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Sporting clays, skeet and trap: reading targets, setups and breaking more birds.
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You hear a lot about how important the pre-shot routine is for consistency and creating the zone experience. In our speeches about the mental
Seeing Behind The Barrel As a person gets better at shooting moving targets with a shotgun, the brain links the multitude of sequences
In our travels to more than 30 shooting facilities around the country each year, we see a lot of you in our clinics and
We see this a lot in new and intermediate shooters. It’s partly because they don’t have the shot inventory to properly visualize how and
We have often wondered why some people find it is so hard to learn wing or clay shooting and others don’t. The other day,
Shoot a shotgun for any length of time either at clays or birds and you will read and hear about shortcuts and quick fixes
In the past year, we have done quite a few seminars for the state Department of Natural Resources to help their Hunter Education leaders
As coaches on three continents over the past three decades, we have seen a lot of shooters who would really like to get better.
The Evolution of Vision in Sporting Clays Nobody begins wing or clay shooting without some level of visual confusion, due to a phenomenon called
Shooting Without Thinking The Pointing Instinct Since you were six months old you have been pointing at what you are looking at. This reflex
Mean What You Say Our game is riddled with shooters who, without any forethought, close the gun and call “pull,” then chase the targets
Necessary Change There are two things that we explain and change in our competitive shooters’ approach to higher scores and wingshooters’ ability to be
Temper Temper Temper A “Vacation” at the National Championship I was shooting small-gauge FITASC at the National Championship this year, and there was a
Skill Is What You Remember We are all a product of everything we have ever done, and we are more a product of that
Consistency Comes from Missing Better! While this title might sound strange, it is based on our research from thousands of shooters on three continents.
The Ups and Downs of Clay Shooting If you are like so many of our clients worldwide, you always want to do your best
Self-Diagnostics and Improving Your Misses While this title might sound strange, it is based on our research from thousands of shooters on three continents.
Does It Fit? In a recent two-day clinic, one of our shooters had a DT-11 and was chasing everything, trying to swing through and
Along the Way Skill building is a process that few really understand. And even fewer are willing to put in the time and repetitions
As professional coaches for 30 years on three continents, we’ve each seen roughly eight million shotgun shells fired in anger at both clay targets
A comment from the parent of a shooter we are working with: “One benefit of your coaching that I really admire and appreciate as
Cheek Pressure and Performance On our journey as professional coaches, we have observed many things that are linked together with either success or failure,
Question from a parent of a skeet shooter we are currently working with: “I wonder where in the learning process the unlearning of bad
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