Totally agree with this. An underutilized safety feature is practice, something I am guilty of. Practicing threshold braking builds up muscle memory, which is what your default reaction is under a panic/high stress situation.
I do like to zip around manhole covers at slower speeds, pretending they are obstructions I am avoiding. Every now and then, on an empty road, I like to try an aggressive maneuver by performing an evasive maneuver at higher speeds (~40), such as swerving in between passing lines into the other lane, then back within the space between those lines. I always have my full gear on when doing this in case I lose it.
One time, while doing one of these maneuvers, I took myself and the make believe situation too seriously, and counter-steered hard and leaned up and in, left knee just inside the faring. I was pleasantly surprised how well the bike reacted.