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Practice

Practice plans and drills that make every round at the range count.

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Priming Words

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After the Shot?

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

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The Evolution of Perceptions

In our travels to more than 30 shooting facilities around the country each year, we see a lot of you in our clinics and

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Is It Really a Mental Problem?

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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Can You Commit to Your Shot?

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

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Rituals Turning Into Habits

Have you ever told yourself to calm down? Maybe it was before a presentation or in a job interview. Or perhaps at a tournament

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The Great Conundrum

For most shooters, there is no rhyme or rhythm in their results when shooting a shotgun at a moving target – painted or feathered.

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Overcoming Muzzle Awareness

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,

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The Difference Between Knowledge and Understanding

Shoot a shotgun for any length of time either at clays or birds and you will read and hear about shortcuts and quick fixes

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Expectation vs Preparation

In the past year, we have done quite a few seminars for the state Department of Natural Resources to help their Hunter Education leaders

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The Origins of Our Mistakes

As coaches on three continents over the past three decades, we have seen a lot of shooters who would really like to get better.

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Embrace the Struggle

Embrace The Struggle Daniel Coyle, author of “The Talent Code,” has a knack for putting things in words based on his research of “talent

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Shooting Without Thinking

Shooting Without Thinking  The Pointing Instinct  Since you were six months old you have been pointing at what you are looking at. This reflex

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Getting Over the Hump

Getting Over the Hump  Every shooter out there would probably give you a different definition of what practice is. They’ll tell you how they

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Sight Picture: What is It?

Sight Picture: What is It?  In print and online, you can read and hear about “shortcuts” and “quick fixes” to improving your clay and

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Purposeful Practice – What is It?

Purposeful Practice… What is It?  Ask ten shooters what real purposeful practice is and you will probably get 15 different answers!  Most shooters who

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Getting Past the Obvious

Getting Past the Obvious  As you can imagine, we have witnessed a lot of successes and failures in shooters of all ages and experience

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Self-Diagnostics and Improving Your Misses

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.

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Along the Way

Along the Way Skill building is a process that few really understand. And even fewer are willing to put in the time and repetitions

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Life Lessons for Young Shooters

A comment from the parent of a shooter we are working with: “One benefit of your coaching that I really admire and appreciate as

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When Do You Unlearn Bad Habits?

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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You Got to Know Before You Call “Pull”

 “The will to prepare to win is greater than the will to win!”        – Bear Bryant We hear this often from

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Are You Committed?

It is our observation from a coaching/performance perspective that one of the biggest differences in the top sporting clays and skeet performers and everyone

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Mindsets Matter!

Talk to almost anyone in our game and ask if they would like to be more consistent or shoot better scores, and you’re liable

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