That makes perfect sense for athletes too.
One thing with tapestry weaving (on a large scale) is that it trains the ability to 'hold' a vision of the completed image/weaving - similar to what you're speaking about with envisioning a performance or manouveur - from the outset of the piece....because with large tapestries, as you weave, and wind the woven fabric down around the bottom roller of the loom, the image 'disappears'...which could be for a year, on a big piece, so you've got to be able to carry/hold the image very precisely in your mind, to keep the tones/colours in balance....
I see/feel that process now as having been good 'training' for carrying/holding a precise vision of the higher dimensional world merging into this one, as I 'work' on/with it now, as a 'weaving of light', so to speak....
I suspect you already know what I would say about 'paradox', lol....