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reactordevlast Thursday at 1:01 AM2 repliesview on HN

As my guitar teacher used to say, “Slow is fast”. Mastering the techniques slowly and increasing speed until you’re “at speed” is the way to go.

Like riding a bike, you start slow with training wheels (or a helicopter parent) and work your way up to Yolo no-hander off that kicker ramp at 40 kph.


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pavement_sortlast Thursday at 5:42 PM

Ironically, training wheels are actually a bad way to teach a kid how to ride a bike. They teach kids bad habits (like turning the handlebars to steer rather than leaning).

Balance bikes are a better first step and are actually really fun compared to training wheels.

taericlast Thursday at 1:10 AM

Shame you can't do this with something like juggling. :D

I suppose you can somewhat metaphorically replace speed with numbers there. In that juggling four balls is a lot like three, but faster. Getting the initial three going, though... Grrr.

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