Gil’s Blogs

The core purpose of the visual system is prediction. Our visual processing system, when you combine that with other senses, provides information to the

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When you watch an elite shooter, everything is always the same. You can think all you want to with the gun open, but once

When we’re looking out at the horizon, we see a circle of vision. Two-hundredths of one percent of that circle is where your sharp

Deliberate practice is critical for reaching a focus ratio of 95-5. The baggage that everyone carries through all of these plateaus is worrying about

Everything we do with a shotgun occurs in the periphery and how much awareness of the barrel is an evolution. We’ve all been through

I had a lesson not long ago with a shooter who’d been shooting with a pro-tournament shooter, complaining about vision problems and closing an

Sports vision expert Dr. Dan Laby taught us that there’s no difference in reaction time between experienced and non-experienced athletes in simple reaction situations

Put 100 shotgun shooters in a room and ask all of them to raise their hands if they would like to be more consistent

Tiger Woods in his early career tied with several guys going into the last day and they just left him in a cloud of

Do you have any affirmations that you tell yourself and others that you’re going to do at the next tournament you go to? For

You can’t be mediocre and then show up at the tournament on Sunday and be excellent. Excellence is a way of life. You gotta

There have been hundreds of times in the last 35 years when I’ve had a really good shooter who’s trying to learn a new

For most, training your mind to be stronger than your feelings is such a far reach that they can’t even imagine themselves always reacting

So, you think you have a mental problem or your mental game needs to be improved? You might think this is the only way

In the beginning, it will be difficult for you to commit to a shot as predicted because of your desire to break the target

Shooters often do not practice with intensity, which can confuse them. They go through the motions and fun, and then when they go to

After you break the first pair, the typical emotional reaction is relief. Wrong. When you break the first pair, and you break that second

The ideal way for the brain to move the body is small muscle, big muscle. And when I’m moving, as I call or I’m

In a study on baseball that Dan Levy and Dave Kirscher did, they looked at simple reactions and complex reactions. They compared trained athletes

In the beginning, we know when a shooter is shooting with a gun doesn’t fit. We know it shoots high. I’ll typically give the

No one ends up with the same visual confusion they begin with. And don’t make too much over eye dominance. Learning the sight picture

When you’re looking between the birds of the pair, you’ll understand just how much time you really have to shoot the pair, which will

I had a lesson with a 70-year-old guy who had been taking lessons from the young guns – trying to pull away, trying to