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Practice and Compete with the Same Intensity
Every shot you take in practice and in a tournament, big or small, has to be with a hundred percent commitment to the plan and your routines.When you’re congruent and in the zone, effort is optimized. You’re not stressed. You’re in control of the target. You stop trying and, through determination, you begin to do. Your timing takes over and early to the breakpoint becomes easy and the targets float. The plans become mo... Read more…
Repetition Under Pressure
You can practice all you want to, but you’re going to have to learn that from being in the game. You’re going to have to get in the game and you’re going to have to learn that while you’re in the game – and it’s a mindset.Sooner or later, you’ve got to get to the point where you realize what you’re doing now is not working. So, let’s try something different. And when you get into the top class, it’s how many times have... Read more…
What Are You Trying to Change?
The performance mindset is to break the target at all costs. But in order to get into the learning mindset, you need to stop trying to break the target. If we can get you to focus on the change, focus on what we want you to focus on, and not try to break the target, your brain understands the firing of the neurons so much more quickly. Once it understands it and gets them at least in the right order, we can adjust the ... Read more…
Skeet Chokes and the Feedback Loop
The first year that the World English Sporting came to our country, I was doing an experiment in the offseason leading up to it. I had a full in the top barrel and a modified in the bottom barrel, and I was shooting everything with mod and full. Everything.I got to the world shoot; Mick Howells won it. That year, he won the Seminole Cup, the Browning Briley, and the World English all within four weeks of each other. He... Read more…
Self-Correction for the Intermediate Shooter
What’s the solution for an intermediate shooter who’s shooting 65 to 79 or 80 percent?They're looking at the gun in the setup. They're trying to be perfect in the first 85% of the shot, especially in the hold point. There’s still too much muzzle awareness in the setup. They're trying to fix the shot at the end on the difficult presentation. They get jitters in tournaments. They're concerned about peer pressure. They go... Read more…
