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Don’t Short-Change Yourself!
Here’s what we learned from training and evaluating an eight-week skeet league in late summer and early fall of 2016…If you are not doing practice drills #102 and #102 from quick tips, watching the Kill Shot Reviews on skeet, trap, or sporting clays, or watching the Kill Shot Reviews on hunting game birds, you are short-changing yourself.Doing the home drills and watching the KSRs work!Here is the proof. Read more…
Nuisance Decisions Get in the Way
We’re just getting back from South Carolina and Florida. It struck me how nuisance decisions get in the way of everyone shooting their best.On the September 2016 Coaching Hour, we discussed how making too many nuisance decisions before a tournament affected your performance. Nuisance decisions are decisions you make that are not life-threatening, like watching for police cars or ambulances, or other drivers on your way... Read more…
You Can’t Be Two Places at Once
On a recent Coaching Hour, our friend Dean Troutte said the following:“You are either in the cage thinking about what you are doing with the gun or you are downrange with the targets. You can’t be in two places at once.Where you are is your decision. So you have got to have everything you do in the stand trained so well that it happens the exact same way every time without you thinking about it! Then you can be downra... Read more…
What Shooters Say It Looks Like
There are a lot of different perceptions about what really happens when you shoot at a moving target with a shotgun. And there are even more different approaches to getting the gun in front of the target than you can imagine.But there is a real difference between the shooters at the top and the rest of the crowd.To talk about different perceptions, just ask five different people what it really looks like when you succe... Read more…
Sleep’s Effect on Performance
Check out the September 2016 Coaching Hour podcast!Sleep is really important. And not just the night before it starts; as much as a week before, and sometimes more than that.Things you do off the course can have a huge effect on your performance, hidden from most of us. But when you approach them like our client Rick did, you know what it takes for you to have a great performance.And even if you do everything right, it... Read more…
