Jason N wrote:
FuzzyRunner wrote:
he does mention it and tries riding a normal bike....he can ride it fine.
Yeah, but I wouldn't really say he mastered riding the reverse steering bike. Show me a video of him riding at 15 mph then sweeping through a downhill S curve without eating it...then hopping back on a regular bike. To me, all he proved was that he could balance on the reverse steering bike in a straight line.
It's not to say that he couldn't ride a regular bike after if he did so...but you take any 6 year old that learns first takes the training wheels off their bike and they can ride it far better than this guy was riding his reverse steering bike.
Did you see the closing shots of the video? The last few seconds show him riding pretty well in an open field. I would put those last few seconds well above a 6 y.o. post-training wheels.
I know there are lots of studies (going back decades) regarding these types of visual-motor skills and reversals...so called prism studies, that look at various aspects of learning, unlearning, and relearning with reversed, transposed, and inverted vision. This seems very similar.