Hello friends,
In the last video, Cutting Through the Spider’s Web, I discussed that to solve any problem in life, you need to keep raising your levels.
When he picks up his pistol, every shooter in the world does so with one and only one goal in mind, and that is to shoot a 10.
If you don’t shoot a 10, that’s a ‘problem’ because you want to shoot a 10, but when you shoot, you don’t score a 10, so that’s the ‘problem’ you are facing.
How do you solve this problem of not shooting a ten? Which areas do you need to raise your level to hit a ten every time you pick up a pistol?
It could be physical, mental, technical, financial, material, emotional, or spiritual.
In this video, I will only discuss the first two, the ‘Physical’ and the ’Technical’.
Physically – if you want to shoot a 10, you must have the ability, strength, and flexibility to pick up a pistol to execute one single shot.
Similarly, you must do it 60 times in a match, plus the sighters. So physically, you need to stand on the firing point and possess the physical strength and the ability to shoot 60 record shots plus whatever sighter shots are required.
If you can do that, then tick the box where ‘physical ability’ is concerned.
The next thing we go to is the technical reason; now, what is the technical requirement to shoot a 10?
You must know precisely what to do when the sights come into the aiming area.
There are three steps: First, you must understand the ‘aiming process’.
Second, you must know what ‘automatic trigger operation’ is.
And the third thing you must know is what ‘mental focus follow through’ is when the sights come into the aiming area.
What is the aiming process?
The aiming process is divided into three parts: when your sights come into the aiming area, your sights should be aligned, the second thing is they should be in sharp focus, and the third thing is your arc of movement should be reduced.
Knowing this is fine, the next step is mastering all three abovementioned parts. To master these three parts of the aiming process, you have to train very methodically.
You must have a good coach and training program because knowing how to master these three skills quickly is the smart thing to do.
So, you must have a very good coach who knows what the aiming process is; he must know how to give you a training program that provides you Mastery in all these three things, in all the three elements, in the shortest possible time.
What happens is when you don’t have a coach or don’t know how to master your skills, you just go on shooting, shooting, shooting. As a result, you’re wasting your time, effort, and money. And you again get into the spider’s web.
So, this is the first level in the technical aspect, which you must raise to discover how to master the three elements of the aiming process.
Every time your sights come into the aiming area, if you have only mastered the aiming process, then you will be able to master the second step, which is automatic trigger operation.
Now you know that when the sights come into the aiming area, if your aiming process is mastered, then your trigger should move automatically; there’s no need to hang around in the aiming area because if you do, then your trigger is going to freeze, it’s going to delay, and with delay, you run out of breath.
So you jerk the shot, or you cancel the shot and then come into a new set of problems, ‘ time pressure.’ Therefore, once your sights enter the aiming area and your aiming process is mastered, your trigger should move automatically.
Once again, do you have a coach? Do you have somebody who will teach you how to make your trigger operation automatic? Do you have a training methodology?
You have to find some method to learn how to make this trigger operation automatic. Assuming you see somebody and have mastered the trigger operation, you must master the third step, keeping your mind focused 100% on the trigger operation before, during, and after the shot. Only if you have mastered these three technical areas will you be able to shoot a 10.
The other day, I asked a shooter, “XYZ, do you know how to shoot a 10?”He was sitting in a group, and since he had been shooting for the last two to three years, he had a reasonably okay score of 550 or thereabouts. His ego was challenged when I asked him the question, and he said, of course, I know how to shoot a 10. No problem.
I said are you sure? He said yeah, I’m sure. Okay, good for you I said. The next day, when I was getting into my car, I saw this boy approaching me, who had a very diffident attitude.
I asked him if he wanted to speak to me, to which he replied, “Yes sir, I want to talk to you regarding the question you asked me yesterday. When I returned home and went to sleep, I thought about your question. Truthfully, I can tell you that I am not sure; I’m not 100% sure whether I know how to shoot a ten”.
I said that’s an excellent first step. You have to realize that you don’t know how to shoot a ten because if you don’t know how to shoot a ten, how will you achieve your goal for every shot?
So the first step is to ask yourself: do you know how to shoot a 10? And then you must learn to repeat that for every shot you shoot.
