Training in Cordoba
Well, I am sitting on the back porch of the lodge just east of Cordoba smelling the roses and watching the endless waves of doves fill the sky with the occasional pigeon and indigenous birds mixed in. We are down here shooting the new Shotkam II...
Nationals 2015
Shooting at Nationals It was another great year at the NSCA National Championship - or at least for most of it before the rain set in. We shot our main event on Monday and Tuesday when it was sunny and nice. We shot the small gauge and...
California and Montana September 2015
We went to Quail Point in northern California for our first time and it was so exciting for us as well as our students. They had had the regional shoot two weeks before and had left the course as it was and we were able to...
Clay Kill Shot Review
If you are not watching the Kill Shot Reviews twice the night before and once the morning of the practice or tournament, you are missing out on one of the newest and simplest ways to have high-level performances. It seems some of our shooters are doing...
Greeting Failure
The shooters who have the most filler in their brain are always the ones who learn the new concepts the quickest. They are able to shift the paradigms in their brains and fire the circuits in different patterns and have the best attitude about understanding...
Threshold Concepts
It seems that the more we do this, the more we understand what really stands in the way of becoming proficient with a shotgun on a moving target. The threshold concept of the ability to correctly and consistently move and mount the gun without looking at...
Tarleton U Kickoff Reflections
Monday and Tuesday we were at Tarleton University presenting our Knowledge Vault concepts and how they create perceptual-cognitive learning. For the next six weeks, the students will be doing the three-bullet drill and the flashlight drill. They will also be looking at the trap kill shot...
Seeing the Connection (Part Four)
If you feel like you are chasing the bird then you are behind it. You can't chase it from in front. In our game, you can be in front and behind at the same time. This leads to flinching and horrible visual anomalies! Keep your nose...
Seeing the Connection (Part Three)
It's what you do off the course that gets you there sooner. Brian said something in a clinic yesterday that stopped me in my tracks. "You must separate yourself from the gun." Brilliant! The number of times you mount the gun without looking at the bead, but...
Seeing the Connection (Part Two)
Your ability to focus is an evolutionary thing. The more of what you do that is automatic, the less you have to focus on what you are doing. The less you have to focus on what you are doing, the more focus you have available for...