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Force the Brain Out of its Comfort Zone
Most people practice in their short-term memory, but you’ve got to force the brain out of its comfort zone to put together a new circuit. The more you do that, the better it becomes at recall.So, when you see a pair or a target you've never seen before, it can go to things that were similar, and put a file together and hand it off to the working memory and you got a better than average shot of hitting that bird. But no... Read more…
Force Your Brain to Recall in Practice
If you're not forcing your brain to recall, and put together different circuits, you're not preparing for game day.When you walk into a sporting station, you've never seen it before. You've seen things that are similar to it, but you've never seen it before. The working memory sees it, and hands it off to the long-term memory. The long-term memory puts the file together and hands it back off to the working memory. Okay... Read more…
How Lethal Our System Is
You can never put the gun consistently further in front of the target than you are comfortable with. The reason you were able to do it in the first shot was because there was no expectation. You just looked at the target and let the gun go and it went out there and you pulled the trigger, and when the target blew up, you saw where it was.One of the reasons our system is so lethal is we're comfortable seeing the bird a ... Read more…
Practicing Slower Moves
I had a student who was really good out to about 30 to 35 yards, but when a target was any further than that, he wasn’t so good.“Okay, tell me what kind of targets are giving you problems,” I said.“If they're fast, I can hammer ‘em, and if they’re close, I can hammer ‘em,” he said. “But if they're off-speed, or if they're long, I can't buy 'em.”“Well, the problem you're describing to me is someone who doesn't have a mo... Read more…
Assessing Your Own Performance
How far you're able to mount the gun in front of the bird is really determined by how many times you've mounted it out there. It's more determined by how many times you've mounted it out there recently, because if you lay off and don't shoot very much, the distance in front of the bird that you're comfortable with shrinks.When you go out, you have to either assess your last performance, or you need to assess last year.... Read more…
