Very insightful! I'm looking forward to developing the skills I need to practice at home and #trainugly! I think this is what I've been missing – I've felt stuck at a very beginner level… looking forward to hopefully seeing some progression in my dance!
I'm really glad I found this again, on my 2nd time through Bootcamp. I remembered how important Random practice was from the first time, but when I went through it again I see that they also say block practice is a good way to develop technique before adding the challenge of randomizing. Great, because I just did that!
I was having trouble with my technique on the Bee drill, and felt like I couldn't get my knees to straighten on the reach because my brain was so busy responding to the random direction, and I hadn't made the reach automatic yet in every direction. So I reduced it to block drills of smaller lego pieces, and slowly practiced the reach going to each side, then after that felt automatic I worked on front and back, then diagonal. When it seemed I had myelinated these individual directions, I tried the Bee drill again, and this time it all came together. 🙂
This was quite interesting. It makes sense that random would take longer than block because the read/plan components would be new each time, and the brain would need to use more processing power as a result,
However, it also makes sense that random would yield better results outside practice, because the brain would have myelinated many different possible environmental conditions, thus creating a rapidly accessible “lookup table” of options to deal with the random scenarios that pop up outside the controlled environment of practice.
Very insightful! I'm looking forward to developing the skills I need to practice at home and #trainugly! I think this is what I've been missing – I've felt stuck at a very beginner level… looking forward to hopefully seeing some progression in my dance!
I'm really glad I found this again, on my 2nd time through Bootcamp. I remembered how important Random practice was from the first time, but when I went through it again I see that they also say block practice is a good way to develop technique before adding the challenge of randomizing. Great, because I just did that!
I was having trouble with my technique on the Bee drill, and felt like I couldn't get my knees to straighten on the reach because my brain was so busy responding to the random direction, and I hadn't made the reach automatic yet in every direction. So I reduced it to block drills of smaller lego pieces, and slowly practiced the reach going to each side, then after that felt automatic I worked on front and back, then diagonal. When it seemed I had myelinated these individual directions, I tried the Bee drill again, and this time it all came together. 🙂
This was quite interesting. It makes sense that random would take longer than block because the read/plan components would be new each time, and the brain would need to use more processing power as a result,
However, it also makes sense that random would yield better results outside practice, because the brain would have myelinated many different possible environmental conditions, thus creating a rapidly accessible “lookup table” of options to deal with the random scenarios that pop up outside the controlled environment of practice.
Random practice prepares for the performance optimally