Mersa wrote on Jan 17
th, 2020 at 2:24am:
If you put conscious thought into your throw, it will screw up the totality of the movement, your conscious thought needs to be in target focus.
This is a very good description of my own experience with slinging. For a long time I thought that good and accurate slinging was the result of performing a specific technique down to minute detail. So I would try and memorize and write down every single little, tiny step in a specific technique and replicate those steps when I was slinging.
That, of course, went terrible so the worse I got, the more I tried to correct it by overanalysing my throws which in turn made them worse. It was a downwards spiral and I was close to quitting slinging.
Then I, somehow (I don't remember how I did), realized that I had to "feel" my throws, that is, I had to measure the quality of my throws by an intuitive feeling and BAM, I was instantly getting better results.