Thrower's Block

[thefluteninja]

@Hendy

I finally finished every trick for my contest routine and I think I’m coming down with a bad case of this (new material every day can be a little exhausting). Let’s see if failing at 5A for a couple hours will get the juices flowing…

That is exactly what I do. I go get my DMII and fail at 5a until I feel better and then go back to 1a.

[abby1371]

yep the throwers block sounds like me right now i cant learn any new tricks cause its all too hard right now. And I can’t create any new ones because i’m too busy. So yeah.

[elBueno]

I’ve had it for the last two years… so much on my plate and I never feel like studying tutorials for inspiration.

[IdleHands]

@Jake Elliott

Whenever I get throwers block, I just take a trick that I’m well practiced in, go about halfway though, and then trying something crazy, even if I think it won’t work.

If I don’t come up with anything new to practice, I keep on trying crazy stuff.

This method has never failed me.

hasn’t failed me either brother

[Pinkie_Pie]

@Jake Elliott

Whenever I get throwers block, I just take a trick that I’m well practiced in, go about halfway though, and then trying something crazy, even if I think it won’t work.

If I don’t come up with anything new to practice, I keep on trying crazy stuff.

This method has never failed me.

I need to try this

[WretchedRapture]

This holds true for my own experience climbing and such and with yoyo’s.  It’s called the ‘reminiscence’ effect and is the brains’ reorganizing of neural command loops and the closing of useless ones during your inactive period which actually leads to an increase in skill instead of a loss in them. 
Performance Rock Climbing - Dale Goddard, Udo Neumann - Google Books

This is absolutely fantastic information! Thanks a lot for sharing this, man! I’ve had this experience with plenty of hobbies, especially more physical activities like skateboarding. I’ve always thought it was just my imagination or some placebo effect, but this is a great theory. Our brains are basically defragging themselves like a computer hard drive—Or our computers are defragging like our brains. Either way you put it, that’s sweet.  :)