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Watching Kill Shot Reviews Leads to Better Scores
Shooters who are watching the Clay Kill Shot Reviews before they practice and/or shoot tournaments are shooting better and more consistent scores.Vicki and Gil,Well, you did it for me again. First, I took some extra time on KSRs this week, using a trick that helps me get really wired in on them: I use my mouse to click the "pause" button on the video the second the picture looks stable and the shot seems right to me - ... Read more…
If You Are Thinking, You Are Stinking
If you are thinking, you are stinking.All thoughts have their origins in evaluating something. So when you find yourself evaluating anything, you are using short-term memory and the conversation will begin.When you are in the zone, nothing matters. But when you are not, everything matters. Read more…
Deliberate Practice Turns Into Mental Representation
As you develop a skill through deliberate practice, you repeat the component parts of the skill enough times through repetition so that the brain chunks together all of the parts in the sequence. It eventually turns into a mental representation.At that point, the brain can reproduce all parts sequentially without thought in a consistent manner. The brain then looks at all the parts coming together as one thing.The brai... Read more…
Your Judgments Come from Your Expectations
Typically, your judgment of whether something is good or bad comes from your expectations. This is especially true when shooting a tournament.Under emotional pressure, people tend to revert to past negative memories and associations if they don’t affirmatively decide that they want to store their current activities, emotions, and memories more positively.You are what you repeatedly do and you become what you remember. ... Read more…
Testimonial: "When you are a beginner everyone is an expert"
When you are a beginner, everyone is an expert. I just had to share this testimonial from Stephen with all of you: I bought a sporting shotgun back in February of this year to learn to shoot skeet, and the progression would then be on to sporting clays. It was the first time I had shot a shotgun in nearly 40 years. As a new shooter, it seemed to me that almost everyone I met was an expert at sporting clays, (because no... Read more…
