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Learn From Your Own Failures
We temper our corrections with all of the things about the shooter in mind. This ability must be learned and honed from years of experience being wrong over and over again. Good judgment comes from bad judgment... if you can learn from your own failures. Success comes from failure. “Success represents one percent of your work, which results only from the 99 percent that is called failure. Success can be ... Read more…
Don't Let Your Opponent Outwork You!
You coach a beginner, encourage an intermediate, and share ideas with an advanced shooter. The shooters you are talking about are only missing two to six targets per 100, and the smart ones are still seeing their coaches on a regular basis, which is how they got to be Elite shooters in the first place. As Tiger Woods said, "My opponents may outscore me, but they will never outwork me!” Enuff said! Read more…
Learning with ShotKam
I go back to Doss and what we discovered last Christmas with his ShotKam. His picture was not stable. It was collapsing on all shots, which led to an inexplicable periodic slash at the end of his shot! Now, there are probably no other coaches who have my experience looking over someone’s shoulder, but Vicki and I could not see the subtleties of what he was doing - and he was hitting the bird and winning tournaments... Read more…
Pre-Mount in Routine
Our conclusions are typically drawn from how many times we have to make the same correction on thousands of students. Let's say an elite shooter came to me and asked for help. If that elite shooter did a pre-mount and did not seem to put the muzzle in the shot, causing him to miss, then I probably would not say anything. But if the same shooter came to me with an intermittent missing problem on a variety of shots ... Read more…
Sleep!
Sleep is the most often overlooked aspect of peak performance! Sleep is tied to: Reaction timeMental awarenessMuscular recoveryConverting what you just learned to memory! Only four hours of sleep a night for a week is like drinking a six-pack and then going to work! Lack of sleep causes testosterone levels to temporarily drop and dip by an amount equal to 11 years of aging, and a single all-nigh... Read more…
