Absolutley.  As a young person I wanted desperately to be a dancer, but learning choreography was painful to me.  The only way for me to learn was endless repetition, and I never could connect to the emotion behind the choreographed movement.  The only dance I could relate to was improvisation, because it touched with whatever I was feeling right then and there.  Once the movement and emotion were expressed, for lack of a better description, then it was done; to try and repeat it only resulted in shallow, hollow, mimicry.

I danced (modern, jazz and folk dance) and could remember patterns for some reason, but only if I had music to link with it. I used word descriptions to remember the moves.I also did TaeKwonDo as an adult and managed to achieve 2nd dan. I had to do patterns repeatedly to memorize them, and again, I used words, physical/muscle memory and sometimes orientation. I always had difficulty when our instructor would say visualize this attack so that you can do the defence properly.Learning how to move properly when doing wieght training came relatively easily since most of it is pretty logical with body alignment and the way bones and muscles work together.A lot of this stuff, once it is learned is stored as physical memory, so no need for the visual.Unfortunately for me, I need to review regularly if I want a physical skill to stick.

I grew up dancing and never really had this issue. It might have been because I was already used to mirroring what I was being taught, but I did find it difficult to remember what I was doing every week. I had to store it as muscle memory rather than visual memory. However, I feel that way for setting up lab equipment. I'm an undergrad working in a lab this year at my university, and I need to be shown multiple times how to set up the equipment properly, especially if we don't use it very often. I often don't have a picture to go by. So I guess it depends on your visual memory, but also what you're used to doing?

Absolutley.  As a young person I wanted desperately to be a dancer, but learning choreography was painful to me.  The only way for me to learn was endless repetition, and I never could connect to the emotion behind the choreographed movement.  The only dance I could relate to was improvisation, because it touched with whatever I was feeling right then and there.  Once the movement and emotion were expressed, for lack of a better description, then it was done; to try and repeat it only resulted in shallow, hollow, mimicry.

I danced (modern, jazz and folk dance) and could remember patterns for some reason, but only if I had music to link with it. I used word descriptions to remember the moves.I also did TaeKwonDo as an adult and managed to achieve 2nd dan. I had to do patterns repeatedly to memorize them, and again, I used words, physical/muscle memory and sometimes orientation. I always had difficulty when our instructor would say visualize this attack so that you can do the defence properly.Learning how to move properly when doing wieght training came relatively easily since most of it is pretty logical with body alignment and the way bones and muscles work together.A lot of this stuff, once it is learned is stored as physical memory, so no need for the visual.Unfortunately for me, I need to review regularly if I want a physical skill to stick.

I grew up dancing and never really had this issue. It might have been because I was already used to mirroring what I was being taught, but I did find it difficult to remember what I was doing every week. I had to store it as muscle memory rather than visual memory. However, I feel that way for setting up lab equipment. I'm an undergrad working in a lab this year at my university, and I need to be shown multiple times how to set up the equipment properly, especially if we don't use it very often. I often don't have a picture to go by. So I guess it depends on your visual memory, but also what you're used to doing?