Question - Target practice – how does this help?
Answer – focus
Rock-climbing – this is about team building – but also strategy
The ‘Target Practice’ thing is interesting. I’d like to tie this in with system simulation and make both facets of a more general activity, which we might call ‘play’ – dedicating attention to limited tasks with self-imposed constraints and a tractable set of materials in pursuit of an abstract goal (not even that – pure exploratory play, to develop a sense of the possibilities of the materials at hand, is important). All sorts of sports, games, simulations, role-plays fall into this category: the benefit to the (developing) architect is likely to be in exposure to large numbers of systems, representations, consequences of actions.