Dear Chad,
Timing in the world is objective, but feel is subjective. Touch is about connecting to the objective world -- dealing with it as it actually is, whatever it is. For this, simply going to your standard timing in the backstroke and waiting to see what sort of SIZE backstroke your instincts come up with is the alternative to "trying to get or resurrect the appropriate feel". Just look at the target distance with the intention of rolling the ball all the way there not short or long and then making the normal rhythmic backstroke without expectations concerning the size of the stroke.
Sure it's confusing. people can't quit "trying" to feel the distance, since these waters are grossly polluted by golf psychs and incorrect notions of how touch works at an instinctive level. ignore all that and just pay attention to the situation and make a nice backstroke that joins into your ever-present sense of back-and-forth timing, whether the same as that of the world or something patterned after that but quicker.
Cheers!
Geoff Mangum
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