Efficiency & Accuracy
Accuracy demands that you hit a precise target. Efficiency demands that you arrive without anything that doesn't serve the technique. This creates friction, and pursued separately, they pull against each other: accurate and labored, or fluid and imprecise. Neither works.
An efficient movement delivered to the wrong place fails. An accurate movement burdened with unnecessary tension leaks force and telegraphs intent. Dialed in together, however, they compound. Convergence is the goal.
Repetition Is Not The Point
Precision is not about cold repetition. It is about developing a progressively finer map of where you are going wrong, and learning which points on that map matter most. You begin knowing only that you failed, but you can't say much more than that. The goal is to start characterizing and prioritizing those failures.
Every time you can say something specific, you are training your nervous system to recognize that class of error on contact. You are not merely accumulating reps but working to build an internal compass via deliberate practice, which is a different and considerably slower thing.
The feedback loop: attempt, fail, locate the error, choose the correction that matters most, adjust, attempt again. What tightens it is not effort or volume. It is perception and selectivity working together. How precisely can you define what went wrong? How clearly can you see which thread, when pulled, unravels the most?
Articulate that core error as specifically as your current understanding allows, and identify the one adjustment most worth making. You won't always have the vocabulary, but imprecise language about a real observation still gives your brain something to work with.
Over time, definitions sharpen, and maps fill in. Efficiency and accuracy, once antagonists, converge. What started as failure becomes: I was two inches high, and my hips weren't loaded, which is not just a more accurate description, but a more precise instruction for what comes next.
That is how you build a technique worth having: not by failing less, but by understanding, choosing your corrections wisely, and letting efficiency and accuracy find each other.