Gil Ash
Well-known member
in team sports the coach gets the credit for the success and then gives the credit to to the individuals on the team....in individual sports the coach should never get the credit because the coach does not make the sacrifices in time & $$$$ and efort that the athlete does....golf tennis chess running.....when someone wins a tournament when they get the tropyhy it is theirs... they can thank others but they won it and they deserve it....
Remember this....you cannot trust anyone more than you trust yourself.....
It is the athlete that takes what the coach explains so he/she can understand it clearly and then begins to work on changing their habits and reactions ....... truth be known the top shooters all have someone they confide in.....some more than others but just like how much they practice and how often and what they practice they are not going to tell you or anyone else....why should they when they were the ones that asked for and paid for the help in the first place or they were the ones that developed the practice routines that they use to give themselves consistently great performances......... why would they tell you who or what they discovered that helped them become a champion ?..... it might help you beat them........
no one is mentally tough "naturally".....that is something that some get at an early age maybe due to things that happen in their lives....death of a parent or close encounter with loosing your life.......that is one of the purposes of school athletic programs.....and also why many colleges require extra curricular activities for admittance.....at the end of the day just like public speaking you can understand how to talk and can even talk without thinking but to have a conversation with 10,000 listeners changes things in the beginning. .....however after you have DONE IT A HUNDRED TIMES THERE IS NO FEAR AND YOU BECOME CONFIDENT...
Had a lesson with a professional Bass Fisherman a few years back and he already knew how to compete from fishing all he needed to know is how to shoot.....because of his efforts he already knew what it would take to make the new habits his and he went about doing it.....in no more than a year he was in the 80's and then in another year in the 90's....the principals of performance are the same regardless of arena......in order for anyone to be able to perform at a high level it takes an openness to change and a greater tolerance of failure and set back....rather than looking at failure as a life sentence they all look at it as an opportunity to learn and in learning become better......some people learn more quickly that others and that would be a matter of attitude... .......
Confidence and competence are brothers.......they come from courage and determination......eventually you will get to a point when you will actually say to yourself......what will happen if i miss this target....if you look to the east in the morning the sun will still rise......you will give into fear enough times and shoot not to miss and you will have to admit to yourself that checking the lead dont work......it is at that point that you summon the courage to be determined to do something different regardless of what the result might be.....and regardless of result you learn from it and move on......
have a student named Ken that was contemplating lens replacement for cataract .......in discussing this with another client who was a retired surgeon at a clinic in Denver last month Ken expressed concern about the proceedure and the retired surgeon said the procedure is simple with little or no risk for complications......which was true but when the retired surgeon found out that Ken had only one eye he immediately said......then in that case you want to have it done by someone who does 3,000 or 4,000 cases a year not someone who does 400 per year.......hummmm experience.....now where have we heard that before.....
never give up your right to fail and having failed learn from it and move on......
confidence and consistency cannot be practiced.......they are the residue of practice.....when you become competent at anything you become confident and when you are confident you become consistent........
again you cant learn skill from someone....you can be inspired to become skillful by someone.....you can gain knowledge from someone that will help you become skillful in a shorter amount of time.....you are not born with skill because skill is an insulated Neuro-circuit and the insulation grows by firing the circuit over and over correctly...........it is a job and you must work at developing it........it is much like how I have learned to view trust......my uncle Rodney Chambless told me one day years ago...."Nephew trust is a gift.....when you meet someone and you shake their hand you give them your trust, but from that point on they have to earn it..."
FEAR
Failure to
Effectively
Accept
Results
failure is the first step in the learning curve......and in performance how you handle fear determines how well you perform.....anyone can handle hitting the target.....it is who you become when you miss that determines how far you go and how quickly you get there!
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career....I've lost almost 300 games.....26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed......I've failed over and over and over again in my life and THAT is why I succeed....Michael Jordan
it is not what yo know that makes you better.....it is what you are willing to learn...
remember the conflicted shooter and the two things he absolutely hates????.... 1 Change.......2 The way things are
Question......when was the last time you actually did something for the first time.......????????????
