Practise : Routine

[Al-Nitro]

How many times do you shoot/practise week/month ?

Is there a specific routine you do, or do you just go out and shoot a number at each stand ?

Edit* just realised error in title

 

[jake.keeling]

At this time of year it's hard to do any meaningful practice. But when I do I would practice a specific target or a technique on a specific target for Sporting. Double trap I am currently doing the same thing because of the rule changes, but then hopefully by next year I will put it together into shooting rounds and the mental game. Summer months I would hope to shoot 200-300 a week, but often don't achieve this.

 

[Chard]

I never get round to doing any

I do one 100 bird registered shoot a week and that's about it.

No wonder I'm crap

I occasionally threaten to sneak off for a practice session somewhere but it seldom happens. The best laid plans of gift horses in the bush....

 

[Lock Stock & Barrel]

I'm lucky at the moment (that'll change in the New Year), as I get to shoot three times a week at various grounds around the North of England (Manchester, Goole, Cheshire, West Yorks, Cumbria, North Wales).

I've also been having a few lessons with Brian Clegg (bonzodogdoodaband), so I'm trying to improve in a number of areas, from routine, to mount, to lead to working on my bogey birds. Routine is vital.

 

[newbie]

just practice differnent aspects of my routine at present. usual rounds of 25 concentrating on technique or mental routine and prep.

 

[VicW]

I shoot once or twice a week all the year round, a mixture of Sporting and Sportrap.

I shoot very little competition and no registered.

Vic.

 

[Salopian]

I think that a mistake many people make is to think that just shooting at clays at every opportunity will improve their skill. Wrong! It may well ingrain bad style and form.

Money would be wisely spent by having lessons with a good instructor. Get the basics sorted and then progress from there. When you have identified your weaknesses as regard to targets that give you problems you do need to improve your ability and technique on those targets. Once you have a decent base to work off then it possibly will improve you if you can continue to train on a couple of hundred targets per week. But it is the technique and structure of the practice that is far more important than the quantity of targets shot.

You can shoot a hundred times at a bogey bird but then if you receive good tuition and hit four or five you will feel elated and it will do you far more good than the hundred misses groping in the wilderness.

 

[Al-Nitro]

Reason i ask the fact many other sports have certain routines, drills etc to improve when at practise.

Seeing if anyone out there has specific ones of which they use to improve on, or just the case of go out and play :smile:

 

[jake.keeling]

Reason i ask the fact many other sports have certain routines, drills etc to improve when at practise.
Seeing if anyone out there has specific ones of which they use to improve on, or just the case of go out and play :smile:

The Olympic shooters at the top, do have routines and drills etc, but us Mortals with jobs, responsibilities and bills find it hard to keep up, just like a Pub Football team compared to Man utd.

 

[Mark Jones]

Jake,

I see what you mean but am not sure I agree. I don't think it costs anything to have a solid routine and I have found even at my lowly level that it has helped me when I have let the pressure get to me(self induced I know!)Sure lessons and kit and training cost money but I think this is one area that dosn't. When trg we write down our routine down to the last little action and I was supprised how many points I could think of for mine. What I found most helpfull about this exercise was that it really helped with my visualisation. Guess it depends what you want from your shooting and if your into the mental side of it or not but just a thought?

 

[Will Hewland]

Al, I assume you mean trap? In sporting it is best to NOT practice whole rounds IMO, but better to practice the problem targets, or sort them one at a time. This could be a key strategy if you are a trappie and problem targets are the edge on aways. )

 

[Al-Nitro]

Al, I assume you mean trap? In sporting it is best to NOT practice whole rounds IMO, but better to practice the problem targets, or sort them one at a time. This could be a key strategy if you are a trappie and problem targets are the edge on aways. )

Will, i was speaking of all discaplines in general. But as it seems, there are different ways to tackle different areas/discaplines.

Once we have christmas and the new year out the way, i will surely be trying out trap and all the others.

 

[MX8man]

I think that a mistake many people make is to think that just shooting at clays at every opportunity will improve their skill. Wrong! It may well ingrain bad style and form

I agree. They say practice makes perfect but only perfect practice makes perfect

 

[jake.keeling]

Jake,

I see what you mean but am not sure I agree. I don't think it costs anything to have a solid routine and I have found even at my lowly level that it has helped me when I have let the pressure get to me(self induced I know!)Sure lessons and kit and training cost money but I think this is one area that dosn't. When trg we write down our routine down to the last little action and I was supprised how many points I could think of for mine. What I found most helpfull about this exercise was that it really helped with my visualisation. Guess it depends what you want from your shooting and if your into the mental side of it or not but just a thought?

Yes I agree with what you say here, I didn't get my post quite right. You can absolutely work on routine no matter who you are and it will absolutely make a difference. In my head I was including training camps etc that the top boys go on and turning up to a weekend comp on the Friday to find that a squad of shooters had been getting into their routine since Tuesday, all payed for. I'm Just jealous I guess.

 

[Andy]

How many times do you shoot/practise week/month ?

Is there a specific routine you do, or do you just go out and shoot a number at each stand ?

Edit* just realised error in title

I put a side one day a week to practise the flaws in my clay shooting; I identify areas from past shoots which require further development whether the flaw is in a particular bird, gun management or both. If I can’t isolate the problem I’m generally on the phone to arrange a lesson, it’s usually something simple which I’ve over looked but I must say there are some clays I could have shot at all day and never had hit them without the help of a instructor.

 I’ve found the mental game is the card to play with any form of sports I’ve undertaken, a soul belief in one’s self to succeed and obstacles are only a mild inconvenience along the way to obtain one’s goal, negative words for example doubt, not sure, don’t think so, should only be used in the pub i.e. I doubt I can drink another, having said that I can’t remember the last time I uttered that sentence.

For myself I look at clay shooting in only in one light which is to say, for the few clay shooting is a job for the majority it’s a pass time, a pleasurable pursuit, a sport, clay shooting as like most sports removes us from the pressures of real life for a few hours a week, why make a pleasurable pursuit as intense as our real world can be.

It’s true if we want to get better at shooting clays or any sport for that matter we have to set obtainable goals in a time frame that suits our life style and our pockets, it’s quite conceivable a routine could manifest it’s self as we achieve the goals we set .   

 

[EdSolomons]

Very good post!

 

[ips]

I shoot at least 100 OT practice on sat and then a 100 OT-UT-ABT comp on sun, sometimes shoot a couple of OT practice mid week if weather is nice and work permitting. I tend to work on specific things during my sat OT practice ie hold points, pre shot routine etc then try to forget everything during comp with the hope that my subconciuos remembers what I learned (if anything) during said practice.

 

[** Pending Removal **]

I shoot mainly practice, working on technique and the mental approach. I sometimes shoot other disciplines to remind myself that none of them are easy. I keep a log of each practice and what I have been working on....and the success or failure of what I was trying to achieve.... and whether it was due to conditions like light or cold or heat......or whether it was just an off day, or lack of concentration etc etc.

But most of all I love just going out to shoot....and get lots of pleasure getting to my goals or passing them...which is not often...mostly it is average but enjoyable.

 

[Salopian]

One thing to bear in mind when practicing, do not under any circumstances continually practice your mistakes, faults, bad style or anything that will not improve your ability.

It is absolutely no use at all to just go and shoot 100 high tower birds or whatever if you do not firstly identify your errors and put them right. Then by all means shoot a good number successfully to ingrain the right style, stance, and method into your subconscious memory bank.