How many of you Auto Drivers drive with two feet?

Hotrodz · 02-19-2013, 08:50 PM

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Originally Posted by CDepp

I believe you are mistaken. Toe and heel is nothing like left foot braking. Toe and heel is all right foot on both the brake and accelerator, left on the clutch. It's a method of double declutch shifting while using all three pedals at once.

Luckily, you have a Nismo that already accomplishes what toe and heel works to perform: 'blipping' the accelerator while decreasing speed to downshift and match the speed to your gear for coming our of a corner.

I not saying its totally the same, but the whole deal is about coordination and control. The design or placement of the pedal are done because most people are right handed and have little or no coordination with their left hand or foot. It all goes back to left handed equals sinister or wrong! However, if you grow up knowing only how to left foot brake you would not know that it was "wrong."

So if you can't dribble a basket ball with your left hand, switch hit or are otherwise ambidextrous it probably not a smart move. I played college baseball with a guy that pitched both games in double header, one right handed and the other left and won both of them to get his team to the 5A CIF championship So Cal. I doubt that he would have a problem left foot braking!

CDepp · 02-19-2013, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Hotrodz

I not saying its totally the same, but the whole deal is about coordination and control. The design or placement of the pedal are done because most people are right handed and have little or no coordination with their left hand or foot. It all goes back to left handed equals sinister or wrong! However, if you grow up knowing only how to left foot brake you would not know that it was "wrong."

So if you can't dribble a basket ball with your left hand, switch hit or are otherwise ambidextrous it probably not a smart move. I played college baseball with a guy that pitched both games in double header, one right handed and the other left and won both of them to get his team to the 5A CIF championship So Cal. I doubt that he would have a problem left foot braking!

Well, then left foot braking is like juggling and eating with chopsticks?

Guess my beef is with the "if you can't left-foot brake, don't try toe and heeling!!!" part really.
The usage is nothing the same. Toe and heel is completely slowing the car without any acceleration going on, only rev-matching the engine for a lower gear with the clutch disengaged. As long as the clutch pedal is on the floor, there is no chance of both the car trying to go forward and stop simultaneously where left foot braking can leave a person.

JARblue · 02-22-2013, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Hotrodz

I doubt that he would have a problem left foot braking!

I can dribble and shoot a basketball quite competently considering I am right handed and generally not ambidextrous. However, I got that way with lots of practice. I have not practiced left foot braking much at all, and in my experience I am awful at it. I'm sure there are people that are just naturally ambidextrous at most activities, but I'm not talking about them. Generally speaking, being good at one ambidextrous thing does not make one good at multiple ambidextrous things.

Haboob · 02-23-2013, 01:47 AM

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Originally Posted by JARblue

I can dribble and shoot a basketball quite competently considering I am right handed and generally not ambidextrous. However, I got that way with lots of practice. I have not practiced left foot braking much at all, and in my experience I am awful at it. I'm sure there are people that are just naturally ambidextrous at most activities, but I'm not talking about them. Generally speaking, being good at one ambidextrous thing does not make one good at multiple ambidextrous things.

Take it back!

Hotrodz · 02-23-2013, 07:09 AM

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Originally Posted by JARblue

I can dribble and shoot a basketball quite competently considering I am right handed and generally not ambidextrous. However, I got that way with lots of practice. I have not practiced left foot braking much at all, and in my experience I am awful at it. I'm sure there are people that are just naturally ambidextrous at most activities, but I'm not talking about them. Generally speaking, being good at one ambidextrous thing does not make one good at multiple ambidextrous things.

I am in complete agreement with LunaZ. All I was saying is that if you have the gift of dexterity, your learning curve maybe less. That said I didn't learn to dribble a basketball or hit left handed over night. I practices my a$$ off and I hit over .300 while I was at Cal Poly Pomona. This is no different than what the auto cross driver posted earlier. He became proficient and the result are he wins events.

I'm not arguing for or against left foot braking. I'm just saying it can be done proficiently by some and for most everyone else, heed the warning statement on commercials "do not try this at home...professional driver on board."

JARblue · 02-23-2013, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Hotrodz

I am in complete agreement with LunaZ. All I was saying is that if you have the gift of dexterity, your learning curve maybe less. That said I didn't learn to dribble a basketball or hit left handed over night. I practices my a$$ off and I hit over .300 while I was at Cal Poly Pomona. This is no different than what the auto cross driver posted earlier. He became proficient and the result are he wins events.

I'm not arguing for or against left foot braking. I'm just saying it can be done proficiently by some and for most everyone else, heed the warning statement on commercials "do not try this at home...professional driver on board."

Same...

w/ LunaZ

I guess my only point was your assumption that your switch pitcher friends could left foot brake competently simply because he could pitch ambidextrously. I don't think those two are related, though I will admit, as you mentioned, good dexterity can certainly shorten the learning curve.

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