Determination to Conquer
The journey is moving through the habit, building concepts with determination to conquer them, not shoot well. Eventually, it’s more important to just go shoot and become yourself, regardless of whether it’s at practice or a tournament. Remember, your brain is accustomed to running your body based...
Like Brushing Your Teeth
Everything you do on game day has got to become like brushing your teeth! In the beginning, you could not even find your mouth. Now you can stick your foot in it without even trying! Then you became fascinated with your reflection in the mirror and missed...
What Trying Too Hard Reveals
We see shooters becoming someone other than who they are when they try too hard on game day. That really reveals how much fear is present, which creates evaluation while performing. In turn, that creates muzzle awareness in the shot in practice, and even more on...
Skill Needs to Become a Habit
Getting better is about building habits. Nothing is a skill until it is a habit. We see this in many different places along the journey as you complete the habit-building along the way. Each and every thing you do on game day must be a habit...
Shoot as Many Tournaments as You Can
Shooting as many tournaments as possible is so important, regardless of outcome. You just got to go shoot. You have to have shot so many tournaments that shooting another one is just like having a hamburger or driving a car. Your experience allows for you to...
You Can’t Be Someone Else
You can’t be someone else. If you become someone else, you can no longer become you. This is where the struggle is. Imagine what your brain is thinking as you go to the shoot and through expectation, you begin to put pressure on yourself to perform. Instead of...
How Much Have You Shot as Yourself?
It is not as much how well you can shoot, but how many times you have shot well while being yourself. That’s what really matters. This could be the greatest breakthrough I have had in coaching performance with a shotgun… or in life itself....
Setbacks and Your Attitude
Your attitude in practice is so very important in building a game. And that is what you are doing: you are building a game. Setbacks are determined by your attitude about them, not what they really are. The problem is not that there are problems; the problem...
Building Your Competition Persona
It occurs to me today the reason why trying too hard or trying harder doesn’t work: You must build a persona of who you are in competition to have a peak performance. ...
No Quick Fix to Consistency
As we travel the country, we see over and over that the majority of shooters still think that getting the lead right will lead to more consistency. Then some say it’s “the six inches between their ears” that keeps them from progressing. Others say “I’m really...