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Reflections from Cosner Reserve
It looks like people are getting back to some sense of normal.On our way to Sporting Clays at Cosner Reserve in Pelham, North Carolina, the airport was really crowded. There wasn’t a seat left on the airplane – and it was a brand-new plane, at that. This is the second time this year we have been on the first flight of a new plane. The first time was when Brian and I went to Phoenix in February.I’m not exactly sure what... Read more…
Success in Des Moines
Gil and I just got back from Des Moines, Iowa and training the SCTP group and their coaches. What a great group of adults and athletes to be around. A big Thank You to Larry Gay who is in charge of the group and took such good care of us. We did coaches on Friday and athletes on Saturday and Sunday.What did we learn other than to not go to Iowa in April as it is still cold there? SCTP athletes have to shoot trap, sk... Read more…
Random Practice on Single Targets
Random practice, as opposed to blocked practice, requires the brain to retrieve skill circuits from your long-term memory. While you don’t get the feel-good of shooting the same target over and over 20 times, you’re training your brain to retrieve on the spot, which it will have to do on game day. Random practice can be singles or pairs, but in our experience, not enough shooters shoot single targets in diffe... Read more…
Shooters Who Want to Learn Too Fast
The more we watch the shooters we work with evolve, the better we get at communicating the little things that speed up that improvement. While each shooter is different, they all must make similar commitments to getting better. We have shooters who come to us who want to excel at a really fast pace. They want to skip to the advanced moves and information in the beginning. We typically tell them we’re already ... Read more…
Thoughts on the Advance Class: New Moves and Nose on the ...
Just like the wind, March flew by way too fast. We had two Advance Schools this year and due to the COVID restrictions, we were only allowed 12 people in the lodge at 74 Ranch. So, we had nine students and three instructors for two weeks.The majority of the time was spent on learning how to read targets in the break zone so you would know what it was doing and to learn the four new ways to shoot targets—Catch, Stroll, ... Read more…
