He had the right coordination of his body, although he was right-handed and left-footed, and had those amazing reflexes.
When it works, though, look ahead has an uncanny effect, allowing cubers to link moves so seamlessly that their reflexes seem superhuman.
Their actions can be thought of as simply genetic reflexes.
But you already saw he had some good reflexes".
Valdés might not be a long-term solution at the age of 33 but he has won the Ricardo Zamora trophy as the best goalkeeper in La Liga more times than anyone else and the answer might be staring United in the face if his year recovering from a knee injury has not dulled his reflexes.
The test in the months ahead will be whether Mr Sarkozy can resist making crowd-pleasing gestures in hopes of propping up his short-term popularity and instead recover the reformist reflexes that marked his early months in office.
For a start, in an age in which information and processing power are ubiquitous, they will have to become less like guilds, whose reflexes are to regulate supply and restrict competition, and more like mass-market businesses, whose instinct is to maximise the customer base.
Mr Chirac threatened to veto UN intervention in Iraq; Mr Sarkozy was also against the war, but says that France diminished its influence through "arrogance".Their divergent transatlantic reflexes shape their thinking on Africa and the Middle East too.
Never a fully fledged liberal, he nonetheless had enough liberal reflexes to understand that the French could preserve the best of their way of life only through reform.What a shrunken version of that politician now occupies the presidency.
In his most famous campaign speech, before a wildly cheering crowd in Le Bourget, candidate Hollande declared war on the "world of finance" and denounced the "grasping and arrogant" rich, in a direct appeal to the left's anti-capitalist reflexes.
The team is now conducting follow-up experiments to see whether this is what is happening.All of these results suggest to Dr Flor that phantom-limb pain is best understood as a form of unconscious learning, similar to motor reflexes and perception skills.
