How to Turn a Negative into a Positive
If you are competitive in skeet or sporting clays, eventually you’re going to have one of those days where you could not put a three-word sentence together and your game is as mixed up as a soccer game with six-year-olds with three balls on the...
The Unique Challenges of Wingshooting
Game shooting offers its own unique challenges when compared to clay shooting, not the least of which is that the game bird has a brain and can change its line, speed, and angle with a mere flick of a feather on a wing or tail....
Visualization in Sporting Clays vs Trap and Skeet
In sporting, the ability to visualize in detail the movie of the shots you are about to ask your brain to create is critical. But it’s increasingly more difficult due to presentation being different from shoot to shoot, day to day, and even morning to...
Go Out and Have an Honest Practice Routine
Push yourself to the limit and make a commitment that when you get to the gun club, you're going to go out and practice, and start working on specific issues. And if you can't do it, you need to turn around and go home. You...
All the “Be Sure”s
Positive soundalikes: they sound positive, but they're a way for your brain to say, “Hang on, now, be careful. You're down three. Be careful. Come on now, be sure now. Be sure you see the target. Be sure you're in front of it. Be sure…” All...
When You’re Out of Sync
I'm sure you've all experienced times when your synchronization and flow between your hands and body are gone. And try as you may, your body is all out of sync. Whenever you feel your body all out of sync, that's a sign that you've probably sped...
The Power of Affirmation
If you hear it, you must instantly turn the phrase around and make it a positive affirmation for you. This will take some real work on your behalf. But after a week or so, it will turn into a fun game and after 25 to...
Commitment to Your Plan
You must become totally committed to how and where the shot you're about to take will come together - both in practice, and on game day. But you've got to be committed to doing it like you planned, as opposed to committed to saying you're going...
Be Lethal on Easy Shots
Do you want to get out of the C-Class plateau? Then learn how to be absolutely lethal within 25 yards. If you're going to shoot tournaments, it's not the long stuff that kills you: it's the stuff that's within the 20-to-25-yard mark. If you want to...
Are You Comfortable? You’re Not Learning!
People are afraid to try things that they perceive is out of their comfort zone. And your learning occurs at the edge of your comfort zone. If you're comfortable, you're not learning. You need to make yourself uncomfortable. If you're going to shoot six boxes of...