EatMeerkats Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 How to Avoid Choking under Pressure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Limitless13 Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 That's good stuff. It would be interesting to see it applied to shooting, though most of the parameters are the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimlakeside Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 "...Oudejans recommends devising a high-tension practice regimen appropriate to your particular performance situation." If I understood the article correctly training under the same kind of pressure as one would experience at a match is the answer. How to duplicate that experience in practice would be the trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFlowers Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Jim, Put a $1000 in an envelope. Set a goal for your "practice" match. If you meet the goal, you get the money. If you don't your kid gets to blow it on XBox Games. Created enough pressure yet??????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
want2race Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Drink 4 Red Bulls and do 100 jumping jacks before your practice session. Since that's what I feel like at big matches, that's how I practice (at club matches). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micah Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Drink 4 Red Bulls and do 100 jumping jacks before your practice session. Since that's what I feel like at big matches, that's how I practice (at club matches). Lol, Bill does that before every stage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el pres Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Funny, it took all those doctors and scientists to come up with same thing that our host a whole group of IPSC shooting books have been saying for 15yrs ?? Now to only apply that thought, ....I mean no thought to the next classifier stage ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlamoShooter Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 How many of you figured out the label of the article is counter productive? One sure way to choke is to try and avoid choking. Learn to enjoy pressure. One trick is to do some self talk , but do it out-loud. Like at your next practice set Say out-loud " I am going to shoot all As fast" Try not to look over your shoulder to see if someone is watching. If someone Is watching its a better drill. Create a challenge for your self every chance you get. You may be real surprised at how much pressure a self challenge spoken Out loud can be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtm Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Second large match I ever shot ( S.O.F. World Championship 3-gun), me and my teammates made it to the team shoot off. Now this was back in the years when the shoot off was just before the big firepower demo. There were about 250 people in the grand stands, plus all the 4 man teams, and the good friends of the match staff that were mostly Gunsite instructors. Back in those days it was sudden death elimination. The first round was a shaking experience, second round I knew the crowd was there, 3 round...the finals against team Armalite (John Cook, Bennie Cooley Jr., Mike Voigt, and Todd Salmon) and the crowd didn't even exist......Yea We lost, but after that I never had "match pressure again". Relax and just shoot is just so easy to say, but sometimes it takes a BIG shock to the system to get there! Untill you find your own way there it can be quite a struggle. KurtM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glen Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 At first glance, I completely misread this thread title. ... Avoid Choking ...... posted by EarMeerkats. Glen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KGentry Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 How many of you figured out the label of the article is counter productive? One sure way to choke is to try and avoid choking. Learn to enjoy pressure. One trick is to do some self talk , but do it out-loud. Like at your next practice set Say out-loud " I am going to shoot all As fast" Try not to look over your shoulder to see if someone is watching. If someone Is watching its a better drill. Create a challenge for your self every chance you get. You may be real surprised at how much pressure a self challenge spoken Out loud can be. So that is what you were doing at the match!! I did not want to say anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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