Without regularly practicing spontaneous adaptation to the environment, your ability to improvise movement will likely be choppy, sloppy, or inefficient. The 10-second drill is a great exercise to regularly train and test your ability to find this “zone.” Many parkour athletes spend all their time training single movements and pre-planned combinations of techniques. Through thousands of repetitions of a skill in hundreds of different scenarios, an experienced athlete will be able to recall a skill with a split second notice and more easily adapt it to any situation. From race car drivers and fighter pilots to musicians and football players, this level of proficiency is pursued by many but truly mastered by few. The concept of a “flow state” or “the zone” is a mindset in which a practitioner experiences extraordinary levels of performance that are described as thoughtless or instinctive.
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