What Prevents You from Self-Correcting?

These are things that keep people from being able to self-correct:

- Muzzle awareness. You need to begin to recognize when you look at the barrel in the setup, which leads to awareness in the shot.

- Too much cheek pressure and too much grip pressure. Both of those things are bonded at the hip. You can't have soft hands and a hard cheek on the gun. And if you have hard hands on the gun, eventually you're going to want to put a hard cheek on the gun.

- Calling "pull" with no visual plan or command to the brain.

- Setting up your feet to where you're out of balance in the breakpoint.

- Checking the lead, stopping the gun.

- Trying and hoping. (That’s a big one.)

Here are a few more:

- Letting the target get too close to the gun

- Pushing away at the last minute

- Shooting swing-through

- Pulling away from targets

- Trying to fix the shot at the end

- Looking at the lead

- Gun fit

- Starting too close to the trap

- Eyes moving when you call “pull,” and so on

This is an excerpt from the May 2021 Coaching Hour podcast. You can listen to it and read a written transcript, along with more than 20 years of archived episodes with your Knowledge Vault membership.