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caution; rant to follow proprioception is always “On”, it allows your brain to know where your body parts are, what they are doing in relation to both gravity and the environment. when you smoke a joint while thinking deep thoughts, it lets you target both your mouth and ashtray without looking or consciously thinking about the actions, among other functions. Many schools of rehabilitation, one technique related to your question is to increase the weight of a spoon for instance to increase awareness and improve targeting say to mouth or plate, w mixed results in my experience.
What I think your question is a really asking is about are perceptual-motor strategies for practice and functioning.
To me, it’s easiest explained via white meat and dark meat functions even though humans are more grey meat like pigs, but the concept is easy to visualize next time you cut up a bird.
Dark meat aka slow twitch is aerobic (fat or latic acid burner), slow to fatigue, primarily moves one joint, low ratio of nerve to muscle fibers, controlled mainly by the cerebellum and some would say a smart spinal cord. Provides core movements likely via reflexive, learned as learned generalized scripts. Throwing a pebble, egg, baseball or bowling ball may look the same but would require sig different scripts. White meat aka fast twitch muscles are anaerobic (sugar burners), quick to fatigue, cross/move multiple joints, have a high ratio of nerves to muscle fibers, also use scripts but in addition to applying gross force, also provide endpoint control or “English” to an action., and is controlled by the cerebral cortex. To visualize them in action watch practiced and unpracticed rock throwers chuck a few rocks or better yet skip rocks across water or pretend to... Unpracticed rock throwers will typically just pick up different rocks and throw them, possibly w some success or improvement. Practiced throwers will not only carefully select their rocks, but prior to throwing them will jiggle/settle/reposition the rock carefully in their hand prior to throwing, especially if try to skip them. This feeling of the rock is your cerebral cortex using experience to analyze the flight characteristics of that particular rock compared to previously thrown rocks what english will be needed for spin or whatever concurrently w distance needed, target movement,... When you first learn to do an activity such as writing, its initially very cortical (cerebral cortex) in that it takes all your attention to shape the letters, with practice as scripts are developed the process becomes subcortical (cerebellum and spinal cord), and you can takes notes in class while hopefully following the teacher, checking out other students and day dreaming simultaneously. You only need to focus (cortex directed) on writting when it has to be neat or size matters form gives you 1/2” for your name and you need 1”.
This is one reason that developing good technique or basic motor scripts is so important, you can compensate for bad basic techniques but it will require increased attention (brain fatigue) as well strain/fatigue the fast twitch muscles that are working to compensate.
One trick you can try when learning a new technique is to use a rubber band to keep the pouch closed, while can practice different twirls and vector changes. Careful w this as jit converts a sling to a long sap which can really f you up.
hope this is helpful, i obviously have way too much time on my hands now.
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