Pushing Past Discomfort to Learn
This is a segment inspired by Fred Shoemaker’s book “Extraordinary Golf” that Gil and Vicki used at a coach’s clinic in Nebraska about coaching kids. One of the things you have to get kids to overcome is fear. They’re all afraid to screw up because they’re...
The Timing Drill
The timing drill is done on a skeet field. You go out to station eight and take three or four steps back towards station four and face the center stake. The gun hold point is over toward the high house, and the focal point is into...
Weekend Shooters vs. Winners
Seeing a marked improvement in your ability to shoot targets is not a quick evolution. This is why we keep saying to shoot singles with routines. There are no shortcuts, but everyone is looking for one. The resistance to change, something to make us better is...
Failing and Expectation
The people who are still in mental management and the people who are selling “reprogramming your brain” and mental chewing gum as the know-all and end-all will tell you that all you have to do is learn how to think and you’re going to be...
The Importance of Balance
Balance is something that we take for granted because we use it every day. Unless you’ve had an inner ear infection or some kind of problem that affected your balance to where you couldn’t overcome it, you don’t realize how valuable it is. We’ve worked with...
How Close Together Should Your Feet Be?
"When shooting below your feet, how much closer should your feet actually be? Should foot closeness vary with downward angle? Should my feet touch every time? Is there an optimal distance between your feet? I've been trying to vary on what felt right and I...
What Are You Trying to Change?
The performance mindset is to break the target at all costs. But in order to get into the learning mindset, you need to stop trying to break the target. If we can get you to focus on the change, focus on what we want you...
Be Methodical!
You’ve got to be methodical about everything you do and every shot you take. If you’re not methodical and intense every time that you get ready to call for the target and go after it, then your results are not something you can look at...
Adjusting Your Expectations
Back in 2021, a shooter we were helping told us that exchanging had really helped him, because it made him look at him game. “It made me look at what was going on outside of sporting clays in my life,” he said. This shooter had six...
Our Simple System
The OSP system is not a system of complex leads. It’s not a system of gun speed being faster than bird speed. It’s very simple: 70-yard line, nose on the target, be early, as it comes stabilize the picture, pull the trigger, front edge in...