Olympic / ISSF pistol coach and competitive shooter, sharing training plans, advice, and knowledge to international pistol shooters
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I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately about how to train my technique and mind for pistol shooting. My notes are a bit too extensive and it is difficult to refer to them in training to make sure that I act upon a few points beyond the goals of my training session.
A few days after creating this blog, I started having doubts about its name. I had originally called it Sport Pistol to highlight the sport part of the sport of pistol shooting, hoping that it would encompass all the disciplines I’m interested in. I then noticed that this was also the name of a single discipline and that it could be confusing.
The slump is tough. Since I got back from vacation my shooting stats have not improved. Some things have regressed, others are not getting better.
After a shooting test to see my trends, my air pistol coach (Santiago Gómez Salgado) sent this as a first generic training to get going before we met (I live 1800 km away). There are two training programs, one for home and one for the range. I’ve blocked three days a week to go to the range. This is complemented with one day training at home (total 4 days of shooting training per week). Physical training is not included in this.
Luckily for me my shooting range has air pistol electronic targets connected to a printer. Following the advice of Jean-Luc, from my very first day I’ve kept a copy of my results everytime I’ve shot a 60 shot competition in training.
If you are here you are probably a bit like me: a bullseye enthusiast that is trying to improve his/her marksmanship skills.
Today is the day! After a while of thinking about it, I’ve decided to launch the Olympic Pistol website to help others like me who love bullseye shooting and want to improve through training.
Olympic Pistol is about pistol training and learning: technical, mental and physical preparation for the ISSF pistol disciplines.
