The Brain Can Anticipate Farther and Farther
When performing a skill at higher and higher levels, the brain can anticipate farther and farther out in front of where you are. You actually know more but are focusing on fewer and fewer things. Your mind is quiet because you are using both sides of...
Phoenix is HOT in September!
Brian and I got away from the rain in Houston and into the heat in Phoenix… and I mean the heat. It was 110 degrees at least each day, and we got through it. Wow, it was so hot! But it was a dry heat… The takeaway...
The Brain Can Recognize the Exact Skill
If you practice deliberately and with a detailed preload of the movie of the shot coming together before you close the gun and call “pull,” the brain can recognize the exact skill you are planning to use through repetition. And it can anticipate ahead of every...
Taking Your Game From 70 to 90
Check out the March 2017 Coaching Hour Podcast on the Knowledge Vault: “Taking your game from 70-90” The first of a six-part series. Check it out!...
Bolivia – Pennsylvania – Phoenix!
Sorry to be so late with another blog, but things have been really busy here. We went to Bolivia to a beautiful lodge and shot doves and pigeons for four days. Gil had gone last year when I was kid-sitting in Oregon and was so impressed...
Dropping Shots Video – Results!
After just watching the Dropping Shots video in the shot simulator in Knowledge Vault this is the result: Hi Gil, I went to my local club today and shot dropping shots after watching your dropping shots videos many times. I was amazed at how clearer the...
Focusing on Process with No Practice
Focusing on the process with no practice, working a shoot, and still shooting great! This just in from J. B: So, I really haven't had a chance to do much more than practice a little, as we were focused on final preparations to host the Kentucky SC...
Watching Kill Shot Reviews Leads to Better Scores
Shooters who are watching the Clay Kill Shot Reviews before they practice and/or shoot tournaments are shooting better and more consistent scores. Vicki and Gil, Well, you did it for me again. First, I took some extra time on KSRs this week, using a trick that helps...
If You Are Thinking, You Are Stinking
If you are thinking, you are stinking. All thoughts have their origins in evaluating something. So when you find yourself evaluating anything, you are using short-term memory and the conversation will begin. When you are in the zone, nothing matters. But when you are not, everything matters....
Deliberate Practice Turns Into Mental Representation
As you develop a skill through deliberate practice, you repeat the component parts of the skill enough times through repetition so that the brain chunks together all of the parts in the sequence. It eventually turns into a mental representation. At that point, the brain can...