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Concentration: The Art of Thinking About Nothing
Your focus improves as your habits improve. The amount you have used that specific habit in competition in turn determines how comfortable you are when you are competing.I was in a shoot-off with Olympic skeet shooter Matt Dryke at the first Beretta championships held in our country in 1987. While waiting to shoot off, I asked Matt how he concentrated when shooting at the Olympic level.“Concentration is the art of thin... Read more…
Developing Your Skills into Habits
The beginning shooter must train themselves to develop good habits that they can depend on when they are performing. Nothing is a skill until it becomes a habit.Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky said, “We are all creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they hold up under pressure.”Tennis great Martina Navratilova said, “Every great shot you hit in a match must have been hit hundreds of times in practice!”E... Read more…
Knowledge Vault: Get More out of Your Practice
Before you go practice, always look in the Knowledge Vault and review companion videos in the sporting clays section of presentations you are about to practice. Then look at clay kill shot reviews of targets you are going to practice.You will automatically get more out of your practice. Read more…
The Mental Libraries of Top Shooters
Through purposeful practice, the top shooters have assembled a mental library of what it really looks like when they break a target, which allows them to send a detailed visual to their brains.When they call “pull,” they already know what it will look like. Their brains respond in kind over and over and over. What happens at the end of the shot is predetermined because they are always downrange with the targets!You can... Read more…
The Brain Needs a Movie
Why are so many shooters so confused about why they can’t get the gun where they already know it is supposed to be?Well, our experience shows that top shooters can visualize exactly what they are about to do to break the targets in vivid detail. They visualize it as a movie with the shots coming together in slow motion while all the rest of the shooters are constantly calling “pull” and trying to fix the shot at the en... Read more…