# Great example of unconscious understanding . .

**URL:** https://forum.troygrady.com/t/great-example-of-unconscious-understanding/61313
**Category:** Off-Topic
**Created:** [December 26, 2022, 1:13am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/great-example-of-unconscious-understanding/61313 "2022-12-26T01:13:56Z")
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### Author: ![Moje](https://forum.troygrady.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Moje](https://forum.troygrady.com/u/Moje)
#### Post date: [December 26, 2022, 1:13am UTC](https://forum.troygrady.com/t/great-example-of-unconscious-understanding/61313/1 "2022-12-26T01:13:56Z")

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So this isn’t exactly off-topic but that’s the closest category I could find. (strictly speaking this is about bicycles, but bear with me.) A couple of months ago I bought a Strat and eventually got to thinking about my long-ago fascination with Yngwie’s playing. A quick Google search led me to Troy’s article on Yngwie and my first thought was “no way is YJ doing that.” Found Episode 9 and clicked through it, thinking “there’s no way this guy can actually play that stuff.” At the 3:45 mark my jaw dropped and I echoed Mr. Grady’s sentiment, “Holy S\*\*\*!” All those hours, I just never realized my approach was never going to work.

But then I recalled this Varitasium video about bike-riding that illustrates how you can do something, even at a very high skill-level, _without knowing what you’re doing._ The explanation is at the two-minute mark, hopefully someone will get a kick out of this:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9cNmUNHSBac/maxresdefault.jpg "Most People Don't Know How Bikes Work") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cNmUNHSBac)