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Spatial awareness.
I was in gymnastics as a kid, so built up a strong sense of balance and where my arms and legs are in relation to the stuff around me.
Are you also good at catching stuff that falls without ever looking?
No. Most of the time I just bat it into the air, higher than it originally fell from, thus exacerbating the situation...
I do occasionally "pin" something to the wall/table/storage apparatus with my hand. That's about as good as it gets though :/
“I bet you’re also good at x”
“Oh nah not that, especially not that”
That candidness was charming lol. Fellow gymnast. What the other person was talking about is another spatial reasoning skill that often coexists with yours. As it pertains to external objects and their trajectories, you see it more in athletes who played sports involving a ball. Humans are neat.
Yeah, I forgot what the sense was called, awareness of your limbs in relation to your body and balance, the sense that gets all wobbly with alcohol; hence, the close-your-eyes-and-touch-your-nose test. I'm 40 and still walk on curbs like they are balance beams. Favorite was the rings, the closest thing I can get to flying without also becoming motion sick :/
You throw me a ball, I'll prevent it from hitting me, but forget intercepting the things with any grace or plan. Me trying out for tennis in middle school was basically mini dodge ball.
Hey rings were my favorite too! Followed by pommel horse and anything with a foam pit at the end. Almost made floor work worth it lol.
Totally, I think most people can train motor, reflex, and spatial reasoning skills and learn all kinds of sports, well past 40 since the brain and peripheral nervous system remains remarkably plastic into old age, but it’s pretty cool to have something your body has known since childhood that sticks around and helps you out day-to-day :)
Due to waaaay to much hackysack in my youth, I'm very adept at catching things with my foot. Phones, empty mugs, that sort of things.
I partner dance and I joke that I'm graceful as long as I have on dance shoes. Off the dance floor I'm always bumping into things, knocking stuff over, just generally klutzy seeming. On the dance floor I'm able to navigate the crowd and prevent collisions.
I was in my 40s until I admitted to my self that spatial awareness simply doesn't work in my brain. My young friend across the street is excellent and I often have to call him over to assemble something I've taken apart. In fact, I'm going to hit him up to help me reassemble a shed. Used, it came with no directions and no way in hell do I figure out how it goes together. And I took it apart!
In elementary school standard tests I'd excel at every subject except spatial reasoning. I'd try! But no, I have no idea how those shapes rotate to make the shape wanted.