Re: Heel & Toe technique

["Graydon D. Stuckey" <graydon@apollo.gmi.edu>]

On Fri, 9 Feb 1996, Brendan Rudack wrote:

> > > 	I have always used the ball of my foot on the throttle and the heel 
> > > on the brake, from my RX7 days.  When I got into the Quattro, it took 
> > > about two days to get used to the new driving position, and the 
> > > responsiveness of the engine to blips, but it works just fine now.
> > 
> > Isnt that backwards??? Ol' Skip Barber taught me to have the heel on the 
> > throttle...
> > Bob
> >It sounds backwards to me also.  The brakes are much easier to modulate 
> with the ball of your foot than your heel.  
> Brendan Rudack 

I agree, but I also think that it is very difficult to blip the throttle
with any accuracy with the heel since is the faster motion of the two That
is why I brake with my heel, and blip with my toe.  Braking is mostly
non-motion, constant pressure, whereas blipping is a quick motion which
must be done while braking, without disturbing the braking pressure.  

	I suppose you could be ambidextrous, or opposite footed, but that
is the way I've learned to do it. 

Later,								
Graydon D. Stuckey								
graydon@apollo.gmi.edu								
Flint, Michigan   USA
'86 Audi 5000 CS Turbo Quattro, GDS Racing Stage II				
'85 Mazda RX7 GS 12A-leaning-towards-a-13B-soon