Don Currie's Sporting Sentinel

Don Currie's Shooting Tips...

August 4, 2021

Sporting Clays is a unique sport in that the specific task at hand changes with every station. True, our goal is always to break the targets, but how we break the targets changes from station to station. As a result, we must use our conscious mind to analyze the targets and develop a plan for breaking each unique target pair. To put it simply, we are in “analysis mode”. Once our plan is developed and we move into the stand, we should be equipped with a rehearsed plan. By “rehearsed” I mean that you should have completed a series of visualizations of the movement you will execute to break the target pair. At this point, your conscious mind should be occupied only with the focal points on each target. It is to these focal points that you apply acute visual focus just prior to and through each breakpoint. At this point, you must trust your plan and your abilities and perform only one faction: Feed the brain the visual information it needs to break the pair. Let me give you a bit of homework.

Read the NSCA Level II manual and specifically the Mental Game starting on Page 15 (https://www.nssa-nsca.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/NSCA-Level-II-Instructor-Certification-Manual-PDF-102014.pdf). I would also read my previously published articles and accompanying videos on The Optimal Process (http://doncurrie.com/optimal/). A couple of books you might find of great value are written by Bob Rotella, one of the most well-respected authorities on the mental game in golf. “The Golfer’s Mind” and “Golf is Not A Game of Perfect” are both analogous to sporting clays.

Don Currie is the chief instructor of the National Sporting Clays Association and one of the most sought-after shooting coaches and gunfitter in our sport. Competing in the shooting sports since age 8 and instructing as an apprentice at age 16, Don is that rare combination of Champion, Instructor, Coach and Gunfitter Don regularly propels shotgun enthusiasts of all ages and experience levels to breakthrough performance whether in the field or in competition. He also fits and equips shooters for custom shotguns. His instructional DVD “Focus – Movement – Faith” is the #1 rated sporting clays DVD on Amazon.com. For more about Don, visit his web site at https://doncurrie.com.
 

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