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"If you're thinking, you're stinking"
"If you're thinking, you're stinking" Here is a perfect example. I have had eight to ten shooters call in the past weeks after Nationals who have been taking lessons from shooters in their area and have gotten their scores to 83-85. They were told by their shooter coaches to go shoot more tournaments and call them when they find a shot that is giving them trouble. They call us and are in the Knowledge Vault for l... Read more…
High Volume Shoot - Bolivia 2019
I'm home from Bolivia. Gil and I had a great week seeing old friends, making new ones and instructing in the field on how to best take the dove and pigeon shots. Everyone did their gun mount homework. Slowing the birds down was big for most. But there is always a but! Since we had one student who had never been on a high-volume shoot, we took very good care to make sure that there was no damage to the shoulder. ... Read more…
It's Like Public Speaking
Learning to shoot at higher and higher levels is like public speaking. We can all talk, but how many of you could have a conversation about what we are discussing with 30 shooters? 100 shooters? 500 shooters? I can, because I have done it. I have put myself in the game enough times that I understand the topic and the misconceptions that shooters have about skill-building and performance, and I am a master of the mat... Read more…
Kentucky, Colorado, Bolivia and Argentina!
We went to a new (to us) club - Jefferson County Sportsmen's Club in Louisville, KY. The flight over was interesting. As much as we travel, we haven’t had the pilot come on the speaker and say we needed to stop for fuel due to the bad headwinds. So we stopped at a small airport and got fuel and got back on our way. It put us two and a half hours late, but we got there. At the club in Louisville, we learned a lo... Read more…
Train with Prediction
Let's say you're approaching a shot under pressure. If you have trained it hundreds of times with prediction and execution of the prediction, it becomes easy to trust it. Hello! This is what practice is for! This is why I said in another post that you are not practicing the correct way of building long-term memory. Most shooters never take their practice game to higher levels. Therefore, they are not building long-... Read more…
