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Comments that distract your focus in your shooting sport
Trap shooter, Gloria asks Bob: "The other day I was going out to shoot and someone made a comment. How do I get that out of my mind and get my mind back on shooting?"
Bob answers Gloria's...
Is Trap Shooting 90% Mental?
Spencer, a young trapshooter, asks Bob Palmer, CEO and high-performance expert with SportExcel the following question:
"Is shooting clay targets 90% mental?"
Bob answers Spencer's...
SportExcel's five rules to make visualization effective
Bob Palmer, CEO and high-performance trainer for SportExcel, shares his five rules to make visualization effective in the shooting sports.
Clay target consistency - Quickly adjusting to any target or background
Trapshooter, Drew asks Bob Palmer: How do you adjust between different trap clubs, be it different backgrounds or different target setups?
In the video below, Bob Palmer, High-Performance...
Building Zone concentration in the shooting sports
This month I received a question from trapshooter Frank:
I have a lot of concentration problems but I feel like I may have changed my mount in the last week or so and I can't seem to get back to...
Perfecting practice in the shooting sports ā€“ Quality vs Quantity
Tom asks: During handicap I dropped 7 targets out of 50! I had not dropped that many targets during any of...
Why do we do well in practice but panic in competition?
Trapshooter, Jim asks SportExcel CEO and high-performance expert, Bob Palmer: “I'm pretty good in practice how do I stop panicking in competition?”
Bob Palmer answers Jim's question...
See the Target...Hit the Target: Using Peripheral Vision to pick up the Target
Trapshooter Alex asks Bob: "How do I stop my bad habit of moving my gun before I see the bird come out of the house?"
Bob gives his training tip in the following video and also has the written...
Taking time off from your shooting sportā€”use it or lose it
A year ago in mid-summer, my wife went on a cruise with her parents and daughter, while I drove 5,000 miles across the country to several US clinics and saw lots of beautiful scenery. ...
Training to compete: From calm practice into turbulent competition
My friend Dan is a white-water canoeing aficionado, not at an Olympic level, but for fun. Now that he is retired and has more free time, four or five times a year he travels across Canada and...
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Bob Palmer
SportExcel CEO and High-Performance Trainer
SportExcel Founder and CEO Bob Palmer is a high-performance expert and author. Bob founded SportExcel 30 years ago because he discovered a better way to help athletes create more mental consistency, resiliency and fun in their sport. And, after working with thousands of athletes in more than 50 different sports, at all levels of expertise, their success in competition is the proof that the SportExcel Zone formula works. Bobā€™s athletes have achieved podium success in the Olympics, Commonwealth, Pan Am, and X Games, as well as in many developmental, collegiate and recreational sports.
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