Safe riding is a skill of the eyes and mind as much as it is a skill of the hands and feet. It's important that riders have well-developed perceptive skills. Having good perception means to "see and understand accurately." Our eyes see but our mind interprets, and sometimes we can be fooled into perceiving something that's not there or missing something that is; and that can be disastrous when evaluating risk factors in traffic. The MSF RiderCourses use the strategy of Search, Evaluate, Execute (S.E.E.) to describe the decision-making process that should be used while riding. Our eyes do the searching and our brain does the evaluating. But do we perceive accurately?
Take a look at these visual workouts to discover how our eyes can sometimes trick us.....
Joined: Jan 01, 2007 Posts: 664 Location: CENTRAL NJ
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 9:08 am Post subject:
i remeber seeing these in one of the many riding books.....i realized then our eyes, minds and reflexes are highly challenged while riding.!!! Very sobering indeed! _________________ ~~we ride under the same sun and rest under the same moon~~
**personal motto: to embrace the people, perspectives and pathways I encounter while riding
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