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by xarope 1096 days ago
It's the "flow", as with many other sports requiring very high levels of hand-eye coordination, whether climbing, martial arts, olympic weight lifting, fencing etc. You don't have time to see, mentally process, then do; instead you just think/feel and the body does, and somehow that is much faster than is possible by the physical measurement of electrical signals from your eye to your body.