Ben's teaching style is fine. I was never bashed in class for making mistakes. Plus, this is a training course. We're supposed to be making mistakes so that they can be corrected. Part of that *is* performing under pressure and your mental game. We're there to learn and learn I did. A lot.
Pressure isn't an instructor problem, it's a student problem.
Kita - The pressure is all self-imposed. When we were doing six-reload-six dry fire I was doing fine until I saw Ben walking down the line out of the corner of my eye. *I* put pressure on myself to do better when the wheels fell off and dorked the reload. I put too much conscious thought into the whole thing instead of just executing the drill.
Also, the more you're under different kinds of pressure, the easier it is to ignore.
I botched some stages at the Carolina Cup last year because of cameras on me … by the time Nationals came around a couple months later I was able to ignore that stuff. A buddy said, "I wouldn't have been able to shoot with all those cameras around." I ended up not even noticing them.
So, shoot more matches to get used to the pressure. It goes away as you focus more on the execution. Participate in more classes and accept that you'll make mistakes (esp mental one's) and you will indeed learn through experience on how to ignore the non-shooting related stuff and focusing on the fundamentals.