The Post-Shot Habit

The ability to visualize in detail and execute the preloaded visual process in practice to see if it was correct is where most shooters fail to really get better and develop the mental side of their games.

How well you’re able to visualize how and where you want your brain to take the next shot is 100 percent determined by how many times, after you have executed a plan and broken the target, you immediately replayed what happened as the shot came together!

We call this the post-shot routine. It begins as a ritual and through stubborn repetition eventually turns into a habit that happens without you thinking about it.

When you are in the zone, you are operating on your habits. All of them were forced rituals in the beginning and they turned into habits through stubborn repetition. The better your habits, the better you will perform without thinking. When something is a habit, it happens the same way over and over without you having to think about what you are doing.

So, here is the part of performance no one wants to face because it will force a change aboåut how you view yourself. Few people out there will allow themselves to change how they react to what goes on around them.