Smooth Braking and Turning

[Evan]

I broke myself of the jam on brake habit (the ON) by 'pumping up' the brakes before any hard braking zone.

You don't want to break yourself of that habit! Going from the throttle to initial brake in a straight line is pretty much the only time it's advantageous NOT to be smooth.

Even Randy Pobst agrees!

interesting article, but physics disagrees with Randy.
I can see the concept being true on a lightweight downforce car, where you have the most grip when you are travelling the fastest, but in a production car with no downforce (lots of lift actually) and a high cG with lots of weight transfer and you have the least amount of grip at high speed just before you press the whoa pedal. You have to ease into the brakes to let the weight transfer to the nose, load the tires and give you more grip. You are still using all the grip available to you as Randy says, but adapting your brakes for the change in grip levels that weight transfer provides.
Ive locked up brakes by going too hard too fast plenty of times.