[Yakaru]

Originally Posted by Kowalski

He is comparing It to what you’ve been taught. What he teaches is that both ways are fine but he prefers being close to the tank and it works fine. It comes down to what works for you. I like a lot of contact between my outside thigh and tank. I even put about 1” Thick pad on the back of my tank so there more contact between my thigh and the tank. That’s where most of my support comes from. I’m the opposite of you. This technique lets me get off the bike more and feel so locked in that I can drop my inside shoulder and get very low.

The entire reasoning for selecting the amount off the tank is maximum contact, so if that's where you get the most then that's the same technique. There are a few bikes where that's true for me, but not many.