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Ido Portal: The Science & Practice of Movement

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Do You Do Visualization or Mental Rehearsal of Physical Movement?

I'm glad you mentioned running scenarios in your head. I've been curious all day as to whether or not you do visualization or mental rehearsal of physical movement. This is, it seems to be a popular idea in the states. People are always asking me, can you just imagine a movement and learn it better than were you to actually perform it? My hunch, basedand my understanding the scientific literature, is that visualization can be useful to some extent for people that are very good at visualization. But for many people, it doesn't help,. There's nothing real physical practice, to improved physical practice. Yet the word visualization is not good, obviously. It has to be experiential

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