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Fear is a Funny Thing
Shooting with confidence and trust is a whole new and wonderful way to play our game.It’s very typical to learn conscious sight pictures, and one day hopefully you’ll be able to trust them. But if you learn to trust from the beginning without the fear of missing, learning comes more rapidly and you learn mechanics and performance at the same time, and you will be able to marvel at the ability of your unconscious comput... Read more…
Expectations and Honesty
Expectations should be about the time that you put in and being honest with yourself. Being honest with yourself is what it's all about. When you're in the cage, it's just you and the target.These are some questions you can ask yourself:“Are you good enough to win? Have you put in your time? Are you able to get in the stand and not think? Are you confident enough in your routine to where if it doesn't work, you change ... Read more…
The Edges of Your Ability
Anything contrary to what we believe is easily dismissed as not believable.Your performance is the byproduct of your concepts, and the learning threshold is the summit of your current abilities. Your learning threshold, where you’re going to begin to learn, is at the edges of your ability. This is where the “aha” breakthroughs occur. It’s where the head pops come out.When you constantly push yourself beyond your curren... Read more…
Honing Your Self-Talk
Most of the time self-talk is just babble. It’s just going on and on and on.There are times and places for self-talk, but most of the stuff that we hear on the sporting clays course is a justification to people around you that you know why you missed and you’re not stupid.But that babbling ends up making you look really stupid to people who know what they’re doing.When Jeff, one of our students, had an incredible round... Read more…
Letting Go and Setting Goals
If you’re competing to have a very open look at who you are and your abilities, then you have to admit to yourself that when you go to a competition you have to let go of caring about how you shoot. You’ve got to let go of caring about what your score is.You have to do your best on every shot regardless of results. At the end of it, let the people you’ve been paying to keep score keep the score. If you win, fine. If yo... Read more…
