SOM.3:4 - Solution

SOM.3:4.1 - Establish an available change

Choose the receiving result and the bodily change from SOM.1. Recover a contrast the performer can already distinguish under these support and contact conditions. Begin with a familiar amount of effort that serves the task; do not seek a maximum or minimum merely to produce a clearer report.

Identify how the change develops and what is experienced after release. If release makes the difference noticeable when its development was unclear, use that report to choose the next attempt.

SOM.3:4.2 - Adjust in discernible increments

Produce a small increase, reduction or release within the technique’s ordinary limits. Observe its development, release and effect. Use the observed difference to choose the next increment.

Reduce the increment only while the performer can distinguish it and its effect still answers the working question. If it becomes indistinguishable, restore an available increment or change suitable support. If a reduction loses necessary contact or support, return to a working amount. The boundary of a useful reduction is part of the result.

Practise regulating while the effort develops. A report after release can help learning, but it does not show that adjustment was available during the action. When the report changes without the expected external effect, revisit the proposed connection rather than merely reducing the increment again.

SOM.3:4.3 - Compare experience and effect

Observe the result the receiving task needs: security of a held tool, continuity of contact, position or another relevant effect. Where suitable, an instrument may make that external effect easier to observe. Keep its resolution and what it measures explicit.

Keep a sensation report distinct from a force measurement. Compare the two accounts to decide whether the intended regulation occurred. A constant-looking instrument reading also cannot tell you which bodily change produced it.

SOM.3:4.4 - Restore the conditions of use

Use feedback that the work permits. If later performance must occur without watching the instrument or receiving the teacher’s cue, test that condition separately within the practice’s limits. If continued feedback is permitted, retaining it can be a useful arrangement.

Restore movement and the other contributions that must continue. Use SOM.4 when serial correction prevents their joint performance, and SOM.5 when a changed support or load makes the previously available regulation fail. Stop an attempt that produces pain, dizziness or unfamiliar loss of control; a failed increment is not a diagnosis.