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The mental game: confidence, pressure and shooting your best when it counts.
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So, you think you have a mental problem or your mental game needs to be improved? You might think this is the only way
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Have you ever told yourself to calm down? Maybe it was before a presentation or in a job interview. Or perhaps at a tournament
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 Ups and Downs of Clay Shooting If you are like so many of our clients worldwide, you always want to do your best
How to Handle Compliments Eventually, your game will elevate to another level and your fellow shooters will begin to notice your scores are either
When the Negatives Come It’s been proven that we as human beings have a 3:1 negativity bias toward the things that happen to us.
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
Whether you are a serious tournament competitor or a casual recreational shooter, you have experienced being nervous when performing in front of other shooters,
Mental Representations In his book Peak, the late Anders Ericsson went to great lengths to explain that everything we do in life is a
Our task is to take our students’ game and, based on their goals and commitments, assess their levels of fundamentals and experience. Then we
“I’m missing the “gimme” targets. This target should have been easy for my skill level, but I missed it anyway. How do I recover
The following is an assemblage of different things we have been asked by individuals who have found themselves in one or more of these
Trust Has Nothing to Do with Trust! How many times have you been on a roll in a shoot and all of a sudden
You have been shooting for a few years, and you have shot a few tournaments, and you are starting to develop some consistency. But
This excerpt from our book Traveling The Inner State illustrates the way real peak performers think and set goals. Regardless of the outcome, they are constantly trying
On a recent Coaching Hour podcast, entitled “How to Go From 75 to 90,” we asked participants to share with us any misconceptions that they
This is something you will inevitably go through more than once if you are trying to improve or you are determined to get as better
“I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I have been trusted to take the game-winning
“No improvement happens without change…For every change, there is a price…The value is in the commitment!”-Vicki Ash In working with shooters worldwide, we see
“Ultimately, a person’s attitude has more to do with success and failure than any other one thing!”-Vicki Ash This game we love, shooting a
We were talking to several shooters about scorecards and what they could tell us about what a shooter is doing, what is causing their
Shooters come to us from all over the country in our clinics and private lessons who are trying to register with the target (inserting
Ask a room full of sporting clays shooters if they would like to be more consistent and you will be overrun with enthusiastic responses.
Over the years, we have shared with you everything that we have learned as we learned it, traveling three continents. And we have tried
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