The Limits of Working Memory
Working memory is limited in duration and capacity. It can hold on to things for about 10 to 20 seconds if you don't do something with them. And there can be no more than four things in the working space at any one time. One of...
How Do You Start Your Shooting Year?
When you begin your new year or come back from your break, it’s important that you write down what kind of targets you practiced; how many, the frequency of practice, and the duration of practice. Whatever you did last year, if it worked out, you ought...
Being Prepared for a Variety of Conditions
There are a couple of different kinds of practice. There’s conditioning practice like when you go to the gym and work out and run to stay slim and fit, and it could be your gun mount practice. It could be the three-bullet drill, playing with...
Being Competitive in Master Class
"The last year and a half have been relatively easy for me to goal set - punch into A, then punch into AA. Now my short-term goal is master class. But I'm trying to figure out a long-term goal. I want to end up competitive...
Practice and Compete with the Same Intensity
Every shot you take in practice and in a tournament, big or small, has to be with a hundred percent commitment to the plan and your routines. When you’re congruent and in the zone, effort is optimized. You’re not stressed. You’re in control of the target....
Skeet Chokes and the Feedback Loop
The first year that the World English Sporting came to our country, I was doing an experiment in the offseason leading up to it. I had a full in the top barrel and a modified in the bottom barrel, and I was shooting everything with...
Visual Pathways
Science has proven that the visual pathway processes the lead and the line data of the moving object. In fact, the visual system of the brain actually anticipates where the object is going to be even though the retina sees it to where it is. That...
Learning to Compete in Master Class
As you work your way up through the classes you’re actually learning to shoot; but once you punch into master class, you have to really learn how to compete. As you’re going along doing your best to compete and learning to compete, one of the reasons...
Sharpening Your Anticipation Skills
When you react, you’re going fast. When you anticipate, you’re going slow. What do we want you to do? We want you to get to the breakpoint early so that in effect slows the bird down so you can control the bird. Anything that has to...
Turning Fear Into a Motivator
You can turn your fear into a motivator. That’s what I’m trying to do. Every time I come to an impasse and I know fear is there, I can feel it. I know that there’s something good getting ready to happen. There’s something good on...