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Hey guys,

If you're like me you probably find yourself visualizing the latest move you're working on every hour of the waking day - more or less. So check this out, cuz I only just noticed this today.

The problem I've always had when visualizing the move in first person is that it's like my mind/body demands that I act out the move while visualizing it from the first person. Basically I find it impossible to not act out the move as I'm visualizing it. That makes things kinda difficult when I'm taking a shower, or going to bed, or on the train, or whatever.

For some reason, today by accident I started to visualize the move in my head from a third person perspective in a kind of isomorphic 3/4 view perspective. And I noticed that from this perspective I could actually visualize the move all the way through without feeling the need to act it out.

So I'm wondering - did any of you know this before? I sure didn't. Don't know why it never occurred to me to try it before. I've never read anything that points this trick out. I don't think it would be useful to only use 3rd person, but it seems it could work in conjunction with the 1st person method.

Thoughts?

I visualized myself kiting today in the third person while standing at my desk. It was depressing, so I've stopped visualizing my kiteboarding tricks altogether

BayAreaKite wrote:I visualized myself kiting today in the third person while standing at my desk. It was depressing, so I've stopped visualizing my kiteboarding tricks altogether

This is why I kept my low paying job and never advanced in my career so that I can kite almost every day that the wind blows at 3rd. :-)

I frequently use visualization but in a slightly different way. I will switch back and forth between imagining the move in my head from a first person perspective and what it might look like in a third person perspective. Usually it's replaying a particular wave or some particularly fun carve, whether kiting, surfing or snowboarding.

What's different about it for me is that it seldom fails to put me into a Zen state, and I almost always fall asleep within a few minutes. Really helpful for long plane rides or when you have to catch a few z's quickly.

I don't have an issue with my body moving around while I'm doing this, which is probably a good thing for my wife and fellow passengers on planes. It's totally in my head.

I believe this is different if you're trying to figure out a particular move that you don't have wired yet, in which case you probably have to move to get brain/muscle memory in snyc. But in either case, I'm convinced this routine helps one arrive at your body going on full auto pilot when you are in critical phases of whatever sport you might be doing. Particularly in surfing, that mind/body disconnect in which you are forced to react and dance without having time to think is the addicting reward that keeps us coming back for more. Zen state but full awareness.

I like it.

And no, I don't have any problems with narcolepsy while surfing in Zen state.

According to research I've read back in my rock climbing times, you do not have to move to fire neurons that responsible for muscle movement, so it is always beneficial to visualize to improve, but afair you should visualize a lot of things in order to work it out, such as chop, wind blowing and so on. Not sure 3rd person view is good approach, besides the times when you need to connect some parts - like in tack, if you can throw board upwind, move kite smoothly and change feet, but just need to connect all parts together.

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