forepractice

From fore- +‎ practice.

forepractice (countable and uncountable, plural forepractices)

1. Prior or previous practice; a practice or technique applied in advance.
   • 1918, Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind. Department of Research, Publications:

     The small sheet is used as forepractice, to assist the pupils in understanding the mechanism of the test. The large sheets contain the test material.

   • 2005, Thi Minh-Ha Trinh, The Digital Film Event:

     In my case, I usually shoot with no forepractice and often with only one eye—the kinoeye, as Vertov called it.

   • 2012, Lonchen Rabjam, Natural Perfection: Longchenpa's Radical Dzogchen:

     Any kind of preparation or forepractice muddies the waters in its assumption of a goal to be reached. Access to the clarity and the Zing of reality, on the contrary [...]