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"He says it's like riding a bike. When you start falling on one side, your natural instinct is to turn in the other direction."

No it isn't. Not at all. My natural instinct is to steer in the direction of the fall. I can't imagine this even being remotely true for anyone else, either.

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I very distinctly remember my first instinct when learning how to ride a bike was to turn opposite of the fall. The same could be said for when I first learned how to drive on snow. It only takes a couple bad falls before your instinct changes with bikes and cars, but I don't think people make that realization with burn out.

I think it was initially a bad analogy; he probably meant something along the lines of noticing you're about to fall off a ledge of sorts. In that situation, you would stick out a limb to keep your center of gravity on solid ground, not lean further away :)

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