Standard 10m Air Pistol Instructions

After sharing his rapid fire pistol instructions, coach Santiago Gómez Salgado dives sent me these training notes to help me in my progress to the standard 10m air pistol Belgian national finals, as I was facing the regional classification match (spoiler: I got into the nationals).

ISSF Rules for 10m Five-shot Air Pistol

This is a transcript of the ISSF’s rules for 10m five shot air pistol that can be found in their website as a downloadable PDF under Sports for all. I’ve taken the liberty of publishing them here so that they are easier to find and to use from our mobile phones.

Santiago’s Recommendations to a New Air Pistol Shooter

After getting Santiago’s last training plan and working on it for a couple weeks we had a call to discuss some basic recommendations to improve my technique as a new shooter (this was back in 2017). This is what he proposed:

Two Week Pistol Training Plan To Improve Shoulder, Balance, Hold, and Trigger Execution

The next training plan from Santiago Gómez Salgado was done after using the prior pistol training and spending three days training on site with him in Spain. These are the main areas he identified I had to work on:

Notes From Three Days in Person Pistol Training With Santiago Gómez Salgado

important meeting for me, as it was my first ever in person training with a real pistol coach and not just with pals at the range. These are the notes I took during training.

10m Air Pistol General Training Plan

I’ve already shared the first 10m air pistol plan I received from Santiago López Salgado, the first pistol coach I managed to get a hold of. I’m going to share all of the training plans that I got from him here, and I think that these notes he sent me can help you understand…

Trigger Decision Group Training (Technical, Mental, Physical)

Last Monday we finally had a group training with the Mental-Objectif-Perf (MOP) group of shooters under the direction of Daniel & Aurore Goberville. It happened right after an MOP competition the day before where other shooters and I had trouble with starting too slow and having issues with trigger decision and execution. So the training focused on the trigger.

Florian Fouquet: se recentrer sur soi et ses sensations

Florian est un super tireur français avec une curiosité d’ingénieur. Il a déjà gagné une coupe du monde de pistolet sport en junior. Dans cette interview il partage sincèrement pas mal des aspects techniques et mentales de sa façon de tirer. À lire et à suivre sur Instagram. https://youtu.be/ZrbKzQ2BAGk Quand et comment avez-vous commencé le …

Inband Air Electronic Target Review

During these times of hardship with the coronavirus lock downs and the ranges closed, a lot of shooters are looking into setting up ranges at home to keep on practicing and also to complement the opening days of their clubs in order to be able to train when they can independently of opening hours. Most …