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What Caused the Errors?
Deciding what caused the errors is the most critical part of self-evaluation. That’s one of the unique things about our system. Once you start working on being really smooth, once you’re early in the breakpoint, you can better evaluate why you missed.When we show our students how to be early in the breakpoint, they are absolutely blown away.Because we have taken the excess movements out of your game and left you with m... Read more…
Talent vs. Skill
Talent is the ability to anticipate into the future without fear. Skill is the ability to do what you do subconsciously.Let’s use a fishing metaphor, shall we?Your subconscious skills are running the boat, checking the wind, and setting up a line where you’re going to use a shoulder motor where you can control the boat. Your skill is flipping that jig in right where you want it.Your skill is knowing what to do with tha... Read more…
Fear is a Precursor to Courage
Fear always pulls the gun into the picture. Fear always puts the gun between the eyes and the bird.“I have a hard time admitting that I was afraid,” a student once told us. “But the more I thought about it, it is fear. I’d never really thought about it as fear. I always call it being careful or making sure.”The root cause is fear, and fear pulls your ability to anticipate from out in the future to right back where you ... Read more…
Hard Skills – Moving and Mounting
Hard skills are the skills that you have to have a hundred percent correct all the time. It would be a fisherman’s ability to drop a jig not only in the cup but have the jig go on a flight pattern so that it just barely touches the water as opposed to coming from four feet straight down, stopping the spool and just doing a big kerplunk. It’s just the little finesse things that he would want to do.The biggest hard skill... Read more…
Competition - Win or Learn
The competition isn’t a win-or-lose thing. The competition is an opportunity for you to lay it all out there on the line and keep giving it a hundred percent.At the end of the competition, go back and evaluate what happened, what targets were you comfortable on, what targets were you not comfortable on, and what were they (right-to-left, left-to-right, long, short, curling, quartering). It doesn’t matter what they were... Read more…
