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Deliberate Practice
The Coaching Hour is tonight and we will be beginning a discussion on “deliberate practice” and its effect on higher levels of performance.Last month we began this discussion and instead of an hour, it went an hour and a half. We expect tonight to be the same.I’m on my sixth or seventh listen to “Peak” by Anders Ericsson. And things are revealing themselves to me more and more each time. Many of the things we have talk... Read more…
NSSF Shares OSP Tips on Social Media
We are just back from the National Shooting Sports Foundation where Brian, Vicki, and I did some tips that NSSF will be putting up on all mediums - Facebook, Twitter, etc.Some of them were the longer tips like I have done in the past, but many of them are a new shorter format for the other mediums. We can't wait for them to be out there for all to see.Brian has begun to do voiceovers on the new videos we are shooting w... Read more…
Pennsylvania to Houston to Connecticut
We’re on to Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays and had another great three days of learning with a lot of new folks and several of our repeat offenders.Lehigh is in an old limestone quarry and has a lot of different presentations. They have three different courses, so a lot of diversifications in targets. And of course, there is always one or two on the course that someone just hates, so off we go.The biggest “aha” was that ... Read more…
Coaching Hour in Knowledge Vault
Perhaps the most overlooked section of the Knowledge Vault is Coaching Hours! We have been doing a one-hour conference call every month since November 2001 and they are all in the section.First, listen to or read March 2015 to understand what skill is and how it is built, then go to the most recent and work your way back to the beginning.The Coaching Hour podcast each month is of the greatest value, and there are 190+ ... Read more…
Bye-Bye, Harvey - Hello, St. Louis!
Harvey is gone and left the Houston area devastated with homes underwater and lives destroyed. But we will return as a better city.The one thing that everyone shared with us from all over the country during the past couple of weeks is how Houstonians were helping others in this time of need. We need a lot of that throughout the country instead of the hatred that has been brewing for several years… My two cents.We left ... Read more…
