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Don’t Confuse Your Subconscious!
Emotional post-shot routines define success as making us happy. Non-emotional reactions to success confuse the subconscious. It is not sure whether it should continue breaking the target or not because its job is to make us happy.The greater amount of emotional happiness in our post-shot routines, the clearer the pathway to happiness, and the more the subconscious understands what we’re asking it to do. But we’ve got t... Read more…
Peripheral Acceptance
We all have a problem letting that gun go, and it’s periphery acceptance. There’s no doubt about that.When you exceed your peripheral acceptance, your focus ratio goes straight down the hole. But it seems as though looking behind the gun and making and holding onto the shot until you feel like everything is locked up and going the same speed makes it easier for people to maintain their focus ratio and trust the result.... Read more…
Cue, Response, Reward
Habits are built this way: cue, response, and reward. The cue is a trigger for the automatic response to start. The response is the behavior itself, and the reward tells our brain whether we should store this habit for future use or not.Toothpaste is a good example. When no one brushed their teeth, the inventor of toothpaste thought he could make a killing. Just getting rid of the film on our teeth was not enough. The ... Read more…
Don’t Neglect Nutrition and Sleep
You might not think of shotgun shooting as a physically strenuous sport. Now, if you’re an E-class shooter, shotgun shooting is probably not a very strenuous sport. But when you get into the master class competitions and you’ve got to be on cue at a certain level, there are a lot of other things that go into allowing you to have that zone experience.Something that you might want to consider is looking at your food inta... Read more…
The Post-Shot Routine and Happiness
When you visualize what the shot will look like (not necessarily the lead but what the end picture is going to look like) you know you’re going to be looking at that bird away from that gun.Being able to visualize exactly what that shot is going to look like according to the techniques you’re using makes the emotional part of the post-shot routine more effective. The better the visualization in the pre-shot routine, th... Read more…
