I mean depends how well you train yourself/mind. Personally when I was playing music quite heavily and having to do sight reading, especially fast music, they teach u to read many measures ahead of where u are before u get there. In skating i do this with my lines on the fly, like I already mentally prepare where I’m going from the landing of the last trick. Like for instance say I fudge a landing of an impossible in the sense of like I land with my front foot on the nose and then my back foot halfway up the board, which is quite common for an impossible as I’m sure some of you all know. Well if I land that way and I was planning on something different earlier but don’t have to time to position my feet then I’m gonna have to improvise with what I’m going to do next, which if u get stuck in ruts like these often is pretty easy to do since u have familiarized yourself with the flawed landings. I mean this is a very simplistic example, but u can extrapolate many more advanced things from that thought.
When I learn tricks, see I have a photographic memory for visual data, so when I’m learning a trick I visualize who my favorite to ever do the trick that has a body style similar to mine on an obstacle similar to mind. I think of that trick in my head like a 3 dimensional model in say some computer animation software that Pixar or someone uses. Trying to recreate that exact model on the obstacle that I’m skating. The photographic memory thing also comes in hand when friends need help with what skater did what on where.