WobblyStroke
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"having the wit to find the balance when it's lost" and 'deliberately filtering the sloppiness" sounds a whole lot like "fix something" to me.
Overall, I think there might be two camps in this thread talking about two diff things. I dunno how anyone got the idea that some dude without any concept of his own technique beyond vague feels and the occasional rain dance, can 'go on auto'. My understanding of going on auto is ingraining something so completely it happens automatically...but it still had to be ingrained with a lot of intent and conscious effort.
As for the examples of overcoming poor form as OP demonstrated (in written form anyway) and I tried with the professor... we're just highlighting the importance of being externally focused on the outcome--the what--instead of being internally focused on 'the how'. These are over-the-top examples of throwing out all technicals and just 'willing the ball in' like the old Japanese golf pro drilling putts with all sorts of janky strokes and setups. The point is to highlight the focus on execution of a shot rather than execution of a stroke. For those that will argue that focus on the stroke will best accomplish the shot, sorry, you are wrong. Every study on the matter says so. Most ppl don't understand the great deal of subconscious adjustments we make while performing a shot. Being tuned in to the intended result guides these adjustments to their objective whereas focusing on making certain body parts move in a certain sequence will make sure that the neo-cortex will override the motor centers of the brain and make sure those parts move as desired...result of the shot be damned. I mentioned former snooker pro and commentator Jim Wyche's wise words of "what not how". You hear something very similar in golf where commentators can be heard saying things like 'he needs to get back to playing golf instead of golf-swing'.
In general I think the camp I'm in can best be summed up with the tweaked golf quote: People would play much better if they focused on playing pool instead of pool-stroke. Focus on the shot, not the stroke.
