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The Game has Changed
I began my sporting career with a gun that shot 70/30 that I designed. It later became the Browning Special Sporting (crossover) and Lightning Sporting with a flat rib.But targets were rising or were flat and a long target was 30 yards!The game has changed and there are as many falling targets as there are rising targets now. So as the game has evolved, we have evolved from 60/40 to 50/50!How many long crossers have yo... Read more…
Gun Fit and Cheek Pressure
We have learned a lot about gun fit and cheek pressure over the past 25 years as professional coaches, the previous 17 years as competitive skeet shooters, and then as sporting clays competitors since 1983.We also have heard the theories about the iris sitting on the rib like a marble on a table. But we have found what works for us and all of our students. With the iris in the above position, whatever cheek pressure is... Read more…
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…
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…
