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Neutral or Happy
In Lynn Marriott and Pia Nilsson's book, "Every Shot Must Have a Purpose," their mantra is “neutral or happy” from an emotional standpoint. A lot of emotional outbreak, whether positive or negative, is not good. If you're overly congratulatory and excited about positive things that are happening, you risk throwing your adrenaline out of control, over-adrenalizing yourself. And neutral or happy has always served me well... Read more…
Minimizing Visual Confusion
“When a true pair is thrown, either close together with similar flight paths or crosses early in their flight path, are there some general practices to minimize the visual confusion? Move pick-up points? Hold well under targets? Any guidance would be appreciated." The biggest thing is to make your plan. Which target are you going to take first? Is it high? Is it low?I would take low first, if at all possible, then take... Read more…
Accepting the Visual Confusion
Brian set an especially deceptive set of targets at American Shooting Center one time, and I did a clinic on how to read targets. He had a pair coming from the left and the traps were real close together. But somehow, he figured out a way to make a target come off the trap and turn upside down and the other one was flat.I had a group there and they crossed and I said “See if you can keep your eye on one of those target... Read more…
Are You Comfortable? You’re Not Learning!
Are You Comfortable? You’re Not Learning!People are afraid to try things that they perceive is out of their comfort zone. And your learning occurs at the edge of your comfort zone. If you're comfortable, you're not learning. You need to make yourself uncomfortable.If you're going to shoot six boxes of shells, you need to have 15 shells that you shoot at two targets where you're really uncomfortable, hit them or miss th... Read more…
Training Your Working Memory
You’re very confident about the things that you've shot the most of. And you don't have to think as much about how you're going to shoot it because you've shot them 10,000 times.We as human beings like to be confident and comfortable when we're out shooting. Therefore, we typically will practice things that are well within our comfort zone. Because you don't have to recall a circuit that you've never done before. If yo... Read more…
