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What I like doing (brace yourselves) is nurturing the inner zombie. I'll elaborate...
When training, I concentrate, very intensely, on form. I try to be as phsyiologically and psychologically self-aware as possible, sometimes focusing on individual joints or muscles or movements or mental processes, other times on combinations of these, and sometimes holistically. It's all a part of building a neuromuscular scaffold.
But in competition, I let go, relying on automatisation - the unshackled ability of the unconscious mind and unhindered muscle memory.
Well, that's how it goes on a good day. If I'm in a bad mood I can undo months of scientific training with the destructive power of my ego.