Keep Standing
"Regardless of how many times you are knocked down, keep standing!" "If you don't know where you're going, you might end up someplace else." - Yogi Berra "No improvement happens without change. For every change, there is a price. The value is in the commitment!" - Vicki Ash KEEP STANDING Unless you reach for something beyond...
Never a Wrong Time to do the Right Thing!
"Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity. Pride is the virtue of a foolish person." - Rick Rigsby "You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence should be a habit, not an act." - Aristotle Wisdom can come to you in the most unusual of places...
True Measure of a Person
Failure is inevitable and is the most feared confrontation of most people's lives. But at the same time, it is a necessary part of skill-building. I said something the other day in a way that I have never said before. "When correcting from a failure, you are...
Wisdom Through Failure
Wisdom can come to you in the most unusual of places - a lot of times through failure! When you combine wisdom with optimism, you can get the perfect storm of rapid skill development because you finally realize that failing is the key that opens the...
Three Myths of Skill Building
In studying skill-building we have come across something that we think you will find interesting as we did. The Three Myths of Skill-Building "Skill is Genetic." "She is a natural." "He was just born with a natural ability that few possess." While being tall can be an advantage in...
The Value of Practice & Training
The true value of practice and training is that they allow you to train your brain to anticipate farther and farther into the future. Repetition begins the process and detailed correction allows for it to improve. The most skillful person in the room is the one...
You Live in the Past!
You don’t know this because your brain lies to you and then covers up the lies, which is a good thing. If your brain didn’t fudge reality, you wouldn’t be able to hit a baseball, drive a car, or even carry on a conversation. It takes...
Learn From Your Own Failures
We temper our corrections with all of the things about the shooter in mind. This ability must be learned and honed from years of experience being wrong over and over again. Good judgment comes from bad judgment...
Why Pro Shooters Don’t Make Great Coaches
Why don't pro shooters make great coaches? They invariably try to get you to do and see what they do and see when they shoot. They believe that you can do it, but you can’t. More often than not, their correction for you is what their...
Don’t Let Your Opponent Outwork You!
You coach a beginner, encourage an intermediate, and share ideas with an advanced shooter. The shooters you are talking about are only missing two to six targets per 100, and the smart ones are still seeing their coaches regularly, which is how they got to be...