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What’s the difference between deep staging and shallow staging and the advantages of each?
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Deep staging is rolling into the beams more so you get out of them beams quicker. The advantage of this is may be to help your reaction time, but be careful, this will also slow down your ET’s. Your bike doesn’t get that small head start before you break the beams and believe me it makes a difference! Shallow staging will slow your reaction times because the bike has to move further to get out of beams and for that same reason it will pick up your ET’s because you get that little bit of a jump on the timing system!
Deep staging is usually used on pro tree and shallow is usually used on full tree.
Hope this helps, be safe! |
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