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Tips & Hints of the Week # 4 – Practice Makes Perfect, or Does it?
Posted by Junior Shooters
By: Andy Fink
Practice, practice, practice – that is what you hear from coaches and parents in just about any sport and that includes the shooting sports. Another common term that is used is practice makes perfect. Hmm, not always true. A more realistic application would be perfect practice makes perfect. Think about this for a moment. If you are doing the wrong moves, trigger pull, hand position, body position, draw, or placing the gun on your shoulder during your practice session then you are just reinforcing bad habits.
Before you start practicing a particular technique you might want to go over what you are doing and why. Get an adult to help you and confirm that you are doing the technique the right way before continuing your practice.
There will be times during your shooting experience that you will actually need to change a particular technique whether that is how you shoot a particular stage, hold a firearm, draw, bring your sight picture into alignment, or any number of items. Just remember that it takes almost 1,000 times of running through a change to your technique until the previous habit is fully broken and the new technique becomes completely natural.
Now, practice all you can, but practice perfect.
Shoot safe & have fun.
Copyright & Published By: Junior Shooters & Junior Sports Magazine Inc. June 2009
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