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Sharpening Your Anticipation Skills
When you react, you’re going fast. When you anticipate, you’re going slow.What do we want you to do? We want you to get to the breakpoint early so that in effect slows the bird down so you can control the bird. Anything that has to happen precisely can happen in slow motion rather than happening with the motion speeding up.That’s probably the biggest difference between being early in the breakpoint and timing the inser... Read more…
Anticipation and Focus Ratios
Fear is only in the present or in the past. It cannot exist in the future. It takes you there, but it’s not there. It’s your choice. Fear is a conscious reaction to a perceived set of circumstances.Trying not to check is trying to change the result. Think about this. The result is a consequence of the approach. You’re either going to be reacting or anticipating. It’s your ability to have been there enough times that al... Read more…
The Evolution of Your Self-Correction
Your correction routine is going to evolve. A few years ago when we changed our approach from getting you to hit the targets to teaching yourself to self-correct, we began to realize that just looking harder at the front of the target was not the correction that would work for the majority of shooters most of the time. Occasionally, but not most of the time.Your ability to self-correct comes from the elimination of var... Read more…
Turning Fear Into a Motivator
You can turn your fear into a motivator. That’s what I’m trying to do. Every time I come to an impasse and I know fear is there, I can feel it. I know that there’s something good getting ready to happen. There’s something good on the other side of that fear if I will let myself go on through that waterfall.You can’t overcome that fear without facing it or without doing it.You can rehearse the speech as many times as yo... Read more…
Practicing Before Nationals - Recall
So, let’s talk a little bit about how we practiced the three times we had time to practice leading up to going to the actual tournament.In our research, we have determined that when we shoot different shots (especially in sporting) many shooters think that they are using the same circuit – just with different timing and speed. But once again, research has proven that they are not.Upon viewing each shot in a pair on eac... Read more…
