Compete as Well as You Practice
Do you shoot clays in competition as well as you do in practice? Do you perform as well in your competitions as you do when you practice? Or do you feel like you cannot perform as well in your game as when you practice? I have a lot of clients who tell me this all the time. Many of them are really confused about how to handle it. They don’t understand why they can kill the targets when practicing or shooting in practice, and then go out during the week of competition and have those same good shots not carry over. Of course, more pressure does exist in competitions than when they practice, but still there is a reason. It’s a mind game. So what can a clay shooter do?
Sporting Clays Magazine Article
SPORTING CLAYS MAGAZINE, Sept 2015 Issue, Page 16
Shooting Beyond Our Fears by Randy Lawrence {about me and my work}
If you are a Competitive Clay Shooter and ready to have better focus, consistency, outcomes, and… a better time, then it is your time for mental training!
Thank You Randy!!
What a spectacular write up on me and my work with Competitive Clay Shooters!
Randy did a great job explaining where the need for effective mental training lies and how my programs hit the bulls-eye on addressing those needs!
Here is the full article:
Clay Shooting with Peace of Mind
How natural does it feel for you to be present in any given moment, with complete peace of mind? How about when you smash clays? Do you typically feel at peace when you are shooting, or do you worry about if you will break the clays? Maybe you think you will miss a particular shot like you “always do.” You understand the importance of having a strong mental game to play well, but somehow your mind struggles to remain peaceful in the present moment. This is very frustrating. I completely understand that struggle, and I can really help you improve that mental skill.
Be A Calm Shooter
There are many things shooters can do to sharpen their mental skills, in order to improve their performance. I have covered some of those things in other articles, teachings and sessions with clients as we work together, and they are all available in my clay shooting products. In this particular article, one thing I want to focus on helping you with – that is so important to making good shots for any shooter – is the ability to be calm and relaxed. You must be calm and relaxed if you expect to hit the clay targets well.
Confident Clay Shooter
Have you been a shooter for many years? If so, do you remember how confident you felt when you were young (or younger) and just starting out? Even as you made some not-so-great shots in your early days, you understood that was part of learning and you still hung on to a healthy confidence as you played. Or maybe you thought that the more you played and mastered the mechanics, the more confident you would become. How has that worked out for you? Are you as confident as you would like to be?
No Perfect Shot
Do you believe things should be perfect in your life, or you should have a perfect shot or perfect clay shooting game? As I work with many athletes and consider different ways a shooter might achieve peak performance, something that comes up a lot is the word ‘perfection’. Perfection is probably the most common trap shooters fall into without even being consciously aware that they are falling into it. Why is that? What is wrong with seeking perfection that I would label it a trap?
If we take a look at a quote from one of my hypnosis product suggestions, I think it will help you better understand the implications of perfection on a shooter’s ability to achieve peak performance. The quote is:
Concentration in Sports
Heart Surgeon Speaks Truth
Dr. Dwight Lundell is the past Chief of Staff and Chief of Surgery at Banner Heart Hospital , Mesa , AZ. His private practice, Cardiac Care Center was in Mesa, AZ. Recently Dr. Lundell left surgery to focus on the nutritional treatment of heart disease. He is the founder of Healthy Humans Foundation that promotes human health with a focus on helping large corporations promote wellness. He is also the author of The Cure for Heart Disease and The Great Cholesterol Lie. He wrote this in January of this year. Here are his thoughts, and apologies:
Lead a Healthy Lifestyle
Thousands of years ago, food was different. Food was a way for humans to re-energize, sustain. We hunted, gathered, worked our fingers raw to put food into our bellies. Food was natural, organic, and most of the time, raw. Nowadays, we speak into a receiver and our order is ready in five minutes. Fast food, groceries on every corner, restaurants, quickie-marts, gas stations, food is all around us. It is so easy to run to a Dunkin Donuts for coffee and brekkie. It is so easy to run into Publix for fried chicken dinner. But is it so easy for your body to bounce back after those things are ingested? Inflammation is at an all-time high. Diabetes is effecting over 30 million Americans. So what can you do? Here are a few things you can do to reduce your risk of some serious health issues.
Clay Shooting Tips
All shooters want to shoot better. If a shooter says otherwise, he is telling a tall tale. Since perfect doesn’t exist, clay shooters are always trying to come up with their next goal. Maybe your next achievement is to break your highest score on FITASC, maybe it’s to move to a different class. But for many shooters, a handful of shooting mistakes create frustration in the field or on the range. I have helped shooters at all skill levels gain proficiency by eliminating mistakes and by helping each shooter trust their instincts, learn to be present, and stay focused.
Here are 10 shooting tips for you to consider. This may help you to develop your mechanical skills during practice and performance. Again, in order to peak your performance, you must be competent in your mechanical game, but also your mental game. Focus on these tips first and then move onto the mental stuff.
Yoga and Golf
LTV Series: Humility as a Spiritual Principle
Perception is everything. One evening, I was driving with my daughter beside me. We passed a cherry-red convertible. The lady driving the convertible was smoking. My daughter turned to me and asked: “Why do people smoke inside their cars with the windows up?” It occurred to me that no one else looks at the world the same way you do. I saw a convertible. My daughter saw a red sedan. So perception is especially important when discussing the reality of life and how we choose to live. The Living the Virtues Series on humility has been inspirational. The quote for today is: “What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God” Monica Baldwin.