Hand / Eye Coordination

[Ian 777]

Don't know if this is the right place to post this but:

I have Been Flying Helicopters for just over 2 months and have noticed a tremendous benifit to my overall coordination.

I have always struggled with physical and mental coordination, not to a crippling degree but enough to blight my school life and make getting good at anything a struggle

It is as if neural reflexes are wrongly rooted or synaptic conections just defocused.

I play the guitar and the struggle to make my hands do what my brain tells them is immense.

Also to make matters worse I am left handed and am learning to fly Mode 2 so my right hand has to do the cyclic control.

This is forcing me to 'think' with my right hand when flying.

The amazing thing is that I seem to be able to learn and progress reasonably well
I know some people can tie them in knots after 2 months but I think I'm picking it up as well as many people.

The other amazing thing is that as a direct result (I feel) of learning to fly my Belt all kind of other coordinational difficulties are becoming less pronounced, things that have caused
serious difficulty in the past are easier.:)

Has anyone else had any similar experience? When I used to fly fixed wing (mode 1) I never really noticed the same improvement

Happy landings Ian

[helihathnofury]

If you think about it, it is bound to have some sort of physical/mental benefit, and I guess I speak for all of us mates on this forum in congratulating you on your discovery of greater coordination ability. Fantastic!!! I was one of the lucky ones born with hand eye-coordination [enough to pass the very stringent RAF pilot tests] and have also generally been good at most sports [BTW, not bragging here]. My mate said to me that he expected me to fing flying model copters easy cos I was a pro pilot, but I countered saying that I didn't think that it would be of much benefit, and that i would have to just fly the beast, and stop thinking like a pilot!!! If you get what I mean. Of course it helps understanding the dynamics of flight, and I have a degree in the subject too, and my 3rd year project specialized in copters [a long time ago!!!] But yes, just like computer games, thered is almost certain to be co-ordination benefits from doing this.

Cheers,
Mike

[Ian 777]

Thanks Mike

Hope your hand heals fast buddy.

I did hear some where of a program designed to help people with Dyslexia and ADHD type problems. Apparently it consists of daily exercises to retrain the sense of balance.
This effectivley rewires the bran so that messages which get lost in transit arrive at the correct neural destination.

Apparently It costs about £1000 per year to enrol. Perhaps learning to fly helicopters is doing something similar to my brain:banana
Anyway i'm goin to use that argument on my wife to justify funding for my heli hobby :lol:

'Just one little Trex 600 dear and I'll almost be like a normal person':rolling

Keep on truckin

[helihathnofury]

You'll probably spend that amount if you keep buying pEsky spares anyway!!!!!!!!

[wibble]

I'll tell you one thing Ian, I've never even been able to hit even a shuttlecock (hand/eye coordination) and I sure as hell'll never be able to play a guitar :bawl , oops that's two things!

I'll tell you 3 things Ian, I'm jealous as hell when I saw you in your hanger following that little chopper round and doing the "steering wheel thing" :YeaBaby: with the Tx, I dance to mine!! :DOHYou're doing incredibly well mate!

Talking of brain remapping and stuff, I'll tell you a story about NLP, Neuro Linguistic Programming when I've got a little bit more time. Remind me please one day.

[helihathnofury]

Got to keep this on-topic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh sorry. Wrong forum!!!!!!!

[Ian 777]

Mike stoppit man ur makin us paranoid:confused: :)

Thanks for the encouragement Martin, With me the hand to eye dificulties are part of a real time proscessing problem which really does seem to be helped by learning to fly my heli.

With the guitar I have to spend about an hour 'calibrating' my hand to the instrument before I can play much Forcing my brain to make the neccesary connections, grip the plectrum, keep the wrist loose, don't raise the fingers more than 10mm from the strings playing scales etc.etc. and then next time I play I have to do it all again. If I could make the right connections by effort I would be really good by now.

But with the Heli sure I have to concentrate, but there's no manic banging my fist into the wall to get results :)

Any way thats quite enough Introspective self indulgence from me

All the best Ian

[DierWolf]

Plus thats concidered spamming :) And the mods here dont like it :) be original :)

[psilo]

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Oh dear, I think this heat has fuddled my brain.

[wibble]

I'd like a little cheese with mine please :lol:

btw Psilo, errm, Amsterdam wouldn't have had anything to do with the brain fuddling by any chance? :rolling........................ would it?

[psilo]

Yeah I guess the :smokin: could have done it :P

[Ian 777]

To quote the late great doctor Tim at the gathering of the daily miracle

"Ever since the sun took LSD..... its been a fundamentaly better sun.......

more PINK and GREEN and ELECTRIC BLUE........................

So lets hope it comes up again today...........

It's coming up...It's coming up.. Its coming up.....

AAWWW it's PINK again.

It's a fair point Psilo it sure didn't help. But I realy struggled at school from the age of 5. so that's not all of it. Also my oldest son has the same sort of difficulty.

[wibble]

:noteworthy

I just happened to be listening to Tom Waits singing "Somewhere" when I saw that post Ian, the effect was quite astonishing :roll: