The subset of choke twirling is shell changing. I went though that phase too and carried a mind-boggling combination of shells including spreaders, various shot sizes, loads, velocities, dram weights and shot hardness.
On a competition course where you don't know the presentations until you get there I'd have 250 shells in my bag for a 100 round course. On more occasions than I'd care to recall I'd end up digging through my bag looking for a specific shell only to discover they'd been used earlier in the round.
I was going into the box thinking I didn't have the right shells in the gun. In hindsight that errant and irrelevant thought cost me targets.
The epiphany on chokes and loads came a few years ago during a review of notes from an instructional session I'd just taken. One phrase jumped out at me: REDUCE THE VARIABLES!
The point the instructor made was there are many variables beyond our control but reducing the variables we could control would result in more focus on breaking the targets which is why were there in the first place.
It dawned on me that while I could take the physical burden of an extra heavy load of chokes and shells, it was the mental burden of having to think about them that was taking away from focusing on the target.
I immediately dumped the contents of my shooting bag (now reaching duffel bag proportions) on my work bench. I found an older, smaller shooting bag and took a minimalist approach. In went skeet, light modified and improved modified chokes, ear and eye protection and a choke wrench. I thought of every sporting course I'd ever shot and what I really needed and in went 4 boxes of 1 ounce hard #8 and two boxes 1-1/8 of hard #7.5 both loads in the 1200-1250fps range. A spare set of batteries for my head set, a multi-tool, wad knocker, a little bottle of Tylenol and some Kleenex were also added. With the addition of some bug spray in the summer and a bottle of water that is about what you'll find in my shooting bag today.
Less thinking about trivia and more thinking about targets has improved my scores.
The minimalist approach also applies to HD shooting as well. Fewer choices to make in the heat of the moment is always preferable.