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 variables in your baseline approach and the consistency of your baseline approach fundamentals. But this comes as an evolution in time and experience.

Same speed at the end was the first really big breakthrough that we had for consistency, and it’s the common denominator that allows for immediate correction. Until you have repeated your move and mount so that your brain has enough consistent repetitions that enable you to produce it with enough consistency without thinking about it, your self-correction will be hit or miss at best.

When you list all the things that can cause you to miss, it’s unending. The most frequent is a lack of a clear, distinct visual plan of where and how you want the target shot. I continue to be amazed at how quickly the brain can pick up the moves we are now doing and teaching, especially the challenge move.

Personally, I think all three of us have a much clearer understanding of the working memory, and how so many things confuse the working memory. As a beginning shooter, your working memory is shot, because you’ve crowded the workspace.

This is an excerpt from the May 2021 Coaching Hour podcast. You can listen to it and read a written transcript, along with more than 20 years of archived episodes with your Knowledge Vault membership.