SuperRanger: It is a shame that we only practice aborts once per year in the sim.
However, if your preflight "flow" tells you to check the spoilers (while noticing fluc. in hydraulic pressures) and then to push the throttles forward, thereby retracting the gnd spoilers, you can modify this just a little bit and practice the motions of an abort each time you do the long preflight checklist, while pushing on the brake pedals. Just don't forget to reset the parking brakes!
This practice helps me in the sim, because the abort is less of a radical change to the normal landing where we almost never need to lift the spoiler handle-unless the FO makes a very smooth landing with some float and the wheels barely kisss the runway (2 main wheels spin-up to activate, before ground shift happens). They mostly make better landings than I do.
