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Originally Posted by jkv45
In a "panic" stop don't worry about downshifting - just concentrate on braking. And don't refer to it as a "panic" stop - an "emergency" stop is better.
If you "panic" you lose hope of having a good outcome, and picture a bad one. That heads you down the path of either "freezing" or target-fixating.
Always give yourself instructions in terms of a positive ("avoid the pothole") and never in terms of a negative ("don't hit the pothole").
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You should practice in a emergency stop to pull in the clutch and stomp down on the shifter to 1st gear and braking at the same time because sometimes when you are at a near stop you need to go again to move again to get out of the way of another car/obstacle that isn't expecting you to be there.