RE: [Paddlewise] Rolling With Eyes Closed?

From: Dave Kruger <kdruger_at_pacifier.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 11:15:08 -0700
Carey Parks" <cparks_at_fuse.net> wrote:

>> Interesting thread. I don't have a roll yet, so this is somewhat out of
context, but I have done a lot of work in a photographic darkroom in low/no
light situations as well as suba in varying degrees of visibility. The
interesting observation I have made in both situations is that once my eyes
begin to struggle - or probably it's my brain struggling to make sense of
what my eyes are seeing - I'm better off if I close them and remove that
sensory input from the mix. >>

Same here.  I think it has to do with competing mechanisms guiding your
arms/hands/fingers:  visual clues versus proprioception.  Here's a link to a
definition embodied in a BBC short on how dancers use it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/dancersbody/body/proprioception.shtml

Some folks have a better-developed sense of proprioception than others.  My
admittedly clumsy SO has a poor sense of it; I am the reverse.  She, of
course, has other talents way in excess of mine ... in other departments.

--
Dave Kruger
Astoria, OR

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