The best thing to do after a lesson is to go and shoot easy targets and shoot singles. If you will do this for three weeks you will be making the move subconscious. Therefore, you will not have to think about it again. What we did in the lesson was to give you the data to build on. Now you must make it subconscious and a part of the shot.
After a lesson, most people want to go shoot a tournament. What they don’t realize is that everything they have learned in their lesson is not subconscious, and they will be thinking about it. Their mind will not be totally focused on hitting the target. You must have 100 percent conscious mind focusing on the target to be successful. If your mind is thinking about the move you have just learned, or how the picture looks, you will not be concentrating on the target.
Go and shoot easy targets that are within 25 yards. Make every target between you and 25 yards dead. Go and shoot just singles and practice the correct move, or the correct focal point, or whatever you and your coach have decided is the best thing.
Another good thing to do is change the break point. Still shooting singles, break the target five times in a row at one break point, then find another break point and hit five targets in a row there, then find another break point. Feel comfortable breaking targets in several different places. At some point in your shooting, you will need to break the targets in a lot of different places, so get confident that you can do it. Don’t just go for the sweet spot get where you control the break point. Hit the target five times in a row to get you practicing like you are in a tournament.
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