“Damn, this works!”
I’m sitting here at South Florida Shooting Club watching it rain on a cold Sunday. We have had a great few days of teaching and even some time to shoot the ShotKam for the website. We had so many students that Brian came with us...
Nuisance Decisions Get in the Way
We’re just getting back from South Carolina and Florida. It struck me how nuisance decisions get in the way of everyone shooting their best. On the September 2016 Coaching Hour, we discussed how making too many nuisance decisions before a tournament affected your performance. Nuisance decisions...
If Only We Had a Magic Pill
I was in the office this week due to all the rain we have been having and spoke to several people about the plateaus they were on, as well as how to get beyond the score they were stuck on. If only we had a magic...
Performance Anxiety
As the different state shoots are coming up and then Nationals in October, there seems to be some performance anxiety rearing its ugly head. You can’t let that control what you do. This anxiety is fear and expectations. You have prepared all year and you are...
Vicki’s Family Reunion
Well, it’s been an exciting two weeks. Our daughter Andrea and granddaughter Avery came to town last Monday, so we spent the week with them to prepare for our Watson Family Reunion. We were in charge of the reunion, which was to be held in Kemah,...
Do the Drill!
I know we have talked and talked about everyone doing the flashlight drill and the three-bullet drill and I have a hard time figuring out why no one will do them. They cost nothing other than a ten-dollar mini-mag light and you can do it...
“Two Eyes – No Gun!”
It's been an exciting number of very busy weeks for us. Traveling from hot South Carolina to the bay for a few days over July 4th to cool Montana for a welcome change from the oppressive heat in Houston. We meet a lot of great folks...
Travelling this Month
Brian and Gil went to Iowa to teach coaches and kids of Larry Gay’s SCTP team and I went to Oregon to babysit our granddaughter, Avery. What a busy week with a 7-year-old. She had every minute planned with fun things - including eating sushi at...
Argentina 2016
After leaving the snow of Colorado and the floods in Houston, we left for Cordoba, Argentina to rid the country of those pesky doves and pigeons. It was fall in the Southern Hemisphere. Usually, it’s not that cold, but this year it was unusually cold. But...
Effort and Attitude
Our Coaching Hour is our monthly hour of solving problems, talking about what we have learned, and hearing about our students’ successes and things they had learned. On last month’s Coaching Hour, one gentleman talked about what he could control: effort and attitude when on the...