How do you use visualization to improve your performance?
Somebody once told me that a basketball team that just practiced visualizing playing the game scored almost as many baskets as a team that actually practiced playing the game. How could you go about visualizing yourself performing your forms and techniqued to improve your performance? Would it help to tape yourself and either watch it or a video of someone else doing the moves in your style and make believe that you are actually doing it for real? If not, then what would be a good way to visualize yourself doing your techniques? Also, can visualizing too much do more harm than good? If so, then how much is too much? Thanks in advance.
Article on visualization to improve performance
I was talking to someone here a few weeks ago about how I heard that studies have shown that imagining that you're performing movements fires the same neurons as actually doing them, or something like that.
Here is an article that kind of talks about that and I think mentions a study about it, too. I just kind of skimmed it, tho, so I'm not entirely sure if it's good or not.