GA
Remember this....you cannot trust anyone more than you trust yourself.....
It is the athlete that takes what the coach explains so he/she can understand it clearly and then begins to work on changing their habits and reactions ....... truth be known the top shooters all have someone they confide in.....some more than others but just like how much they practice and how often and what they practice they are not going to tell you or anyone else....why should they when they were the ones that asked for and paid for the help in the first place or they were the ones that developed the practice routines that they use to give themselves consistently great performances......... why would they tell you who or what they discovered that helped them become a champion ?..... it might help you beat them........
no one is mentally tough "naturally".....that is something that some get at an early age maybe due to things that happen in their lives....death of a parent or close encounter with loosing your life.......that is one of the purposes of school athletic programs.....and also why many colleges require extra curricular activities for admittance.....at the end of the day just like public speaking you can understand how to talk and can even talk without thinking but to have a conversation with 10,000 listeners changes things in the beginning. .....however after you have DONE IT A HUNDRED TIMES THERE IS NO FEAR AND YOU BECOME CONFIDENT...
Had a lesson with a professional Bass Fisherman a few years back and he already knew how to compete from fishing all he needed to know is how to shoot.....because of his efforts he already knew what it would take to make the new habits his and he went about doing it.....in no more than a year he was in the 80's and then in another year in the 90's....the principals of performance are the same regardless of arena......in order for anyone to be able to perform at a high level it takes an openness to change and a greater tolerance of failure and set back....rather than looking at failure as a life sentence they all look at it as an opportunity to learn and in learning become better......some people learn more quickly that others and that would be a matter of attitude... .......
Confidence and competence are brothers.......they come from courage and determination......eventually you will get to a point when you will actually say to yourself......what will happen if i miss this target....if you look to the east in the morning the sun will still rise......you will give into fear enough times and shoot not to miss and you will have to admit to yourself that checking the lead dont work......it is at that point that you summon the courage to be determined to do something different regardless of what the result might be.....and regardless of result you learn from it and move on......
have a student named Ken that was contemplating lens replacement for cataract .......in discussing this with another client who was a retired surgeon at a clinic in Denver last month Ken expressed concern about the proceedure and the retired surgeon said the procedure is simple with little or no risk for complications......which was true but when the retired surgeon found out that Ken had only one eye he immediately said......then in that case you want to have it done by someone who does 3,000 or 4,000 cases a year not someone who does 400 per year.......hummmm experience.....now where have we heard that before.....
never give up your right to fail and having failed learn from it and move on......
confidence and consistency cannot be practiced.......they are the residue of practice.....when you become competent at anything you become confident and when you are confident you become consistent........
again you cant learn skill from someone....you can be inspired to become skillful by someone.....you can gain knowledge from someone that will help you become skillful in a shorter amount of time.....you are not born with skill because skill is an insulated Neuro-circuit and the insulation grows by firing the circuit over and over correctly...........it is a job and you must work at developing it........it is much like how I have learned to view trust......my uncle Rodney Chambless told me one day years ago...."Nephew trust is a gift.....when you meet someone and you shake their hand you give them your trust, but from that point on they have to earn it..."
FEAR
Failure to
Effectively
Accept
Results
failure is the first step in the learning curve......and in performance how you handle fear determines how well you perform.....anyone can handle hitting the target.....it is who you become when you miss that determines how far you go and how quickly you get there!
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career....I've lost almost 300 games.....26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed......I've failed over and over and over again in my life and THAT is why I succeed....Michael Jordan
it is not what yo know that makes you better.....it is what you are willing to learn...
remember the conflicted shooter and the two things he absolutely hates????.... 1 Change.......2 The way things are
Question......when was the last time you actually did something for the first time.......????????????
GA
so difficult to accept we are wrong and so unwilling to make the change, even when its our own brain telling us to do it :crazy: 
