Pushing Beyond the Limits
What Fear Does to You Just remember, fear in any non-life-threatening situation has never done you any good. When the fear emotion enters the computer, three things happen: Your trunk muscles freeze up, your hands speed up, and your eyes lose the ability to fixate. And you...
Practice is Different to Different People
Here's something you might want to consider. I will use our coaching experience as an example. We don't need to practice coaching anymore. But that does not mean that we stop learning. Younger shooters or shooters who have been competitive for 15-20 years don't have to practice...
Observations on Blocked vs Random Practice
Blocked practice yields a high percentage of success during practice. But on game day it falls apart, the research shows. Random practice, while yielding fewer broken targets as you practice, will hold up more on game day and yield higher scores. If you want to practice...
No One Just “Has It”
No one just "has it." There is no "it." Unless the "it" you're talking about is hard work and time on targets, coupled with a passion to not accept anything less than your best. And always having the drive to push yourself beyond what you already...
The Road to Greatness
Being great at anything is a lonely road. It evolves with a lot of time honing and re-honing your fundamentals until you can depend on them. You are really building a circuit in the brain. The more you do it, the better it becomes because you...
Overcoming Fear
Regardless of the arena, the one thing you must overcome is fear. The only way you overcome fear is to become competent. And when you become competent you become confident. When you are confident, you know you can do it - not because you know the...
Competence Creates the Zone
Nothing creates the zone like competence. Competence first in shooting fundamentals and second in competing. Said another way, you must first learn to shoot. Then and only then can you learn how to compete. They are both learned skills....
The Value of Practice
The most unused technique in this game is quality practice with a purpose and goal. Our research shows that the reason is that people don't understand what practice is for. This is why they don't understand how to practice. Your ability to hit a moving target successfully...
The Number One Reason for Missing!
The number one reason for missed targets is the aiming perception causing the target to be seen down the barrel or not far enough behind the barrel for any number of reasons. The more you understand this, the more you can get used to the picture...