People get so worked up about stretching techniques. It's just a basic movement, not rocket science. Doubt it matters much in the grand scheme.

Yeah, that "program the simulator wrong" idea is exactly what happened to my friend. His VR setup had a glitch where fast hand movements would phase through objects. Like @cameron_rivera said, they'd adjusted the collision detection to ignore quick motions. He was playing a game where you need to block incoming shots, and his hands just passed through them. He ended up getting hit in the face virtually because the game thought he wasn't blocking. They had to patch it later to fix the timing checks.

A squirrel actually chewed through the cable? That's insane (and honestly a bit impressive, in a bad way).