[RKDinOKC]

Kinda on that same theme...

Watch Legendary Motorcars this past weekend. As a treat, Pete took everyone to the Bondurant Driving School in AZ. Two of the shop hands were complete novices so they showed the Bondurant instructor giving heel and toe instructions.

He told them to brake with the right heel off the floor so you could lean the bottom of the foot over the blip the gas.

In every driving book I've read, INCLUDING the one written by Bob Bondurant says to keep your right heel planted when braking so you use the smaller more accurate calf muscles to regulate threshold braking instead of the big sloppy thigh muscle. AND in all the videos where they show rally drivers braking left footed and blipping the throttle the right heel stays planted. My old driving shoes even have a hole worn in the middle of the ball of the right shoe from rocking it on the edge of the brake pedal.

The caught my attention because I have not been able to successfully heel and toe downshift under braking since my foot ordeal. They removed the toe next to my little toe and connected the ligaments to the middle toe, then cut the ligaments and took out the knuckle of my little toe. My foot feels and acts like there is no right side of my foot to blip the throttle with. When I try to heel and toe downshift a few time just driving around town it makes the knuckle of the toe next to my little toe hurt for 2 or 3 days.