Can someone with aspergers do this scooter maneuver I did?

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[See my third post about 10 posts down to read about the "Can an aspie with motor coordination issues do this?" situation du jour.]

You know the typical "clumsiness" that affects the ability to ride a bike or some such that's associated with aspergers? Does that mean they'd have difficulty playing a piano piece like this?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvm2ZsRv3C8[/youtube]

There's two kinds of motor clumsiness and not all people with Asperger's have both or even one of them.

And even then, it's not really the case that it might always affect things like playing a piano.

I have motor clumsiness but if I may say so I play the piano rather well, I couldn't play this, that would take decades more learning for me to learn.

theres fine motor skills and gross motor skills, playing the piano is fine, my problems are gross.

If you had asked me 20 years ago I'd have said yes...well, at eight years old I was good but not that good, but if that special interest hadn't have waned I'd have been able to play that by now. Clumsiness is one of the few aspie characteristics I don't really have, when I was younger I occasionally walked into stuff, but not sure if that was down to asperger's, an inner ear problem, or brain damage.

When I was 13, I was upto John Schaum's "C" book (Think "Mary had a little lamb" type of difficulty), and started practicing this piece with great interest and didn't stop practicing until I had it down. I had the "basic sound" down within a week, and it took many years past that to refine it to make the dynamics more 'fluid' and the playing a little more graceful. I also had no problems riding a bike. Does this mean I don't have the "gross" or "fine" motor problems associated with aspergers? If so, what kind of likelihood would that put me at for aspergers? Like, the "no motor problems" type of aspies only consist of 5% of the aspie population or something?

My fine motor skills are about average, if not better. Gross motor skills are a completely different story. I trip over myself all the time.

I have two words for you...Glenn Gould.

Glen Gould was also an aspie.

I could. I'm very clumsy and uncoordinated, but on an instrument I have almost unmatched control. :\

So, I was on a motorized two wheel standup scooter going about 12 mph and I came to an intersection with these two other 10-year old bicycle riders going in the direction perpendicular to me. One of them asked "Do you have brakes?" and which I replied, "Yeaaaahhh..." and then the kid stopped directly in front on my path. I was about to collide with him, and then braked and veered to the right and missed him by about... 3 feet and circled around him. (I then taunted him, scared him and chased him down with my super fast scooter, and then sped off after having some fun with him.)

So, could an aspie with gross physical coordination issues do that?

Uh... I play professional full-contact female football.

I was in the USMC (elite athlete on PT tests)
All star softball player in the ARMY
Ran marathons and half marathons
Ride x-country as well as a very nice street bike
Have raced motocross
Trained and rode horses in Dressage and x-country/eventing
Play classical guitar gigs for money (did my first professional performance just 1.5 years after starting)

What exactly is with this line of questioning RE motor skills?

Often one extreme lends itself to another. So if some Aspies are very bad with motor skills, then some will be excellent. I used to be pretty bad, but the more exercise I got, the better I became athletically. I've taken a few steps back because I sit around a lot, but when I was active all the time, I was quick as a cat.

People with Asperger's have their special interests, and since they are usually good with retaining information, why can't that equate to sports? Practice makes perfect.

Colliding with something you're looking at is called "target fixation", your body tries to go in the direction you're looking, even if your brain is telling you otherwise. I'm brilliant at carpentry ( fine motor control I'd guess) but useless at riding motorbikes even though they have been my special interest all my life.