joe_meadmaker
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Some may have an idea what this is about. But here's the scenario. And I don't even need to use a hypothetical because it just happened in real life.
I went out on my lunch break to do a 100-Round. Nothing for a video, just a practice session. Tennis balls at 13 meters. For the first bucket of 20 balls I had 8 on target (not keeping track of dianas). The second 20 had 12 on target. The majority coming from the second set of 10. The third bucket of 20 fell off completely. Only 4 on target. I was pulling everything to the left. This continued into the fourth bucket. Everything was just off. I started to get things righted by the last 5 balls (4 of 5 on target), but my release just felt like there was no control.
I opted to quit instead of slinging the last 20. Was that a mistake? As mentioned, my release timing was completely off. When the projectile is (for the most part) going where you want, you can basically feel a bad miss. Even if you weren't able to see it, you could feel the throw was off. This is the feedback I wasn't adjusting to (or wasn't getting). A ball that missed the target by almost 2 meters to the left still felt like a good release. I decided this kind of practice was probably more likely to reinforce bad habits than result in any improvement, so I stopped.
So back to the question on topic. If you're practicing and doing badly, and not able to make adjustments to correct the problem, is it better to just end the session rather than keep throwing terribly? Save a few bruises and come back to fight another day.
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