How do you do this?

[JoeP]

Michael, at the risk of getting all Buddhist on your ass, I'm passing along guidance I received from an Instructor a few years ago.

He said not to look at anything while on Track.  He said to look at EVERYTHING.  The best pilots/racers do not move their eyes ten times faster than we mortals.  They train themselves to absorb everything at once and "feel" the entire situation that surrounds them.  It is next level after lifting your eyes to look further down track.  In my experience, this also requires me to empty my thoughts like Buddhist meditation or something.  My brain can't think "down track" if the little voice in my head is saying, "Don't miss the apex cone."  (I think I've succeeded for about 30 seconds in five years of DE events.)  The Instructor sent me to the following website to illustrate his point:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~pontipak/redsquare.html

You cannot do well if you focus on the red square.  You need to empty your brain and look at the entire screen at the same time.

It seems that the old Atari game, "Missile Command", would be perfect for Winter DE training.  It was impossible to do well if you focused on one missile.  You needed to play the entire screen at the same time.  That being said, does anyone know of a bar that still has "Missile Command"?  It might be time for an RTR Winter DE training session.