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School sports is an exciting, competitive and rewarding area of life. While you’re at school learning so much more about life, things can often get extremely dull, don’t I know it!

School sports offer an excellent way to make new friends, rise in the social ranks, get to know more people and also to develop even closer bonds with your friends, which is so damn vital in schools these days, especially at the high school level.

Now there are many different sports in which you may wish to become a leader – and the tips I am about to share with you will apply to practically all of them. There may be some quirky sports in which the dynamics of the game structure and perhaps the lack of a team may mean that my tips can’t apply directly to your situation, but I am confident that you will still be able to apply the advice in one way or another to improve your leadership position within a school sports team.

So, what are the benefits of being a leader of a sports team? Why is it worth your while to use the following advice to become a leadership figure? Won’t it involve alot mroe effort, worry and time spent? Here are the benefits:

*The great feeling of being popular.

*The abililty to call on others for favours to help you out when you’re in trouble.

*Being able to grab the attention of potential girl/boyfriends far better.

*Experiencing the boost in confidence that comes with being a leader.

That is to name just a few of the many advantages to being the leader of the pack, and not one of the sheep.

Sports Leadership Tip 1: Don’t be afraid to stand out with confidence.

Everyone inadvertantly stands out through decisions they make, such as which clothes to buy, or which events to attend, or how to react to situations – but only those who react in their own way with strength and confidence in their actions, attract respect from others. What’s fantastic about this tip is that it doesn’t really matter whether your decision was an amazing one or not. Simply the fact that you did something different and stood by it proves that you have the leadership quality of being able to stand out. This isn’t to say that good judgement is also a necessary and important quality though!

Sports Leadership Tip 2: Work on your own skills in your own time.

You will need to be very competant at a sport to be able to be the team leader. You however DO NOT have to be the best on your team. As long as you have a SOLID set of skills, you are able to be a captain. Goal Keepers in soccer are often team captains, even though their soccer skills obviously won’t be the same as the rest of the team.

Sports Leadership Tip 3: Show a positive attitude.

At the end of the day – team leaders do not exist to simply give a frank, accurate and grim outlook on the team events. Instead, the team leader’s role is to see opportunities where others would not, and seize them to lead a team to victory. Not only will this lift morale, but it will also give your sports team an important competitive edge.

RECOIL DOESN’T B’..B’..B’..B’..B’..BOTHER ME ONE B’..B’..BIT!

OK, I understand this,…….sort of. Many folks put shotgun aesthetics at the top of their list. No arguments from me. A beautiful shotgun is a joy to behold, a masterpiece of craftsmanship, function and form, making it a delight to hold. Few “tools” deliver anywhere near this level of pride of ownership. I own one for upland hunting. So I do understand,……right up until all those “dynamite” loads take a trap, skeet or sporting clays shooter down with flinching, head lifting, debilitating neck and shoulder problems.

The affects of recoil are cumulative. It’s a price we all pay, some more than others by the choices we make. So it’s in our own best interests to mitigate recoil every chance we have. First are ammunition choices. Here, Lite loads get it done,….all day,….every day. 2 3/4 dram loads will help you shoot better and do it more consistently.

Try as they might, some just cannot buy into lighter loads. If you are one of those, consider modifying your gun. Some semiautomatic shotguns are a worthwhile alternative. There is a ton of aftermarket solutions to minimize recoil. Adding weight to the gun is a good start. My favorite way to reduce recoil is to add a recoil reducing system to your stock. A good hydraulic system, while not the most aesthetically pleasing, can easily reduce felt recoil by 1/3 and more. That’s a lot! For those who place a very high priority on performance consistency and match scores, I recommend the Precision Fit Stock (www.precisionfitstocks.com). Mine has been totally reliable,…..allowed me to fine tune my fit to a very high level of precision,…..and makes time in the box a downright pleasure.

Every shooter I’ve ever talked to who owned a recoil reduction system in their stock absolutely loves it. If you’re like me and so many others who run not hundreds but many thousands of rounds through our guns in a year, do yourself a favor and take a hard look at reducing recoil,…..every way you can. Your performances and your scores will thank you for it.

The full article is located at http://www.paragonschool.com/sporting-clays-tip-07-2010.html

An Index of all The Paragon School of Sporting Sporting Tips is located at: http://www.paragonschool.com/sporting-clays-tips.html

The Learning Curve – Long Or Short?

