When we analyze a movement, a technique and we compare what we like with what we don’t like we cannot limit the check up to a simple, concrete measure of the angles and the pushes. Many times in a shorter and explosive push there is more confidence, control and intentionality. In a longer push there is a sense of waiting, an exigence to have more time for controlling more but in the same time there is a lack of intentionality and killer timing.
Behind a movement there is an emotion. I think that some time emotion can influence the power and sometime can be the opposite. Flow is a mix of physical and emotional feelings. Below what the father of the flow concept says:
“DISORDER IN CONSCIOUSNESS: PSYCHIC ENTROPY
One of the main forces that affects consciousness adversely is psychic disorder—that is, information that conflicts with existing intentions, or distracts us from carrying them out. We give this condition many names, depending on how we experience it: pain, fear, rage, anxiety, or jealousy. All these varieties of disorder force attention to be diverted to undesirable objects, leaving us no longer free to use it according to our preferences. Psychic energy becomes unwieldy and ineffective.
ORDER IN CONSCIOUSNESS: FLOW
The opposite state from the condition of psychic entropy is optimal experience. When the information that keeps coming into awareness is congruent with goals, psychic energy flows effortlessly.
They are situations in which attention can be freely invested to achieve a person’s goals, because there is no disorder to straighten out, no threat for the self to defend against. We have called this state the flow experience, because this is the term many of the people we interviewed had used in their descriptions of how it felt to be in top form: “It was like floating,” “I was carried on by the flow.” It is the opposite of psychic entropy—in fact, it is sometimes called negentropy—“
From Flow of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
