Drills with a smooth progression curve are an order of magnitude more effective than ones that require you "draw the rest of the fucking owl". You want to be able to mentally process what you would've liked to do differently beyond just "it was wrong" - [[Learning is capped by how clearly execution error is observed]]. Simplifying a drill down to a "Minimum viable intention" allows for meaningful progress within a relatively short training session. This can make the difference between drilling for days with no results vs. seeing meaningful progress within 30 minutes. Some ways to simplify a movement are: ### Slice the time sequence Drilling a complex movement from 0-100 is usually slower than drilling each component from 0-100, and then drilling the composition from 0-100. An example of this is [[Drill each wave isolation one joint at a time]]. ### Focus on one body part When it is difficult to cleanly disassemble a complex movement into sub-moves (often the case with grooves), you can still simplify by focusing on one "slice" or facet of the movement. For example, focusing just on shoulders in the cobra wave. ### Focus on one sub-movement Some movements can be thought of as two movements performed simultaneously. For example, [[Fixed point as branch motion "cancelling out" trunk motion, so the leaf is fixed]]