A Testimonial from Youth Coach

Here's a testimony to the effectiveness of the Knowledge Vault. It really works!

“My 15-year-old son is rocking and rolling!

He won A Class at Gamaliel and punched up to AA after our winter break. At Northeast Regionals, he picked up eight punches. So, I expect that he’s going to be in the Master Class shark tank before long. The recent Coaching Hour about punching up to Master Class is perfectly timed!

I'll admit that I'm biased and new to this sport, but I think what makes this stand out is that the first NSCA event we ever shot was last year - the Gamaliel Cup in April 2017.

My son started shooting SCTP in the fall of 2015 using his grandfather's Remington 1100. At the time, I told him he could have any gun he wanted, as long as he paid for it. He saved up his money and about a year later bought a Silver Pigeon I.

Recently I’ve been surprised at how many people have asked my son who his professional coach is. It’s interesting to watch their expressions when he tells them the only professional coaching he’s had is one lesson with Gil last year and using the Knowledge Vault!

Since I'm getting questions about the Knowledge Vault, I've been trying to figure out how to summarize what it is and what we've gotten out of it. We started using it over a year ago and here's our approach what I've come up with:

• I've listened to every Coaching Hour from sometime in 2010 forward, then had my son listen to a subset of them. Usually, we listen to them as we're driving. Now we've decided that just like you shouldn't shoot the day before a competition, you shouldn't listen to Coaching Hours the day before a competition (and for the same reasons that we've learned in the Coaching Hours).
• When we started listening to the Coaching Hours, my son had been shooting for about a year and a half and I had just begun shooting. Everywhere we went, people gave us a huge amount of advice. But not all advice is good advice. I don't believe any of it was malicious; there was a lot of advice that we had to forget to get back on track.

  We hit the jackpot with the Coaching Hours - a wealth of solid advice that we could build on. It does a great job of covering all of the pieces needed for a solid foundation – mental, physical, technique, pre-competition, the competition, managing expectations (a big one for me), and many others.