Where do our shooting skills come from? How are they developed and acquired?

With each trip to the course, each of us is building an inventory, or database, of muscle movements and sight pictures necessary to successfully complete a particular shot. At Paragon we call that,…..Familiarity. It is a mental inventory or database of sight pictures and swing movements – based on the target presentation in front of us. A presentation we will see again. And again.

Building this critically important Familiarity requires training and repetition. Have you considered how you approach building this Familiarity, i.e., target inventory?

Some do this by trial and error rather than deliberation and purpose. Through hunting, wing shooting, and trial and error on the Sporting course, this hit and miss process can develop some skill over the years. Yet improvements can be slow in coming, difficult and sporadic. Unguided practice tends to reinforce habits – good or otherwise – and progress on unfamiliar targets doesn’t always come. Sometimes, after a target presentation is attempted many, many times, Familiarity does develop. This is the longer, time consuming, random approach to skill development and Familiarity.

In contrast we have the shooter with a more structured approach. Skills are acquired and Familiarity develops as a result of practice sessions dedicated to something very specific in the set up and/or shot. This learning process incorporates shooting more deliberately. With each shot, X or O, this shooter focuses attention on the process of the shot, (gun movement, sight pictures, etc.) not the result (X or O). When a mistake is encountered, corrections are made, moving one step closer to the successful and repeatable shot. Similarly, the successful shot is noted and logged. Every shot has a purpose.

Each and every shot we make, X or 0, provides an opportunity to improve and develop Familiarity. Changing our approach can and will reduce the time necessary to develop the skills we desire. Incorporating more, better defined structure into our practice and training will move us away from Random and closer to Deliberate skill development – a much faster process.

The full, unabridged article is locate at http://www.paragonschool.com/sporting-clays-tip-11-2009.html

An Index of all The Paragon School of Sporting Sporting Tips is located at: http://www.paragonschool.com/sporting-clays-tips.html 

2 CRITICAL COMPONENTS TO A SUCCESSFUL TRAINING SESSION October 2009 Shooting Tip

It’s not uncommon to load up our gear, head to the range, stand in the first box and ask ourselves, “What do I want to work on today?” Consider a more productive approach.

To get us on the same page – 2 definitions: “Practice” is more about reinforcing and strengthening a skill already learned.  “Training” is all about learning and building an undeveloped skill.

1. Decide beforehand, specifically what technique, strategy, scoring skill or specific target presentation you want to work on. What presentation, distance and speed? Reading target lines more accurately — then holding those lines during the swing. Key to intercepting every target punctually – devote a session to marking more accurate, more advantageous “hold points.” How does our “gun mount” look? Do we own the best shooting method for the A bird? XXXXXX or X0X00X? The B bird? And the list goes on. No doubt a less formal approach to a training session may lead to some broken birds. But I’m wondering what our shooter would say at the end of the day if asked, “What did you learn today?”

2. The whole point of a training session is to take what we don’t do very well and learn to do it better — and more consistently. And that especially includes our form because here we’re working on a specific target presentation, one that is giving us difficulty. Go to that presentation. Now, maybe by one-third or one-fourth, decrease the distance to the target and/or decrease the target speed until we can break 1 out of every 4 or 5. Right there is where we should be standing. Not so far away that we can’t hit any — and not so close that we can break them all. The best spot to TRAIN on is just slightly outside the line where struggling begins. Just outside our comfort zone. I would rank this component in training as the # 1 most important to getting this shot right — and into our inventory. Consistently.

In closing, I cannot overstate the importance of # 2. Make sure you can hit the target some of the time. Standing on that spot, shell after shell, 0 after 0, might be torturous. No fun at all. To that I say — you’re right. But — do we really want this shot? These are the push-ups and sit-ups. Look hard. Find the gun mount, swing or strategy error. I guarantee you this. Patience and tenacity here will be rewarded. Your X% will begin to climb — if you keep working. TRAINING on that spot with serious repetition to find and correct the error is the absolute shortest and fastest path to the skill advancement you seek here. These are the building blocks to a complete game — and the consistency that everyone wants.

The full, unabridged article is locate at http://www.paragonschool.com/sporting-clays-tip-10-2009.html

An Index of all The Paragon School of Sporting Sporting Tips is located at: http://www.paragonschool.com/sporting-clays-tips.html

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