I would guess it’s being sufficiently “loose” before you start to reach, because he had to physically wobble my arm around before I was “loose” enough.
Of course it’s also possible that this doesn’t work all the time and it’s some kind of group hypnosis—which would still be interesting in its own right.
Years of learning Aikido really should change the way the muscles are activated. So it would be surprising if no change showed in the MRI. You probably were mentally prepared when you tried, so that experiment was biased. Hypnosis is know to affect muscles so no surprise there either.
So my prediction is that these kinds of hacks only work with considerable preparation. Still it’s good to know that they work in principle.
I would guess it’s being sufficiently “loose” before you start to reach, because he had to physically wobble my arm around before I was “loose” enough.
Of course it’s also possible that this doesn’t work all the time and it’s some kind of group hypnosis—which would still be interesting in its own right.
Years of learning Aikido really should change the way the muscles are activated. So it would be surprising if no change showed in the MRI. You probably were mentally prepared when you tried, so that experiment was biased. Hypnosis is know to affect muscles so no surprise there either.
So my prediction is that these kinds of hacks only work with considerable preparation. Still it’s good to know that they work in principle.