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Trusting Your Sight Picture Inventory
In the beginning, it will be difficult for you to commit to the shot as predicted because of your desire to break the target instead of executing the prediction to see if the prediction was correct. When you begin to train this way - by committing to the shot the way you want it to come together via your prediction - you are building an inventory of sight pictures that are stored in your long-term memory and will be av... Read more…
Don't Go Down the Negative Road
You can't be mediocre and then show up at the tournament on Sunday and be excellent. Excellence is a way of life. You gotta strive to be excellent at everything. This doesn't mean you're going to be perfect at it. You can give it all to God and say, "I trust you, I'm going to do what I can do. And if there's something you need me to do, you need to let me know." There are a lot of ways you can deal with that, and it's ... Read more…
Peak Performance, Repetition and Failure
Peak performance, regardless of level, is still peak performance. And in the beginning, performance in front of others with an unknown outcome brings about all sorts of fears of the unknown. This situation feeds your brain with phrases and feelings that make little sense away from the situation, but when you’re facing the situation for the first few times they are real to you.Being able to perform, especially in front ... Read more…
Mastering at Least Two Trajectories
There are six basic target trajectories: left-to-right and right-to-left crossing and quartering, and targets going up and falling. And until you master at least two, you will not experience much consistency or confidence in your practice or tournaments.So, what do we mean when we say master a trajectory? Here is where the work begins. Not only is it lonely, but time-consuming. Some would say expensive, but then no one... Read more…
Getting Out of the Evaluation Quagmire
There have been hundreds of times in the last 35 years when I've had a really good shooter who's trying to learn a new move. He'll be struggling and hit it three or four times.And here's the problem: he thinks he has it. He’s gone to evaluating. He jumps into the evaluation quagmire, and all of a sudden, he couldn't hit the ground if he fell down.I'll say, “Give me your gun. Walk over there to that tree. You see that? ... Read more…
