MENTAL FOCUS TRAINING

WVU has had a stellar rifle/shooting team for many years. A coach who started this run was a phycology professor I think.
He stressed the mental aspect of shooting and being total zen and relaxed.
Many young men and women from this program are the best in the USA with world and Olympic wins.

you want to work on your focus eh? Try shooting at night.

Back when I was training motorcyclists to advanced levels, a client recommended this book. I'd noticed his abilities and commented on how he was thinking his ride through. (It turned out that he's a writer for a motorcycle magazine.) What the book will teach you applies to pretty much all sports. It helped me win at the track.

Link - https://theinnergame.com/inner-game-books/the-inner-game-of-tennis/

Berndt Spiegel's "The Upper Half of The Motorcycle" is another excellent book on turning mind-power into positive motion.

"The Book Of Five Rings" is another excellent read on the mental aspects of physical movement.

Good luck,

J~

When coaching people to shoot I'll start with a low power stick-bow.

A (simple) bow has no stock, no sights and no trigger which forces the shooter, in addition to the physiological aspects of making a shot (breathing, drawing, focus/sighting, breaking the shot, following through), to learn to be all those things.

When we move to a gun, everything seems so simple... and, by comparison, it is.

I kid with my trainees that they need to USE THE FORCE when shooting - which is not far from the truth. If you practice enough to be consistently consistent then everything should be ingrained to the point that focusing on the target should be your conscious job where actually triggering the shot is done by your subconscious... based in all the experience gained from the training sessions.

This morning I wanted two squirrels for the pot. Got one at 25ish yards and the other around 30 yards. Both were snap-shots to the head with my .22/600mm DRS. Don't remember anything about the shots other than it was safe to shoot in that direction. All the mechanics of the shot were done auto-magically using THE FORCE... based on hours of practice

Most of my sub-35yard shooting is done "instinctively" with little attention to sight pictures and such. Been shooting like that since I was a kid hunting with slingshots and homemade bows. Find that it's SO MUCH EASIER with a rifle.

Cheers!

OldVet said:

Can't that would really piss neighbors off. Maybe I'll go out to my desert range with some little birthday candles , and see if I can hit them. Then it really would be lights out. Lol OV.

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This is deeper than most want to go, but Lanny Bassham has laid out the mental toughness needed for a gold medal. Not a silver medal. If you decide to dive in, I suggest starting with With Winning in Mind.


Mike