Deep Deliberate Practice: Honing the Circuits
Practice is not about breaking the targets. It is about preloading the shot and deliberately firing the chunks sequentially. This makes it easier for the brain to anticipate ahead of the present and perform the skill without thinking. The most important and most wasted part of improvement is what and how...
Deliberate Practice: Perform the Skill Without Thinking
If you practice deliberately and with a detailed preload of the movie of the shot coming together before you close the gun and call "pull," then, through repetition, the brain can recognize the exact skill you are planning to use and can anticipate ahead of...
Developing Skill Through Deliberate Practice
When you have been shooting well in the past, nothing matters and everything is quiet between your ears. But how does this "not thinking" occur? When you are shooting well, it’s as if the brain already knows what it needs to do to hit the targets...
Negative Self-Talk While Shooting
Our research has shown us that almost every thought a shooter has while performing will eventually bring focus and attention back to the barrel and/or the lead. In some instances, the omnipresence of the seemingly uninterrupted stream of random thoughts turns into an avalanche of eventually...
No Argument in Your Brain
When shooting your round of 25/25 on skeet, there was no argument in your brain! This allows you to access your long-term memory and not think while the target is in the air. We see shooters who are trying to not see the barrel or trying to...
Self-Correction: The Big Step
Until every shot you take is first a prediction of when where and how you are about to break the next target, and then the shot mirrors that prediction, you are not building long-term memory or skill! What you see when shooting a moving target all...
We See It Every Day
When I am shooting well, things really look the same to me. Everything is in slow motion like the ShotKam videos in our Knowledge Vault! The futility of trying to see what someone else sees comes from those who are looking for the magic bullet. News...
Oh, To Know Then What We Know Now!
As I said in an earlier post, when I am shooting well and really in sync with the targets, everything looks almost the same and seems to be moving in slow motion. The mental pictures just come as a flashback when viewing the look targets....
Focus on Target
I have 95 to 98 percent of my focus - awareness, attention, thought, intent - on the target and enough awareness of the muzzle to know the target is behind where it pointed, and that the muzzle speed is the same as the target's speed....
The Secret of Change
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new! Many people would learn from their mistakes if they would stop making excuses! The quote of the day: "More people would learn from their mistakes if...