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Do I stay or do I go?
In this video from the "Ask Bob" video series, Stella asks if you are having a bad day shooting, the gun doesn't feel like it fits right and you're not hitting targets that you normally hit or expec...
Miss? What Miss?
In this Ask Bob video, Wyatt asks Bob: "How do you keep a good game/mindset when you miss a target in the box or the whole event?"
Watch Bob's response as he gives a strategy for visualizing the targ...
Shoot - Don't think
In this "Ask Bob" video, Channing’s question hits a nerve with respect to that period of time just before the shot where shooters can feel a bit panicky.
Random thoughts can come to mind such as:
...How do you control your mindset in a shootoff?
In this "Ask Bob" video, Chloe asks Bob how to best control your mindset in a shootoff.
Bob answers her question comes in two parts. The first suggestion starts way, way before you get into a shootof...
Comments that distract your focus in your shooting sport
Trap shooter, Gloria asks Bob: "The other day I was going out to shoot and someone made a comment. How do I get that out of my mind and get my mind back on shooting?"
Bob answers Gloria's questio...
Is Trap Shooting 90% Mental?
Spencer, a young trapshooter, asks Bob Palmer, CEO and high-performance expert with SportExcel the following question:
"Is shooting clay targets 90% mental?"
Bob answers Spencer's question in th...
SportExcel's five rules to make visualization effective
Bob Palmer, CEO and high-performance trainer for SportExcel, shares his five rules to make visualization effective in the shooting sports.
Clay target consistency - Quickly adjusting to any target or background
Trapshooter, Drew asks Bob Palmer: How do you adjust between different trap clubs, be it different backgrounds or different target setups?
In the video below, Bob Palmer, High-Performance Expert...
Building Zone concentration in the shooting sports
This month I received a question from trapshooter Frank:
I have a lot of concentration problems but I feel like I may have changed my mount in the last week or so and I can't seem to get back to wh...
Perfecting practice in the shooting sports – Quality vs Quantity
Tom asks: During handicap I dropped 7 targets out of 50! I had not dropped that many targets during any of my pr...
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Bob Palmer
SportExcel CEO and High-Performance Trainer
SportExcel Founder and CEO Bob Palmer is a high-performance expert and author. Bob founded SportExcel 30 years ago because he discovered a better way to help athletes create more mental consistency, resiliency and fun in their sport. And, after working with thousands of athletes in more than 50 different sports, at all levels of expertise, their success in competition is the proof that the SportExcel Zone formula works. Bob’s athletes have achieved podium success in the Olympics, Commonwealth, Pan Am, and X Games, as well as in many developmental, collegiate and recreational sports.
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