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Be Specific About Your Shooting Goals
Goals are very personal. How you look at things, how you name them, and the value you draw from them are also very personal things. In some of the emails I've gotten from the guys who are going to be on tonight, they're all saying the same thing.You need to research where you are, and where you want to be. Get the calendar out and begin to fill in the blank dates with shoots and travel times to and from tournaments.How... Read more…
How Shooters’ Perception Evolves
Let’s get back to the evolution of perceptions shooters go through as they gain more and more experience in deliberate practice and shooting tournaments. Everyone has a sequence in their brain that has been fired many times to point at something they are looking at. When a new shooter tries to look at the target but point the gun in front of the target, the pointing sequence crashes. Adding to the confusion, when looki... Read more…
Shooting Without Thinking - Your Working Memory
We think it would be good to talk about one more step in the performance part of sporting clays that not many of you have considered.When you look at a target for the first time, your long-term memory sees it and instantly searches the inventory of similar shots that you have deliberately practiced or deliberately shot in a tournament. It takes the beginning of one and the middle sections of two others and the ending o... Read more…
Physiological Diplopia and Neurological Suspension
When a new shooter says something about the confusion, someone - albeit well-intended - throws their hands up in the air and proclaims that you’re left-eye dominant. You immediately feel like damaged goods, and some well-meaning person puts tape on your non-shooting eye and the confusion goes away. The reason it goes away is that whether you are focused on the target or the gun, you only see one image of both.On the su... Read more…
The Rhythm in Your Routine
It is not so much what is in your routine that is important, but the rhythm of your routine that allows your brain to know exactly when you will be calling. This in turn allows the brain to begin doing its job before you call “pull” without you even knowing what it is doing. You have been there, but you did not know how you got there. And when you recognized you were in the zone, you got careful and overthought your wa... Read more…
