breathing

[aahunt03]

What is the general consensus on when to inhale or exhale when making those longer shots?

[Steve RA]

Inhale and hold your breath, don't take so long for the shot you pass out.

[vinceislander]

I inhale slowly until sights are on target. Then hold or slow my inhale even more and take the shot. What I try not to do it take a deep breath as I'm trying to get on target cause it take too much time, tend to tense up and hurry the shot.

[CSStreett]

Your supposed to breath during a COF?

[Jshuberg]

When lining up a long distance shot, I take one or two deeper than normal breaths, and exhale around halfway to a muscle neutral position. There should be no tension in your chest, you don't want to hold in a full breath or completely exhale, just find that comfortable quiet place in between. Taking a few deeper breaths increases the oxygen level of your blood slightly, which increases the amount of time that you can hold your breath before your mental focus begins to wane do to a lack of fuel.

The reason you want to hold your breath during a precise or distant shot is that doing so calms the mind, and allows for a hightened clarity of focus for a few brief seconds. Normally our minds are bubbling away with all kinds of other thoughts in the background. Think of it as a boiling pot of thoughts just below the conscious level. When your hold your breath, calm and empty the mind, and put your attention on one single thing (sight alignment), it's like turning down the heat and reducing that boil to a low simmer. The result is less mental clutter and an increased ability to focus. Holding your breath by itself will help with precision shooting, but you'll get the most out of it when you also learn to stop thinking, to calm the mind and let that few seconds of increased clarity flow through you.

[aahunt03]

When lining up a long distance shot, I take one or two deeper than normal breaths, and exhale around halfway to a muscle neutral position. There should be no tension in your chest, you don't want to hold in a full breath or completely exhale, just find that comfortable quiet place in between. Taking a few deeper breaths increases the oxygen level of your blood slightly, which increases the amount of time that you can hold your breath before your mental focus begins to wane do to a lack of fuel.

The reason you want to hold your breath during a precise or distant shot is that doing so calms the mind, and allows for a hightened clarity of focus for a few brief seconds. Normally our minds are bubbling away with all kinds of other thoughts in the background. Think of it as a boiling pot of thoughts just below the conscious level. When your hold your breath, calm and empty the mind, and put your attention on one single thing (sight alignment), it's like turning down the heat and reducing that boil to a low simmer. The result is less mental clutter and an increased ability to focus. Holding your breath by itself will help with precision shooting, but you'll get the most out of it when you also learn to stop thinking, to calm the mind and let that few seconds of increased clarity flow through you.

wow, I had no idea. Thanks for the great info!

[scooterdog]

I breath at the beginning of the stage and at the end. It helps.

[a matt]

short FAST breaths when you are moving. Do what Eric says below when pulling the trigger. Do it as quick as you can cause it will take to much thought and that equals time. work on it in dryfire. Sorry I didn't read you whole question. Do my post when moving. Lol. Then do Eric post when you are pulling off the shot. Lol.

Cheers.

Edited November 9, 2014 by a matt

[Aircooled6racer]

Hello: On long tight shots slowly exhale through your mouth. Other than that breath normally. You have to breath or your vision will suffer. Thanks, Eric