Season Winding Down

[Falconflyer]

I was always the opposite. Though I always tried my best at practice I was nowhere near as motivated and focused as I was when competing. On practice days because I was heavily involved in the running of the club my focus was divided between club responsibilities and shooting so I shot most of my good scores when competing, especially away from our home club as I only had to focus on my shooting and nothing else.

If I'm running a shoot then I can't participate, like you say, too many distractions.

 

[Falconflyer]

I believe I understand the perspective that your post is coming from. If the shooting club is designed to take a beginner to the competition line and score a greenhorn with no previous practice experience, and then let them walk away from the club with their head hanging low, to never shoot again at a club, quit complaining about no new memberships.

Sunday fun, is meant to train, and improve your shooting brain. I have noticed some folks could care less about competition, and use Sunday fun to master certain problem shots. A good Sporting Clays range will be ready for Sunday fun every day of the week. Unfortunately, a local trap range by CYEG does not have the same philosophy. If they go under, too bad, so sad. Remember, the maximization of any learning process in any situation takes place under a step by step process under a friendly relaxed environment. The introduction to a stress like competition can be introduced later should the client want to go further.

Some people shoot competition to show how good they are in being superior to others. Some people shoot clays to master the basics and step beyond to the really hard targets without the stress of competition. I have noticed that some of these Sunday fun shooters have very stressful jobs and use a fun time to master a skill and relax...without MAS.

That's pretty much where I'm at these days but to not compete at a fun shoot with your buddies or yourself just isn't a lot of fun either because lets face it, you wouldn't be out there if you weren't competitive at least to some degree. I was shooting for fun with a couple of buddies this summer and about half way through the round, me and another guy realized that we were neck and neck for high score and although nothing was said, the competition was on! The really exciting part was that it came right down to the last station to decide the winner, talk about fun! We ran into each other the next day and the first words out of each others mouths were how much fun we had the day before!

 

[bluelynx]

I agree with you Falconflyer. One of my favorite games is to shoot your sxxt with a buddy on a difficult set up. He misses more targets than I hit . He buys pizza.

However, there are times when a person requires quiet time to shoot those dastardly difficult targets. An expert who points your errors out is most helpful sitting at the thrower button with a smile.


And yes, Competition is good when you believe you have acquired the requisite learning skills. Focus. and Focus under pressure. That is excellent.


That does not begin with one day at a trap range.

 

[Maritime Storm]

Your last sentence speaks to me.

And some of us try to do all of the above. My competition scores generally are within a target or 2 of my practice scores, as Atomic will attest to I usually do compete at a shoot I am working. Makes for a good exercise program.

 

[Falconflyer]

And some of us try to do all of the above. My competition scores generally are within a target or 2 of my practice scores, as Atomic will attest to I usually do compete at a shoot I am working. Makes for a good exercise program.

Working and running are often two different things!

I'm not saying that no one can run a shoot and shoot at it but I certainly can't and I've tried, if you can then you have much better powers of concentration and resilience to distractions than I do. Now that I think of it, that probably wouldn't be difficult for a lot of people!

 

[stubblejumper]

I tend to shoot better when I am shooting at an event, or when having some friendly competition with friends. I don't find distraction to be as much of an issue as many other people do.

 

[bmcrae]

Working and running are often two different things!

I'm not saying that no one can run a shoot and shoot at it but I certainly can't and I've tried, if you can then you have much better powers of concentration and resilience to distractions than I do. Now that I think of it, that probably wouldn't be difficult for a lot of people!

I've had moderate success doing it...

However, I've also had train wrecks that can likely be attributed to all of the extra work load as well.

 

[Maritime Storm]

Working and running are often two different things!

I'm not saying that no one can run a shoot and shoot at it but I certainly can't and I've tried, if you can then you have much better powers of concentration and resilience to distractions than I do. Now that I think of it, that probably wouldn't be difficult for a lot of people!

This is true, when I'm running the shoot, I generally put myself on the last or first squad(normally) the first, then I'm free to put all my efforts into the tasks at hand.