User talk:Dat boi/Draft:Penspinning Drills

Adding some commentary. As I don't have too much time I'm going to be blunt about areas where I think there are glaring issues.

Introduction

This article is based on the assumption that if one learns a skill and repeats that skill, it will become more natural

There is evidence to believe that repetition improves motor control and this leads into the idea of 'muscle memory' rewiring pathways in the brain.

If he stops using that skill, it will worsen.

This is not quite the case, for instance riding a bicycle is a skill that is difficult to originally learn, but once learnt even spending decades without riding one will not make you lose the ability to ride a bike. If there is strong decay in muscle memory, it is limited.

As with any motor related skillset, repetition and practice are the most important factors

According to whom?

With penspinning, technique derivation and refinement derivation come into play as well

The what now?

Those are however outside the scope of this article

Oh

In practically all object manipulation focused disciplines (circus/flow arts) regular drills are a very important part of training. Seeing as penspinning is based around object manipulation, drilling is important for penspinning as well.

What do you mean by drill, are you using this to mean all practice? Are you aware that within the meaning of 'performing an exercise' it carries the military connotation that implies it is more serious and dedicated than just practice? Perhaps you should define the difference between practice/drill.

What is the point of drilling?

The first goal is to increase consistency by drilling the intended motion into muscle memory until it becomes second nature.

Practice making muscle memory is a pretty widely known fact.

The second goal is to maintain that naturalness

What do you mean by naturalness? There's nothing natural about performing pen spinning tricks to act about, are you using this as a stand-in for execution? Why use different terminology from existing pen spinning literature without explaining what it is you mean by it?

First, the motion is repeated, then the repetition is repeated

And is the repetition of the repeated motion also repeated recursively further? Surely saying 'repetition' is self explanatory.

Once one has learned to repeat the motion easily, the second part is to maintain this motion

Do you mean execution? Again, it's difficult to understand what you mean when you won't use terminology everyone else uses.

Since the second part takes significantly less time, it is possible to create a routine of drills. For ease of understanding, we will refer to learning to repeat the motion as 'first stage' and repeating the repetition as 'second stage'.

By this point I'm beginning to think you mean 'replicate' the motion, as in you're learning a new trick from scratch, and then want to improve the execution of it, through refinement, after.

Regularity is key with drilling, ideally they should be done daily

Says who? According to what should they be done ideally daily, why not every other day, hourly, weekly, before eating cereal?

because through daily repetition muscle memory related to that drill is maintained constantly

This is mostly circular reasoning.

Because of their naturalness, doing the drilled motion in second stage requires practically no concentration.

So you do mean refinement and execution? It might be important to note that not everyone agrees that improving refinement requires 'no execution'.

What should be drilled?

Now that we have formed the base

Not at all, I fear the rest of this section is going to be jumping far ahead.

With drilling the first thing that comes to mind is consistency. There are other however other aspects that can be drilled, such as speed and technique (refinement/finger positioning).

Practicing different areas is not exactly new, or poorly understood.

What kind of drill would be the most useful depends on the level of the spinner. Generally, however the more fundamental the trick, the more useful it would be to drill it as it will translate into the other tricks and linkages. For beginning spinners, once they have learned the basics and their reverses, those should be drilled for consistency first

Who says that beginners should work on refinement first after learning fundamentals and reverses?

Once they take to practice a new trick or linkage, doing those drills might make a good warm-up routine.

Is this just opinion?

For advanced spinners who want to learn certain power tricks for example, the drills should be the basics of powertricks, such as different spreads, palmspins, hai tuas etc. One should first practice the basics of the desired trick, and then regularly repeat them. They should be repeated even once the trick has been learned, so as to maintain them.

Like riding a bicycle, it's pretty hard to forget how to do multiple Hai Tua, I hadn't done them for nearly half a decade and had no issue doing it once more when picking up a mod again. The implication of all of this maintenance talk is that it's a much bigger deal than it really is.

Generally, what trick exactly should be drilled and in what way depends on the goal of the spinner. The desired trick or link should be broken down into the smallest parts and those parts should be drilled systematically in order to gain consistency.

Who told you that grinding constituent parts was better? Why do you assume it is?

Having the (complex) trick or link in mind that one wishes to achieve, one should break down the trick into the smallest parts and drill it until it becomes second nature. From there on, one may combine two of the drilled tricks together and repeat them again and so forth.

Why do we need a paragraph to say "You should practice constituent parts of linkages", this article repeats the same meanings again and again without adding new information or evidence.

The goal of practicing the fundamentals as systematically as possible is to increase the speed of skill acquisition and to have a clear road from A to B.

If the clear road from A to B is getting from no skill to having acquired the skill then this sentence is 'The goal of A is B and also B'.

Combining Drills

If one wants to for example improve finger positioning of the index bust but also to increase it's speed, one should first get to second stage consistency of it and then drill the finger position regularly until it becomes natural.

You want to improve finger positioning once you have already refined multiple bust?! Have you ever tried changing your technique after mastering it to high cont. level, why would you assume that you would want to fix your finger positioning after a different finger position has already been put into muscle memory?

After naturalness of both drills has become achieved, one can combine them as one motion. Then, once the combined drill has become natural, one can bring speed drilling to naturalness and combine it too. That way, all three drills will become one.

See above, I'm not convinced that this will not just make it harder, and you've provided no proof that it would make it easier.

Of course this is only a theory and should not be seen as a required way to practice. It’s just my attempt at increasing practice efficiency in general. I invite anyone that disagrees with this article to share their disagreement, so that new knowledge may be gained.

But your theory is a theory on how to practice, so in a way you do want people to use it as a way to practice.

Conclusions

I get the feeling from a decent amount of your writing that you want to write a lot of stuff rather than articulate your meaning efficiently. Pretty much all of the article could be summarized into 1-2 paragraphs, and the amount of assumptions and logical leaps is just way too high.

--V 0 1 D (talk) 13:52, 16 April 2021 (UTC)