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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...

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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.

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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...

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Perfecting practice in the shooting sports – Quality vs Quantity

I recently received an email from Tom, a trap shooter, with the following question:

Tom asks: During handicap I dropped 7 targets out of 50!  I had not dropped that many targets during any of...

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See the Target...Hit the Target: Using Peripheral Vision to pick up the Target

Trapshooter Alex asks Bob: "How do I stop my bad habit of moving my gun before I see the bird come out of the house?"

Bob gives his training tip in the following video and also has the written...

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Fitness is important in the shooting sports: Improve endurance, fun and health

Dale Gerlich, a trap shooter, asks Bob Palmer, CEO and high-performance trainer for SportExcel:

Is fitness important to great trap shooting?

In this video, Bob answers Dale's question.

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