Gun Fit and Cheek Pressure
We have learned a lot about gun fit and cheek pressure over the past 25 years as professional coaches, the previous 17 years as competitive skeet shooters, and then as sporting clays competitors since 1983. We also have heard the theories about the iris sitting on...
Deliberate Practice
The Coaching Hour is tonight and we will be beginning a discussion on “deliberate practice” and its effect on higher levels of performance. Last month we began this discussion and instead of an hour, it went an hour and a half. We expect tonight to be...
NSSF Shares OSP Tips on Social Media
We are just back from the National Shooting Sports Foundation where Brian, Vicki, and I did some tips that NSSF will be putting up on all mediums - Facebook, Twitter, etc. Some of them were the longer tips like I have done in the past, but...
Coaching Hour in Knowledge Vault
Perhaps the most overlooked section of the Knowledge Vault is Coaching Hours! We have been doing a one-hour conference call every month since November 2001 and they are all in the section. First, listen to or read March 2015 to understand what skill is and how...
Patterning Your Shotgun and Having a Quiet Eye
On our most recent Coaching Hour, we talked about patterning your shotgun first to make sure that the barrels are regulated correctly and then for the point of impact. We also talked about Hurricane Harvey and how we are doing, as well as having a...
Vision Evolves as You Train
Be sure to check out the August 2017 Coaching Hour podcast where we talk about how your vision evolves as you train and your game progresses. We are just back from Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays in Pennsylvania and we had a great clinic with a lot...
Visualize in Detail
The top shooters never have to “check the beads” to see if they are lined up. Their mount is perfect every time, whether shooting gun up or down. Keeping their eyes on the target is a given and the muzzle is always in the periphery. They...
Alter Human Behavior As It Is Happening!
As you become skillful, you enable the anticipation circuit in your brain to correct something in the shot you have done that will cause a miss while the shot is happening and before the shot is taken. This is when the zone becomes a part of...
Anticipation
Your anticipation circuit in your brain can anticipate ahead of where you are. And it is in constant use while you are awake. The better you are at something, the farther in front of where you are the brain can anticipate. This circuit has the ability...
We Never Grow Up…
We never really grow up; we just learn how to act in public!...