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It is a powerful feeling to sense an acceleration out of every corner just by positioning your body correctly.

Imagine you are riding a bicycle at a decent speed. You come to a left turn. What do you do to take the corner? Do you turn handlebars bars to the left?

The answer is No. You lean the bike to the left and countersteer the handlebars to the right.

You don’t turn the handlebars to the left going into the corner. As you come out of the corner though, you may make a small correction to your trajectory by turning the handlebars slightly. But to get through the corner, you lean and countersteer.

When you run a turn, your hips are the bike, and your shoulders and sternum are the handlebars.

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