Re: reaction time practice???
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Top bulb or bottom bulb racer?
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Re: reaction time practice???
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#1715342
12/25/14 05:40 AM
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Practice, practice, practice. Get into a routine so you don't even have to think about what you are doing while staging, bringing the rpm's up, etc. YOU get consistent regardless of the actual RT's. Then make changes to the car to adjust the RT's as needed, not yourself. (i.e.: tire diameter, air pressure, staging rpm's, etc.) A person is normally not able to change his/her reactions consistently. Do it mechanically.
Lot's of variable in your car will affect how much you can mechanically adjust/change - converter, condition of the brakes, carb set up (ESPECIALLY if footbraking), traction, firmness/slop in the chassis/suspension, etc.
Rollout does vary from track-to-track and can from lane-to-lane. Your reactions can vary from day-to-day or even within a day. How much sleep did you get? What's on your mind? Did you drink a lot of caffeinated/sugared coffee, Mountain Dew, etc.? Are you hungry?
Your results may vary. Each person is different just like each vehicle can be different. Some people and some vehicles just aren't easily adapted to cut good, consistent reaction times. But try to get YOUR consistency down first. Narrow down your "range", then work on getting that range closer to .000 on the "green" side.
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Re: reaction time practice???
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12/25/14 08:32 AM
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take Quote:
Practice, practice, practice. Get into a routine so you don't even have to think about what you are doing while staging, bringing the rpm's up, etc. YOU get consistent regardless of the actual RT's. Then make changes to the car to adjust the RT's as needed, not yourself. (i.e.: tire diameter, air pressure, staging rpm's, etc.) A person is normally not able to change his/her reactions consistently. Do it mechanically.
Lot's of variable in your car will affect how much you can mechanically adjust/change - converter, condition of the brakes, carb set up (ESPECIALLY if footbraking), traction, firmness/slop in the chassis/suspension, etc.
Rollout does vary from track-to-track and can from lane-to-lane. Your reactions can vary from day-to-day or even within a day. How much sleep did you get? What's on your mind? Did you drink a lot of caffeinated/sugared coffee, Mountain Dew, etc.? Are you hungry?
Your results may vary. Each person is different just like each vehicle can be different. Some people and some vehicles just aren't easily adapted to cut good, consistent reaction times. But try to get YOUR consistency down first. Narrow down your "range", then work on getting that range closer to .000 on the "green" side.
take this guys advice he's pretty dang good. almost as good the tree
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Re: reaction time practice???
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12/25/14 10:45 AM
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Practicing in the car, going through your entire sequence from burnout to launch is important to keeping your mind focused for the race. If you can wire the switch in the car to run the practice tree then you have it all. A mindset of not letting anything other than your bulb into your thinking is key. Any odd thoughts and the reaction time is toast.
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Re: reaction time practice???
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12/25/14 11:16 AM
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Practice, practice, practice. Get into a routine so you don't even have to think about what you are doing while staging, bringing the rpm's up, etc. YOU get consistent regardless of the actual RT's. Then make changes to the car to adjust the RT's as needed, not yourself. (i.e.: tire diameter, air pressure, staging rpm's, etc.) A person is normally not able to change his/her reactions consistently. Do it mechanically.
Lot's of variable in your car will affect how much you can mechanically adjust/change - converter, condition of the brakes, carb set up (ESPECIALLY if footbraking), traction, firmness/slop in the chassis/suspension, etc.
Rollout does vary from track-to-track and can from lane-to-lane. Your reactions can vary from day-to-day or even within a day. How much sleep did you get? What's on your mind? Did you drink a lot of caffeinated/sugared coffee, Mountain Dew, etc.? Are you hungry?
Your results may vary. Each person is different just like each vehicle can be different. Some people and some vehicles just aren't easily adapted to cut good, consistent reaction times. But try to get YOUR consistency down first. Narrow down your "range", then work on getting that range closer to .000 on the "green" side.
take this guys advice he's pretty dang good. almost as good the tree
-and practice during your down time.
