Responding to a Compliment
When you shoot well and you get a compliment you should always attach your gratitude to that person. First, you have to look them in the eye and say, “Thank you for noticing." And it needs to be sincere. We've always tried to help people...
Mental Toughness and Habits
Mental toughness is not about how you think, it's about what you think. But more importantly, it's about how many times you thought it in the same way such that you are, when you're in the zone, you are operating on your habits. When something...
Trusting Your Sight Picture Inventory
In the beginning, it will be difficult for you to commit to the shot as predicted because of your desire to break the target instead of executing the prediction to see if the prediction was correct. When you begin to train this way - by...
Mastering at Least Two Trajectories
There are six basic target trajectories: left-to-right and right-to-left crossing and quartering, and targets going up and falling. And until you master at least two, you will not experience much consistency or confidence in your practice or tournaments. So, what do we mean when we say...
Training the New Sequence
Nobody comes out of the womb predisposed to be able to shoot a shotgun at moving targets without experiencing confusion. We’re talking about the confusion of looking at a target and getting the gun muzzle in front of it while matching speed and taking the...
Consistent Work on Your Fundamentals
We ran across an interesting thought not long ago. If you do something to improve your shooting game for 15 minutes a day every day for a year, you will be better than 95 percent of the people out there. This brings us back to the...
Commitment to Deliberate Repetition
The magic shooters are looking for is in the work they are not willing to do! There is a difference between comment and commitment, and nothing could illustrate it better than the example we just shared above. When your brain understands through repetition what it really looks...
Mastering a Trajectory
New shooters don’t have the shot inventory to properly visualize how and where they want the shot to come together, or they have been chasing all the targets down and trying to fix the shot at the end. Either way, if the shooter is successful, it...
Fear from a Lack of Plan
You can see people walk up to a stand, and they are scared to death to get ready to shoot that target. They don't have a plan of what they're going to do with the targets. And you can just see them when they're gripping...
How Much Detail in Your Routine?
How detailed should your routine be once you’re in the station? There are several levels of detail that we can discuss, depending on whether you're in a tournament or whether you're in a practice session, or whether you're just watching clay target kill shot reviews and...