The kinesthetic-drilling regime — the documentary substrate of E.T.A.
echoes
From: Federer Both Flesh and Not
- Early text: "refining the kinesthetic sense is the main goal of
the extreme daily practice regimens we often hear about"; "Hitting thousands of
strokes, day after day, develops the ability to do by “feel” what cannot be
done by regular conscious thought"; "Repetitive practice like this often looks
tedious or even cruel to an outsider, but the outsider can’t feel what’s going
on inside the player". [the kinesthetic-sense passage] [e-text]
- IJ echo: E.T.A.'s entire pedagogy — the grinding daily drill culture, the
Schtitt/deLint regime, tennis as a discipline that trains the body past
conscious thought; the academy's ethos that repetition tedious-or-cruel to
outsiders is the medium of excellence. Federer's "do by “feel” what cannot be
done by regular conscious thought" is, almost verbatim, the state E.T.A.'s
drilling is built to install.
- Weight: shared-preoccupation (documentary substrate)