Kinaesthetic perception and sports skills: some empirical findings, philosophic comment and possible applications for the teaching of golf

It is important to understand that kinaesthetic perception is not to be confused with uninformed and ill-differentiated forms of sensation. It refers rather in its dynamic (as opposed to static) form, to those distinctive kinaesthetic flow patterns of which we are or can become conscious when various forms of motor skill have been practised and learnt. Kinaesthetic perception, it is sometimes said, is unique among the perceptual systems in that stimulation comes from within the organism itself rather than from some external stimulus as, for example, with sight or touch.