Warming Up

[Bradley Clements]

I find myself struggling to get my eyes to focus properly and follow the clays with my gun when I first start in the morning, after the second stand I am absolutely fine, but the damage has already been done on the first couple of stands.

Does anyone have any little exercises they do before starting to help get on the ball straight away?

(Quite new to the sport so any tips, no matter how obvious and mundane they might be would be hugely appreciated)

Brad

 

[ips]

stand behind another squad and watch the targets with your eyes not your head in other words keep your head as still as possible this should exercise the eyes and get you warmed up.

 

[EdLyons]

My first thought would be to make sure you have an up to date eye examination to assess what your vision is doing

 

[westley]

Start in the afternoon ?

 

[Doctor Lecter]

early night  keep hydrated    no firewater   sorted !

 

[ips]

early night  keep hydrated    no firewater   sorted !

bollox to that ?

 

[chippy]

early night  keep hydrated    no firewater   sorted !

What ruin a Saturday night just to hit one or two more on a Sunday.

 

[Jeremy Baker]

Shoot the pool shoot. 

 

[Hamster]

I find myself struggling to get my eyes to focus properly and follow the clays with my gun when I first start in the morning, after the second stand I am absolutely fine, but the damage has already been done on the first couple of stands.

Does anyone have any little exercises they do before starting to help get on the ball straight away?

(Quite new to the sport so any tips, no matter how obvious and mundane they might be would be hugely appreciated)

Brad

I've read the replies and some are useful but I had to bite my own tongue and not chirp in the obvious if not silly : start on the second stand. 

If as you say the problem completely disappears after the first stand then I fear the cause is far more psychological than materially to do with your eyes or focus. Almost all of us have the bogey bird syndrome or simple things that we keep telling ourselves we don't like, the common one being I hate slow rabbits  :mellow:  which when analysed is in fact a very simple shot and should certainly not cause more than one miss if you get the rhythm right.

By the same token many have simple trigger phrases which they've learnt to utilise as a way of clicking their brains into a positive go mode in order to tackle each and every stand. I personally seem to do better than expected when I look at a difficult bird and murmur to myself : I fancy that (as in I reckon that's doable) This is what I feel you should be doing. You need to eliminate the negative message which you have created for yourself and accept that what you think about the first stand is actually nonsense  , pick an easy stand, mentally prepare for a positive outcome (create your own magic trigger phrase if need be), take your time in preparing for the shot and calmly go for a 90% success rate (this is to avoid over pressuring yourself into making mistake born out of tension). 

 

[chippy]

I personally seem to do better than expected when I look at a difficult bird and murmur to myself : I fancy that (as in I reckon that's doable) 

I hope her husband doesn't hear you. 

 

[Les53]

bollox to that ?

Agree mate............

 

[ips]

Agree mate............

i went to dentist for check up on wed, she said are you still on same meds, I say yes. She says do you still smoke five cigars a day I say yes (depends how big they are though) she says do you still drink 28 units per day, I say no I bloody well don't 28 per week maybe, she says well your records say per day.

there is a moral somewhere but not sure what

 

[Les53]

bollox to that ?

Agree mate............

i went to dentist for check up on wed, she said are you still on same meds, I say yes. She says do you still smoke five cigars a day I say yes (depends how big they are though) she says do you still drink 28 units per day, I say no I bloody well don't 28 per week maybe, she says well your records say per day.

there is a moral somewhere but not sure what

Why the hell should a dentist need to know how much anyone smokes or drinks anyway? You go there, they do the work, they rob you blind! End of!!! All part of this big brother world we live in, I hate it.  :angry:

 

[ips]

no idea mate.

 

[EdLyons]

Why the hell should a dentist need to know how much anyone smokes or drinks anyway? You go there, they do the work, they rob you blind! End of!!! All part of this big brother world we live in, I hate it.  :angry:

Really?! Well...maybe to get an awareness of risk markers for Pharyngeal, Oesophageal and Laryngeal cancer to name a few...

Those busybody, pain-relieving, possibly lifesaving money-grabbing *******s eh?

 

[ips]

ye what he said ?

thing is if I had croaked it they would have looked at my records and concluded I was a raging Alco consuming a bottle of spirits per day. This could have effected medical statistics ?

 

[EdLyons]

Yep! 26 units a day would be going it a bit, unless you were an 1980's darts player, then that'd be just for starters!

 

[Les53]

ye what he said ?

thing is if I had croaked it they would have looked at my records and concluded I was a raging Alco consuming a bottle of spirits per day. This could have effected medical statistics ?

I did ask my dentist about all this info a year or so back, he said he had to get questionnaires filled in because the Govt said he must! 

 

[Sian]

Ips there is a serious side to that - make sure it is changed and make sure it does not show that on your Dr's records because there are consequences at renewal time.