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It's Like Public Speaking
Learning to shoot at higher and higher levels is like public speaking. We can all talk, but how many of you could have a conversation about what we are discussing with 30 shooters? 100 shooters? 500 shooters? I can, because I have done it. I have put myself in the game enough times that I understand the topic and the misconceptions that shooters have about skill-building and performance, and I am a master of the mat... Read more…
Train with Prediction
Let's say you're approaching a shot under pressure. If you have trained it hundreds of times with prediction and execution of the prediction, it becomes easy to trust it. Hello! This is what practice is for! This is why I said in another post that you are not practicing the correct way of building long-term memory. Most shooters never take their practice game to higher levels. Therefore, they are not building long-... Read more…
Allow the Brain to Anticipate
The brain understands skill as a sequence of events that through repetition allows for it to see the sequence as one event not a series of events. This allows for the brain to anticipate ahead of what you are about to do and take over the tasking of orchestrating the shot while you focus on the target. Read more…
Greater Commitment
In the end, it takes a greater and greater commitment to train longer and at higher levels to achieve higher and higher successes. Sooner than later, that commitment is not met with the desire of shooters to put in the time. This leads to looking for the shortcut by trying to see or do what other shooters are doing. News flash: you can’t do what another shooter can do. That shooter has put in the effort to achieve... Read more…
Skill-Building in the Brain
There is a lot of shooting advice out there. But few, if any have studied skill-building in the brain as much as we have. Focus is an evolving phenomenon from beginner to Master Class. The conundrum is that the better you get, the less you must see to perform at higher levels.What the brain perceives as you become more skillful is an amazing evolution. It's something that we have been studying and documenting for 27... Read more…
