Blind Spots When Shooting Pairs
If the targets are hard to see due to lighting or background conditions, find a spot that's either on the target line or close to it. And after killing the first bird, get your eyes there and keep them still, so that they will go...
Reading Pairs
When you're looking between the birds of the pair, you'll understand just how much time you really have to shoot the pair, which will eliminate the hurry on the first bird or the first pair. And eventually will get you more X’s. Never miss a target...
Prediction and Execution
A success or a failure without a prediction never makes its way to the long-term memory. It's absolutely wasted. It's the prediction and the execution of the prediction that allows you to commit to do a certain thing on that target. If you hit it, it's...
Confident – But Not Overconfident
"If we can accept that having some level of expectation is a normal and natural byproduct of training and competition, how do we best manage and deal with it?" Well, you always go into a practice or tournament with some kind of expectation. But you can't...
Tying Up Both Sides of the Brain
I had a lesson with a 70-year-old guy who had been taking lessons from the young guns - trying to pull away, trying to insert, trying to match speeds then pull away, all manner of things at the end of the shot. When he hit it...
The Limits of Your Working Memory
Your working memory is very limited in how many things it can handle at one time. It can't handle more than three to four things synchronously at one time. When more things enter the workspace, it's like having an iPhone with 33 apps that are...
Learning to Shoot in the Wind and Rain
If you want to become a good competitive shooter, just like practicing your gun mount, you got to put a number on your back and get in the game. The first year in master class, shoot every event at every tournament you can afford timewise and...
Be Specific About Your Shooting Goals
Goals are very personal. How you look at things, how you name them, and the value you draw from them are also very personal things. In some of the emails I've gotten from the guys who are going to be on tonight, they're all saying...
How Shooters’ Perception Evolves
Let’s get back to the evolution of perceptions shooters go through as they gain more and more experience in deliberate practice and shooting tournaments. Everyone has a sequence in their brain that has been fired many times to point at something they are looking at. When...
Shooting Without Thinking
We think it would be good to talk about one more step in the performance part of sporting clays that not many of you have considered. When you look at a target for the first time, your long-term memory sees it and instantly searches the inventory...