So I was freestyling and I got into some bad magic and lost my ability to tell whether my left arm pink should be involved in the trick or not. Now I’m all chained up and feel like I have to go back and study the left arm pinky in every trick I know to make sure I’m doing the trick right before I can continue with any more trick making/comboing…
Really frustrating, I’m thinking I’ll give it a break and hope it magically comes back on its own.
Anybody have frustrating finger work? Or tricks you can do that suddenly become mysteriously removed from you head?
Looping. I was able to do 20-25 one-handed loops most of the time and then I just lost it. I have not worked seriously on looping since because I could get good again just to lose “it”.
thinking about any yoyo trick for to long leads to mental chaos, since most of it is muscle memory you just have to keep doing it until you hit something that feels right!
I had this happen to me with Boingy Boing. Developing the rythm feel to do this trick was very difficult for me. I eventually could do Boingy Boing and then one day when I tried to do this trick it was gone from my brain. I was so frustrated! After several weeks I learned this trick again and now I do it everyday.
I’ve always heard people call it “memory muscle.” Strange-sounding but I just took it as the more you do something, your memory of how do it gets stronger but I guess with some things there’s a little something-something that can elude us even after lots of successful practice and like someone else wrote, over-thinking can be bad and in my case with looping that I mentioned above, I think I never relaxed enough and stress / anxiety was my enemy.
I’m also a cuber and 95% of it is simply muscle memory. Whenever I think about an algorithm I can not do it. Same with yoyos muscle memory doesn’t literally mean your muscles have memory to me it means that you are able to do a fine motor task such as yoyoing without even thinking due to the amount of practice and repetition that you have done. It’s like walking you dont have to think about it, it just feels natural because it is engrained in your brain.
I feel like that guy in Robo Cop (new) who can’t paly the guitar right with his computer hands unless he plays without emotion (which in turn makes it not worth it to play)
