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Skill and Repetition
We have discovered many things in our years of shooting and coaching, and one of the most startling ones is the direct link between the quality, frequency, and intensity of a shooter’s practice and how well they shoot when it counts.This discovery comes from our encounters with shooters who are looking for the magic bullet or the pixy dust that top shooters know but the rest of the shooters don’t know. That’s what’s ke... Read more…
The Habits That Are Hidden by Conscious Thought
Our research shows several patterns that have emerged over the years we have been professional coaches, and it basically boils down to two things: either shooters begin to try or begin to evaluate while they are performing. There is a sequence we have noticed as shooters begin to work their way through the classes. It begins with trying, hoping, and evaluating during the first third of the course. They stink it up, and... Read more…
The Three-Bullet Drill and the Sight Picture
When shooters begin to learn to see the target behind where the barrel is pointed, they stop looking at the barrel. The barrel has a place in the picture, but it is always in the periphery. We have been using a gun mount practice to show the brain what it really looks like to see the target behind where the muzzle is pointed, we call it the three-bullet drill. If you put in the time and work, this simple gun mount dril... Read more…
Eye Dominance and Visual Delay
The instant the new shooter says something about the confusing picture, they are immediately misdiagnosed as “cross-dominant!”There is a perception out there that if you are right-handed and right-eye dominant that you can look at the target and look down the barrel and get the correct lead to hit a moving target with no visual confusion. But in our experience, nothing could be further from the truth.Please realize tha... Read more…
“Talent Hotbeds”
Daniel Coyle, author of “The Talent Code,” has a knack for putting things in words based on his research of “talent hotbeds” - coaching situations that produced high performers consistently. This book is where we first learned about the myelination of circuits in the brain. The process occurs based on deliberate practice and tearing the skill apart into many different small skill sets, and the brain can chunk these ski... Read more…
