Contrary to what you see in the picture, the last few days have not been happy. My performance at the French national air pistol competition was very disappointing and it has taken me five days to accept the team medal and believe in that smile.
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Pre Competition French Nationals Training Plan For 10m Precision & Standard Air Pistol
To prepare next week’s French National Championship air pistol competition, Daniel brought in the MOP team for a full day to finish up our training. We trained for both precision and standard air pistol, and did a very interesting session to help us deal with the pressure and have sensible goals.
Interview with Paul Hughes, Sport Shooting Psychologist
Paul Hughes is a brilliant mental coach that I got to meet thanks to his posts on Instagram. Luckily, I got to be part of the first cohort of his course and it was totally worth it 🙂 My mental game has improved a lot and the tools he provided (review of the course coming soon) are proving helpful in my profesional and personal life. He’s been the lead psychologist of the Olympic Great Britain shooting squad among other positions and now he’s made himself available to the world 🙂 (contact details at the end of the interview). As a sports psychologist, he doesn’t work in isolation with athletes, rather directly on the range alongside shooters and coaches. His focus is on helping athletes to minimise psychological error and enable their technical skill to be delivered consistently.
Pistol Trigger Coordination Training Plan With Contrats
After my first training with Philippe Stiel and the discussion about contracts, he gave me this pistol coordination training plan to prepare for the coming competitions.
Contracts and Challenges Technique for Pistol Shooting Coordination
All the pistol coaches I’ve worked with use challenges and contracts in their training plans, usually adding more demand as competitions approach. After my first training session with Philippe Stiel he sent me a great email explaining contracts, so as to change my training plan and to improve coordination in training and competition. So far I’ve also worked with challenges and contracts with coaches Daniel Goberville, Santiago Gómez Salgado and Dina Aspandiyarova. This is my interpretation of their take on the use of challenges and contracts, with examples.
A Week of Progress Validation
Last week has been great with multiple personal bests. A lot of pieces have fallen into place and I saw progress in the three competitions I shot. This is what I’ve learned.
Florian Fouquet: Focus On Yourself and Your Sensations
Florian is a great French pistol shooter with the curiosity of an engineer., who’s already won the sport pistol World Cup as a junior. In this interview he shares a lot of technical and mental aspects of his shooting. Learn from him and follow his Instagram for more.
Physical Training Plan For Pistol Vacations
A general conditioning training plan, to maintain or improve physical endurance and some of the muscles that we use for shooting.
First Pistol Competitions of 2022
After a well deserved winter break getting some sun and good vibes in Madrid, training got serious quickly with an MOP session on January 3rd and the regional Picardie championships on January 7th. Full throttle as soon as I got back!