Filtering

[Fatjim]

If you never push your comfort zone you never improve. It's knowing the difference between uncomfortable, and unsafe.

[marty]

I did a bit of filtering on the southern last night. Between Takanini and Manukau. Quite fast really. Someone in a ute with a motorbike on the tray pulled out in front of me about 70m ahead. Probably going about 100km/h slower than I was. Flashed headlight - he moved more right towards the barrier. I filtered nicely down the inside between him and another car. Perfectly legal! Cheers mate

[90s]

Probably going about 100km/h slower than I was.

Is this right?
So they might have been tootling along in traffic doing 30kph and you were blistering down the middle at 130kph?

[bull]

I just said don't do it unless you're confident and comfortable doing it. (... at the speed you're doing it)

The best way to build confidence is to do it again and again, just like learning to walk, there will be lots of falling over and wobbling about on your legs but after doing it again and again you will get it and the confidence will come.

[Mikkel]

If you never push your comfort zone you never improve. It's knowing the difference between uncomfortable, and unsafe.

The best way to build confidence is to do it again and again, just like learning to walk, there will be lots of falling over and wobbling about on your legs but after doing it again and again you will get it and the confidence will come.

That's all true guys. But pushing yourself further than you're comfortable with and you don't have the reserve that you need to take stuff in and learn. And you risk pushing yourself a bit too far and get a nasty scare which could temporarily impact negatively upon your confidence - or send you off to the hospital or the morgue.

I recall back when I started skiing (at the tender age of 20 mind you) I said to myself "What are you afraid of?" and threw myself down the slopes. Fortunately with skiing most of the times you stuff up you just get back up and at it. Some days I pushed the enveloped very hard - and sometimes it pushed back...

Quite a few people advocate practicing smoothness and the speed will come. If you push yourself outside the comfort zone by going hard on the throttle, hard on the brake, I doubt smoothness will come...