Well done you! You've certainly put in the hours in both swimming and riding. It's splendid to hear of results.
That connection: I think this is why dancers use mirrors so much: their art depends heavily on how the result *looks* so they learn to associate *this* move and how it feels (argh, ouch, stretch) with this outcome (lovely! just hold that...).
Some people come equipped with good body awareness, where there's a reasonably good match between what they're doing and what they think they're doing.
They tend to be the 'natural' athletes, because their efforts are rewarded easily, and 'pick things up' easily.
Others are not so equipped, and have to fight for every gain! and it's an awesome feeling to find out hey, I'm actually catching up on this thing called form, or posture, or technique
I sometimes wonder what we'd look and feel like in the medieval period, when mirrors were mostly water barrels and looking glasses were rare.
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That connection: I think this is why dancers use mirrors so much: their art depends heavily on how the result *looks* so they learn to associate *this* move and how it feels (argh, ouch, stretch) with this outcome (lovely! just hold that...).
Some people come equipped with good body awareness, where there's a reasonably good match between what they're doing and what they think they're doing.
They tend to be the 'natural' athletes, because their efforts are rewarded easily, and 'pick things up' easily.
Others are not so equipped, and have to fight for every gain! and it's an awesome feeling to find out hey, I'm actually catching up on this thing called form, or posture, or technique
I sometimes wonder what we'd look and feel like in the medieval period, when mirrors were mostly water barrels and looking glasses were rare.