Back in 2020, I had as one of my goals to shoot a large tournament. The one I selected was the East Coast Championship held each spring at Hunter’s Pointe in Washington NC. I thoroughly enjoyed that experience, and have returned each year to participate in that tournament. If you haven’t experienced a large event […]
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I have referred to the good old inverted U curve no fewer than three times in various blog posts! Some of you might remember this picture from this post (click on the title to go back to the post if you like): Put Some “Skins” in the Game. For the sake of completeness, you can
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By now, you probably have heard rumblings about ChatGPT – an “AI Chatbot” that was recently released for general (free) use. Coming off the heels of just having read a few books on artificial intelligence, I was curious to see if AI could take over my blog posting duties and give me a vacation! Getting
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Today’s post is number 62! Taking a look back we have covered a lot of territory. Looking through the posts, they can be grouped into roughly 10 categories as follows: Goal Setting Self-talk Visualization Stress Management / Emotional Regulation Mindfulness / Meditation / Focus Confidence Fitness / Eye Training Performance Logging Self-image Pre-shot Planning So…
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Whenever I hear of the skins game. I think back to the unofficial PGA tour event by the same name that was held from 1983 – 2008 (thanks Wikipedia!). This event was held at the end of each season and pitted some of the top names in the golfing world against each other. In the
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The final tournament in our local area was held at Kidd’s Place this past Saturday. There was a lot on the line for a couple of our shooters! Both Dave Coffman and Randy Donovan faced “sudden death” in this shoot. Due to the way the NSCA handles carry-over punches, they both faced the prospect of
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If you are like me, I consult the weather channel app in order to select my practice days – most often looking for “Goldilock” conditions – not too hot, not too cold, not too wet – just right! While this might be great for creature comfort, is it the best way you can prepare yourself
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The earlier post on mindfulness remains one of the most visited to date (5th out of 41 in terms of number of visits). If you have not had the opportunity to read that one, you can find it HERE. In that post, I mentioned I was starting a meditation practice. Later, I followed up with
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In my last post (HERE), I gave a pretty thorough review of my current and future reading for the summer. Well, true to my over-exuberant self, I have actually finished up all the books / CDs I had mentioned… I just can’t seem to put a book down once I start it! Today, I wanted
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In my earlier blog post in which I chatted with pro-shooter Grace Callahan (if you haven’t read it, you can find it HERE), Grace mentioned a technique in which she would pick a song for each day’s competition and sing it to herself throughout the day’s shoot in order to prevent negative thoughts from intruding
Early on in the life of this Blog, I wrote an entry on the efficacy of lists. That post focused on the necessity of actually using the list once developed. Here is the post in case you missed it: One thing that was lacking in that post was a good example of a list. Today’s
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Recently, I had the honor of having lunch with Brian DeMott, master class competitor and former PSCA shooter. I had reached out to Brian after observing him shoot on a couple of different occasions noting how confident he appeared as he prepared for each shot and how smoothly he executed each pair. I introduced him
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We have all seen it on the course, and perhaps done it ourselves! A shot is missed. The shooter opens the gun, catches the ejected shells aggressively, and forcefully throws them into the used hull bin. Is this a bad thing? The answer is not so clear cut. In my post “Foundational Reading in Sport
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If you want to know how popular the term “Mindfulness” has become, just Google it like I just did – Google returned 302 million hits! Searching for “Mindfulness in Sport” pares it down to a staggering 42 million! That is a lot of information to weed through! With so much information out there, it is
Tis the season to start working on that naughty and nice list! One of the best things you can do to take some cognitive load off your brain is to use lists. I had an interesting experience with lists this weekend while preparing for a competition. Let me share it with you! I have a
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Every athlete has had the experience of having the wheels come off during a performance! Wouldn’t it be nice to have a reset button to press that would set things back on track? Well, there is! I like to use a tried and true, two-step procedure to get thinks headed in the right direction. The
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