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Humans have a 3:1 Negativity Bias
Psychological research has shown that humans have a 3:1 negativity bias as our default setting in storing memories. The brain naturally stores negative memories faster and stronger than positive ones.Neuroscience and evolution give us a simple explanation. It was much more important to remember danger and threats long ago than to remember positive or happy incidents. If we remember the snake and the hot stove, we are m... Read more…
Coaching Hour Transcripts Underway, August Travels and More!
We, meaning all of us in the office plus our new editor Nick, are trying to get the rest of the Coaching Hour transcriptions up on the OSP website. 2001 through 2014 are up and readable, but we have many months to go.But go look at them. There’s a lot of information is in Coaching Hour from students who have had problems and gotten through them, with suggestions on what they did to solve them. There are also interviews... Read more…
Become Present with your Senses
Through an awareness of your senses, your goal is to become present with your senses before you close the gun and call “pull.”By trial and error in practice, you determine which senses you as an individual can count on when everything is on the line. It could be seeing, feeling, or visualizing - anything but thinking mechanical swing thoughts.What do we mean by sensory awareness? We mean awareness related to the five s... Read more…
Smiling Relaxes Tension!
Smiling relaxes tension in your jaw!Smiling with your shoulders back and stand-up posture releases DHEA into your system which is a good thing for performance.The idea is simple and powerful. When you’re present to something you can feel, hear, visualize, smell, or taste, you disengage the language center of the brain and engage the other brainwave states that control motor movement.If you are talking to yourself, you ... Read more…
Mastering Quartering Shots
Playing too close to the target will make you aware of how forgiving it really is to let it come.With our system, crossers are dead easy. It’s quartering targets you need to master. Spend some time there. Big deep shots followed by slow or fast shallow.When shooting quartering shots, the first move is away from the machine, even when you see the arm flash begin moving the muzzle away from the machine (especially on fas... Read more…
