RECORD TRAINING
It’s hard enough to remember last week’s training, let alone last month’s sessions.Use a record sheet within your Diary – you won’t regret keeping tabs on your hard work. Use as is, or adapt. SHOOTING_DIARY_inserts
WHAT’S THE CAMERA FOR?
Have you turned up at a coaching session and someone has produced a video camera to assist in coaching? The owner of the camera “watches” some of the shooters through the camera and then takes it all back into the clubhouse to play to the crowd. If the camera can be set-up & plugged into […]
DRY FIRING with Marcus Raab
Technical Training-Dry Firing by Marcus Raab Introduction Many of us as coaches and/or athletes are impatient. We want results now if not yesterday. We look for and try many different things to improve the performance of our athletes. Some ideas work, others do not and a few work for some athletes, but not all. There […]
DRY FIRE & IMPROVE
We all have need to dry fire. Many top Prone and Position shooters regard dry-firing as legitimate and valuable practice. I offer the comment though, that rim-fire rifles may well be damaged by dry-firing on an empty chamber. The firing pin may hit on the edge of the chamber, pinning the chamber so that over […]
TO CANT OR NOT TO CANT
What is “canting?” Canting is about shooting while the rifle is not perfectly level. The rifle can be canted inward (brought in towards the shooter) or outwards (away from the shooter). The diagrams above give you a view of the sights when the rifle is level (Figure 1), canted in towards the shooter (Figure 2) […]
HOW TO TRAIN TO IMPROVE
Now everyone is going to say …. “Of course I train!… but do you…do you understand the real meaning of training. The three processes are … TRAINING … PRACTICE … COMPETITION … Let’s break that down a bit – TRAINING. Training is taking the time to work on the little elements of performance, one at a […]
NUTRITION & SHOOTING
NUTRITION IN THE SHOOTING SPORTS All disciplines of shooting require high mental concentration, which requires more nutrients to be delivered to the brain to use as fuel. Mental performance will be best after eating a mixture of carbohydrate, lean protein and healthy fat at frequent intervals throughout the day. This will ensure that blood sugar […]
TESTING AMMUNITION
TESTING AMMUNITION. In June 2011, Robyn Ridley, Warren Potent and Dane Sampson visited the Eley factory in the UK, with the aim of testing their (and other) barrels to determine the best batch of ammunition to use over the coming year. Obviously, the data on these pages will not specifically help other shooters, as each […]
A FEW Q&A POSTS
Q. Ring Size. When setting up a new 50m Prone shooter what ring size would you start with as a general rule of thumb. Because everyone’s eyes are different and people see different things A. A good start is somewhere around 3.8—4.0 with the back at 1.2 It’s also essential have good eye relief with […]
VISION & SHOOTING
SPORTS VISION AND TARGET SHOOTING. Visual Errors Affect Performance Accuracy depends on eyes ability to gauge a separation of two objects and recognise symmetry. The rifle shooter requires optimal contrast between the foresight ring and aiming mark – this can be achieved through choice of iris opening, foresight ring size, managing fatigue, eliminating reflections and glare, […]
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SUCCESS IS A CHALLENGE
