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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
I know this is obvious, but I think it bears repeating: the higher up you go in some skill tree, the smaller the improvements become. Which leads to some interesting observations: 1) To a novice, an expert giving feedback to the merely good will seem like nitpicking.
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
2) You know how in chess and tennis, people say that great players make less mistakes than good players? This is an instance of that. 3) You should expect to have to level up to notice ever smaller details and tweaks as you progress.
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
4) Which in turn means that as you get better, refining technique can be vastly more boring than the early skill jumps of the novice-intermediate.
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
This set of observations brought to you by my being consistently humbled in the judo dojo. This competition coach I talk to notices some of the smallest, most trivial things that — when taken seriously — turns out to have a big impact on the technique working.
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Cedric Chin
@ejames_c
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@ihodes
Things like “yeah you need to turn your wrist a wee bit more here” (in the tiny window of a few seconds between say two steps in a technique) and then suddenly the throw feels completely different.
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