What is Kinesthetic Awareness?

Kinesthetic Awareness  is a person's knowledge of the body position and movement in space and time in their environment - the Where and...

What is ‘muscle memory’ and how does it work?

The term 'muscle memory' is not a scientific term, and its actually wrong.   But the term does accurately describe how it FEELS when yo...

What is blocked/semi blocked/semi random/random/ practice and why and how does it help?

Some types of practices are more effective in creating 'muscle memory' than others, depending on the  motor learning stage, the skill b...

What is augmented feedback?

To Augment something  is to make it more bigger or more intense in some way.Feedback is information coming to you, (i.e. fed back) usua...

What is a sensorimotor pathway?

A sensorimotor pathway is like a road, or rather, two separate one-way roads,  like an  interterstate highway to and from your bra...

How does the body processes vibration on the skin?

The body processes vibration on the skin via  receptors or nerve cells.  Some are closer to the surface of the skin, some are deep...

What is sensory compensation?

If you've ever had to take a phone call in a loud place, a restaurant for example, and you find yourself leaning over, head down, plugging t...

What is a compensatory mechanism?

 In the context of movement, a compensatory mechanism is a natural action that happens, either consciously or unconsciously to maintain...

What is a movement adaptation strategy?

One way of describing a movement adaptation strategy is 'moving differently to achieve some movement goal.' Limping, in some ways, is m...

What is an affordance?

An affordance is an opportunity. It is an  invitation to act.'  The environment invites us to interact with it.  Keep reading...

Why do I have the urge to look at my body when I move, to see where it is?

Visual  input (what you see) is the dominant sensory input in the brain. When you first start KAT training, your brain is used to ...

What are receptors?

Receptors are nerve cells than send information to the brain. Mechanoreceptors are nerve cells that relay mechanical information to the...

How long does it take to create muscle memory?

The ‘it” – motor learning improvement- has many influencing factors (physical, emotional and psycho-social, practice design, genetics, etc)&...

What is Visual Occlusion?

Visual Occlusion: Occlusion means blocking.  Closing your eyes to block visual input. This technique helps with kinesthetic awareness b...

What is Visualization?

Vizualization is a technique in which you imagine yourself performing. It is often done from a 'first person' perspective (from inside your ...

What is Error Prediction? (aka Temporal Prediction)

Temporal Prediction is a technique to fine tune or recalibrate your proprioception in time. With eyes closed,  you consciously estimate...

What is neural priming?

Many athletes already do versions of neural priming.  If they perform  a ‘motor rehearsal’ of their movements  or skill ...

What is the brain's model?

The Model. Why is it important?The brain keeps a map or ‘3D model’ of the body in its current environment, so it knows where the body is in ...

What is Kinesthetic Dissonance?

Kinesethetic dissonance is  our term for the lack of accurate kinesthetic awareness.It occurs when the brain's model of the body's posi...