The importance of the\u00a0three-bullet drill was emphasized again in an overwhelming way.<\/p>\n
There is a thought process out there that if you are right-eyed and right-handed,\u00a0you can look down the barrel and get the lead and shoot the target. I had\u00a0two students who looked\u00a0straight down the barrel at the bead sight<\/i>\u00a0every time they mounted the gun. What a long day for them –\u00a0and me. After they watched the animations, they knew they were in for a long day. But\u00a0watching the animations and doing the three-bullet drill, they understood where their eyes were supposed to be. The visual helped them to understand why they kept missing the targets and both shooters finally began looking behind the muzzle at the target by about 2:30 or 3 PM.<\/p>\n
I had one shooter for two days and the second day was much better, but both shooters\u00a0were very frustrated with their reflex of looking down the barrel. It doesn\u2019t matter how much they understand what they are supposed to be looking at; the aiming reflex remains the one biggest thing we must deal with.\u00a0The animations help with the logic of where to be looking,\u00a0but the overwhelming majority of shooters are still burdened with the reflex of looking down the barrel.<\/p>\n
Maybe the next new product should be a combination of animation and real shots about where your eyes are\u00a0when you look at the bird and mount the gun ahead of the bird!<\/p>\n
On another note, there were some exciting victories at the club. Most all of the shooters, once they began to see the target across the barrel, began to consistently hit cross-eyed targets. We started\u00a0all shooters on the cross-eyed targets to get them to understand the importance of seeing the targets\u00a0behind the muzzle.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n
On the\u00a0first and third days, the animations were a great success. And\u00a0when we did the three-bullet drill with the shooters, they were amazed at how much the animations changed their perceptions of what they were supposed to be doing,\u00a0especially the women. Some got it instantly and some got it later in the day. But they\u00a0all saw it. And\u00a0some got it deeply and some sporadically.<\/p>\n
At lunch on\u00a0the third day, a\u00a0student remarked that everyone says that Vicki and I\u00a0are crazy or don\u2019t teach what everyone else teaches.\u00a0I agreed with him but then asked what he thought about what we teach after shooting just half a day with me. Well, he said it is different from what everyone teaches but way more\u00a0effective.<\/i><\/p>\n
I mentioned to him that the one common thread that everyone who says that about us is that\u00a0they have never had a lesson from us!<\/i>\u00a0I challenged him to directly ask\u00a0the next person who said that if they had ever had a lesson from us. Call\u00a0me and let me know\u00a0what they said.<\/p>\n
We know what they will say. The\u00a0simple answer is “No, but I talked to someone who has.” B.S. No one has spent the time or the money to research the science of visuomotor skill or skill development or produce the products that we have produced to enhance the learning experience of our students worldwide.<\/p>\n
We’re off to Reno this week to do seminars at the SCI show and then back home to rest for a couple of days. Then\u00a0to Phoenix for first time for four\u00a0full days.<\/p>\n
We rescheduled OK Corral for February 14-17 to handle overage from this trip, and we’ll\u00a0probably take\u00a0another trip in April –\u00a0around fishing, of course!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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