Don Tuite wrote:

I'd bet that thinking about it would tend to screw you up.

Very possibly.

I was fencing for a little while before college. The fencing coach in
college had us really "study" what we did; something I'd never done before.

As a result, I recall one bout where I tried to move both forward and
backward at the same time. The result was remarkable like a stall: I
dropped like a rock.

Onlookers feared for my health, and not because I'd hit the ground grin.

- Andrew

P.S. The end result of that "study" was significant improvement.
It also let me to be able to improve my own style. But it
had a cost laugh.