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Re: reaction time practice???
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12/25/14 09:49 PM
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Practice, practice, practice. Get into a routine so you don't even have to think about what you are doing while staging, bringing the rpm's up, etc. YOU get consistent regardless of the actual RT's. Then make changes to the car to adjust the RT's as needed, not yourself. (i.e.: tire diameter, air pressure, staging rpm's, etc.) A person is normally not able to change his/her reactions consistently. Do it mechanically.
Lot's of variable in your car will affect how much you can mechanically adjust/change - converter, condition of the brakes, carb set up (ESPECIALLY if footbraking), traction, firmness/slop in the chassis/suspension, etc.
Rollout does vary from track-to-track and can from lane-to-lane. Your reactions can vary from day-to-day or even within a day. How much sleep did you get? What's on your mind? Did you drink a lot of caffeinated/sugared coffee, Mountain Dew, etc.? Are you hungry?
Your results may vary. Each person is different just like each vehicle can be different. Some people and some vehicles just aren't easily adapted to cut good, consistent reaction times. But try to get YOUR consistency down first. Narrow down your "range", then work on getting that range closer to .000 on the "green" side.
take this guys advice he's pretty dang good. almost as good the tree
-and practice during your down time.
That's the unit I have. (with a foot pedal) I noticed I have to see the yellow and think(click) before I go bang(hit the pedal).
Yeah, it's got a smallblock.
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Re: reaction time practice???
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12/26/14 03:58 PM
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Practice!!! You need to shoot for a small window and work form there. What I am referring to is trying to get your reaction times to fall in a small grouping, say a few thousands on a regular basis. That is what you are shooting for with a practice tree.
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Re: reaction time practice???
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12/31/14 06:16 PM
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I've been working on this over the holidays since I'm off work.
The stats show I'm not doing too good, but I'll use the excuse that I'm trying hard to find/fix bugs, not to cut a good light.
I'm in process of adding top-bulb play capability, and it's already got adjustable dial-ins with staggered timing and adjustable roll-out.
It currently only runs on a PC/laptop but I really should go ahead and port it to a phone/tablet.
Last edited by booger; 12/31/14 06:20 PM.
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Re: reaction time practice???
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12/31/14 06:29 PM
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Practice!!! You need to shoot for a small window and work form there. What I am referring to is trying to get your reaction times to fall in a small grouping, say a few thousands on a regular basis. That is what you are shooting for with a practice tree.
I am trying this and it seems to be working. Birdtracker
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Re: reaction time practice???
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12/31/14 06:45 PM
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On my tree/box I needed to set in my cars reaction time to add that in to get a good reaction... that took a bit to get figured out between reading the directions and the car.. my car reacts VERY quickly so when I was no box I could get a good idea on the tree.. but I still had to change the car around so it would be green
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Re: reaction time practice???
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#1715359
12/31/14 07:40 PM
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is that something you found on the web? I have been practicing now for a few weeks and my times have improved. Plan on staying with it even after the season starts. Birdtracker
I wrote it in C#, runs in Windows.
Doing it on a non-real time OS has limitations but I try to work around them as much as possible.
BTW, top bulbing is now working but the graphics don't simulate the delay yet. As it is the green/red comes on immediately instead of waiting the delay. But the math is in place and works.
Last edited by booger; 12/31/14 07:43 PM.
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Re: reaction time practice???
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01/03/15 02:27 PM
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FWIW, it's coming along.
It's got the sim adjusted to be late so I pretty much always win unless I redlight. Handy for testing, good for adapting to different machine capabilities. Also lets you adjust "the competition" as you improve.
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Re: reaction time practice???
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01/03/15 08:43 PM
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Does anyone use the Jegs practice for android phones? It seems to be pretty good just curious if anyone else has tried it.
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