Competition – Win or Learn
The competition isn’t a win-or-lose thing. The competition is an opportunity for you to lay it all out there on the line and keep giving it a hundred percent. At the end of the competition, go back and evaluate what happened, what targets were you comfortable...
Cue, Response, Reward
Habits are built this way: cue, response, and reward. The cue is a trigger for the automatic response to start. The response is the behavior itself, and the reward tells our brain whether we should store this habit for future use or not. Toothpaste is a...
Act Your Way to Right Thinking
You’ve got to put yourself in the game and fail enough times, but keep trying harder and doing the things that we’ve talked about on the Coaching Hour in order to succeed. Remember: you can’t think your way to the right action. You’ve got to act...
What Are Focus Ratios?
“Focus ratios” are what we call the amount of focus a shooter puts on the target versus the amount of focus on the gun as a term of percentage. For many people, these things change. For example, you might have 98 percent on the bird...
F.E.A.R: Failure to Effectively Accept Results
Failure to Effectively Accept Results. Fear. The thing that enables us to get past fear is courage. And courage comes to you in different ways. What do you have to trust in your game to overcome fear? You've got to eliminate all the "be sures." Be sure your feet are...
What to Do During Your Winter Layoff
First, you've got to take time off. And if you have been keeping a log, refer to what you've done in past years. If not, then start keeping a log. You can go to the log page on the Knowledge Vault. Here's where the log pays...
Finding Your Idiosyncrasies at the Start of the Year
At the beginning of the year, it’s important to find your idiosyncrasies. They’re going to be certain things that you will have a tendency to do under pressure. You’ll take things for granted: Muzzle too high. Muzzle going up. Not being comfortable with the muzzle being...
There’s No Such Thing as an “Easy” or “Hard” Target
"If we can accept that having some level of expectation is a normal and natural byproduct of training and competition, how do we best manage and deal with it?" You always go into a practice or tournament with some kind of expectation. But you can't let...
Your Opponent is Your Ally
Your opponent is instrumental in creating this growth. The better the people around you that you are competing with, the better you will have to shoot to compete with them. The better your opponent is, the closer the competition will be, and the more benefits...
Tips on a Blindside Bird
A blindside bird is one that comes from your left if you're a right-handed shooter and from your right if you're a left-handed shooter. When shooting a blindside bird, it's important to open your stance so that you can see the bird as early as possible....