Confidence and Performance
Breakpoints create confidence. Transitions control performance! When you can shoot breakpoints at will, you become confident. And you must do this in practice. Once you achieve it, the quality of your transitions from the first target to the second controls your performance! This is why singles practice is...
It’s a Movie, Not a Snapshot!
I said something yesterday that I've never said before. We use the term "sight picture" to describe where our eyes are when we take the shot. This leads people to look for a snapshot, which makes them poke at the end of the shot. Although I...
What It Takes To Change Your Brain’s Pattern After Age 25
This is an interesting piece by Vivian Giang. "In most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again." That quote was made famous by Harvard psychologist William James in his 1890 book The Principles of Psychology, and...
How the Brain Anticipates
We're coming back from Camanche Hills Sporting Clays after three days of coaching and we're looking forward to going to the bay to fish for a couple of days. While in California, I read a recent study on how the brain is constantly anticipating ahead of...
Revelation!
Accessing the Filler in Your Brain I just read a recent study about the brain is constantly anticipating ahead of where we are. It will compensate for tiny differences in timing input and output to make things synchronous - even though they are not. For example, I...
Building Filler
This brings a new face to practice. Rather than trying to memorize the move, you train the move and build filler. So when you perform, if you are trying to remember what to do, you are not using filler. In fact, you're programming bad filler. Thinking while...
The Subconscious Anticipation Circuit
A Lesson From the Moving Sidewalk We're in the airport today leaving for Fort Myers, Florida. After we got through security and walked to the moving sidewalks, we were chatting away. And as we took the first step onto the moving sidewalk, I almost fell forward! My...
After Advance School
Lessons from the Advance School Well, I have been resting for a week after four straight weeks at 74 Ranch. The Advance Classes were great this year. We got all to shoot targets at 80-100 yards. It's amazing how when you become more consistent at distance, it...
The Filler Part of the Brain (Part Two)
Here's why it eventually becomes so important to be honest with yourself. Your choice is to be constantly building filler - good filler, or some good and some bad. It's not how well you shoot that determines how good you get. The way you handle adversity...
The Filler Part of the Brain (Part One)
In the first Advance Class last week, I began to understand more about the brain's ability to fill in the stuff that is filed in its automaticity part. This is how the brain is deceived. It's not what you are focusing on that is part of...