripping, why would I let go of the gas right?

Even before ever knowing anything about technique I was always ended being P1 on my races, that is until I ran into an older gentleman that beat me on one of my sessions. He told me “this track requires a lot of coasting “. I asked him, what do you mean “coasting “ and he told me it means to let go of the gas.

Very counterintuitive, to let go of the gas to go faster right? Well, it didn’t take long until I was setting times not far off a second from the world record.

To this day I still use coasting. Even in outdoor karting I’d say it’s made even faster and it’s more applicable than ever.

Keep ‘em coming 🤙🏼

-Roberto

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