What Trying Too Hard Reveals
We see shooters becoming someone other than who they are when they try too hard on game day. That really reveals how much fear is present, which creates evaluation while performing. In turn, that creates muzzle awareness in the shot in practice, and even more on...
Teaching in the Rain
Brian, Gil and I are here at 74 Ranch south of San Antonio, Texas doing our 2nd Advance School. We are all here and have had a ball introducing new ideas and ways to improve everyone's game. It's a great venue as the students get a different instructor each...
Skill Needs to Become a Habit
Getting better is about building habits. Nothing is a skill until it is a habit. We see this in many different places along the journey as you complete the habit-building along the way. Each and every thing you do on game day must be a habit...
Shoot as Many Tournaments as You Can
Shooting as many tournaments as possible is so important, regardless of outcome. You just got to go shoot. You have to have shot so many tournaments that shooting another one is just like having a hamburger or driving a car. Your experience allows for you to...
You Can’t Be Someone Else
You can’t be someone else. If you become someone else, you can no longer become you. This is where the struggle is. Imagine what your brain is thinking as you go to the shoot and through expectation, you begin to put pressure on yourself to perform. Instead of...
How Much Have You Shot as Yourself?
It is not as much how well you can shoot, but how many times you have shot well while being yourself. That’s what really matters. This could be the greatest breakthrough I have had in coaching performance with a shotgun… or in life itself....
Setbacks and Your Attitude
Your attitude in practice is so very important in building a game. And that is what you are doing: you are building a game. Setbacks are determined by your attitude about them, not what they really are. The problem is not that there are problems; the problem...
2017 Safari International Club Conventions
We’re returning from the Safari International Club Convention where we had two great seminars. We are the only folks that get a two-hour seminar and we always run overtime because there are so many questions to be asked and answered. Shotgun Mythology Debunked It is always amazing to...
“Damn, this works!”
I’m sitting here at South Florida Shooting Club watching it rain on a cold Sunday. We have had a great few days of teaching and even some time to shoot the ShotKam for the website. We had so many students that Brian came with us...
Building Your Competition Persona
It occurs to me today the reason why trying too hard or trying harder doesn’t work: You must build a persona of who you are in competition to have a peak performance. ...