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 as time and money allows. The unfortunate thing is that you can’t get around it.
Here is how we have seen it work and evolve in our many shooters who are competitive and putting in the effort to getting better at competing. Certain plateaus occur on your way from 60 to 90 and there are certain ways of getting through each plateau.
Just before you have that breakthrough, you will inevitably go through the “shooting better but not scoring better” syndrome. There is a circuit in your brain that anticipates about 1/3rd of a second ahead of where you are. You use it every day to motivate yourself through life and the tasks you attempt to complete. And this circuit keeps you from performing better and better.
At the same time, it is this circuit that allows you to get better and better. And the better you get, the farther out in front of where you are it can anticipate.
Sound hard to believe? Well, read on.
This game we love to play, shooting a 30-cent cartridge at a 40-cent target to see if we can break it before it breaks when it hits the ground is really a game of anticipation. And this circuit can do some amazing things when you know how to optimize its ability to anticipate ahead of the target.
Located in an area of your visual cortex called V5, this circuit can anticipate farther and farther ahead of where you are. But not only that. The more experienced it becomes through practicing and shooting tournaments, the more it can make things you do seem extremely synchronous when they aren’t.
Perhaps the most amazing thing about this circuit is that, with experience, it can anticipate farther and farther out in front of what you are doing. And when performing a task that you have practiced and trained, it can actually correct human behavior as it is happening!
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