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Looking at Your Top and Bottom Scores
You’re not always going to bring your “A” game to the show. As hard as you try, you’re not always going to do that. I went to the Beretta World Championships in 1987 and was fortunate enough to spend probably 45 minutes under a tent while it was raining.I talked to the move/mount/shoot guy, Barry Simpson, about that. “How often when you go to a big shoot do you have your A game?” I asked. He said, “I’m lucky if I have ... Read more…
What Prevents You from Self-Correcting?
These are things that keep people from being able to self-correct:- Muzzle awareness. You need to begin to recognize when you look at the barrel in the setup, which leads to awareness in the shot.- Too much cheek pressure and too much grip pressure. Both of those things are bonded at the hip. You can't have soft hands and a hard cheek on the gun. And if you have hard hands on the gun, eventually you're going to want to... Read more…
The Timing Drill
The timing drill is done on a skeet field.You go out to station eight and take three or four steps back towards station four and face the center stake. The gun hold point is over toward the high house, and the focal point is into the low house. You call “pull” and you throw only low houses.When the bird comes out, you’re going to start mounting the gun and you’re going to watch the bird as an incomer, watch it cross th... Read more…
The Limits of Working Memory
Working memory is limited in duration and capacity. It can hold on to things for about 10 to 20 seconds if you don't do something with them. And there can be no more than four things in the working space at any one time.One of the interesting things in studying working memory is that back in the '50s, the belief was that a person could hold seven digits in their short-term memory long enough to dial a phone, which is w... Read more…
Merging
Imagine what your car would be doing if you merged in front of the car like your gun barrel merges in front of a target.When I tell people this and they finally get it, they begin laughing. But what we’re teaching you to do is to actually merge that gun in front of that target. However, instead of coming from too close to the target and pushing out, it’s more letting the target come to you, and you use that merging cir... Read more…
