I Could Do It Until You Started Filming.

“Do that again. I’ll film it.”

A perfectly innocent sentence.

Five seconds later, a movement you have just performed becomes a complicated negotiation between your limbs.

You know how to do it.

There were witnesses.

Unfortunately, there is now also a camera.

The first attempt is slightly wrong. On the second, you start thinking about the first. By the third, you are explaining that it normally looks better.😂

The person filming is very patient.

This somehow makes it worse.

I find this one of the more entertaining experiences in sport: discovering how quickly “I’m doing this” can become “I wonder what I look like doing this.”

Now you are performing the movement and mentally watching the video at the same time.

Your attention has acquired an additional job.

Then you look at the recording.

“Again.”

Perhaps there was something useful to notice. Perhaps you simply dislike the expression on your face.

These are separate matters, although they can become remarkably confused.

A training video can help you examine a specific detail. Where was your position? When did you begin the movement? What changed between attempts?

But before filming another version, I like the practical question: what are we trying to see?

If we know that, the recording has a purpose.

Otherwise, we may spend half a session trying to create visual evidence that we are perfectly capable of something we were doing quite happily before the phone appeared.

And then there is the familiar ending.

The camera goes down.

The person filming turns away.

You try once more.

Perfect.

Naturally.🤷‍♀️

And if that inspires the words “one more time”, I have a question about that too.

Silvia