Your Judgments Come from Your Expectations
Typically, your judgment of whether something is good or bad comes from your expectations. This is especially true when shooting a tournament. Under emotional pressure, people tend to revert to past negative memories and associations if they don’t affirmatively decide that they want to store their...
Testimonial: “When you are a beginner everyone is an expert”
When you are a beginner, everyone is an expert. I just had to share this testimonial from Stephen with all of you: I bought a sporting shotgun back in February of this year to learn to shoot skeet, and the progression would then be on to...
Humans have a 3:1 Negativity Bias
Psychological research has shown that humans have a 3:1 negativity bias as our default setting in storing memories. The brain naturally stores negative memories faster and stronger than positive ones. Neuroscience and evolution give us a simple explanation. It was much more important to remember danger...
Coaching Hour Transcripts Underway, August Travels and More!
We, meaning all of us in the office plus our new editor Nick, are trying to get the rest of the Coaching Hour transcriptions up on the OSP website. 2001 through 2014 are up and readable, but we have many months to go. But go look...
Become Present with your Senses
Through an awareness of your senses, your goal is to become present with your senses before you close the gun and call “pull.” By trial and error in practice, you determine which senses you as an individual can count on when everything is on the line....
Smiling Relaxes Tension!
Smiling relaxes tension in your jaw! Smiling with your shoulders back and stand-up posture releases DHEA into your system which is a good thing for performance. The idea is simple and powerful. When you’re present to something you can feel, hear, visualize, smell, or taste, you disengage...
Mastering Quartering Shots
Playing too close to the target will make you aware of how forgiving it really is to let it come. With our system, crossers are dead easy. It’s quartering targets you need to master. Spend some time there. Big deep shots followed by slow or fast...
Ashe County Wildlife Club
We just finished three days at Ashe County in the mountains of North Carolina where the high was 75 degrees. A lot nicer than the 100 degrees in Houston. This is a new club for us and the reception was great so they asked us to...
Coaching Hour – Working Through the Jitters – July 2018
Coaching Hour – July 2018 - EXCERPT Like history, topics on the Coaching Hour often repeat themselves. “The jitters” is a concept that we’ve discussed over the years, and we frequently return to certain topics with more refined insights. This excerpt from the July 2018 Coaching...
Oregon 2018
I’m on my way home from a great ten days with our granddaughter Avery in Oregon while her parents were gone. Our daughter Andrea turned 40 years old, so a little vacation is a reward for her and Tim. As for me, I get to spend...