Touch - The Essential Skill : Sporting Clays Article by Dan Schindler

July 15, 2008 - PRLog -- Ah,-the life of a shooting coach. Sleep late, shoot all day, see you tomorrow, do it again. Really? Who thought that up? A busy coach typically has little time to practice. He, or she, is busy taking care of their students. This same teacher understands sporting clays inside and out, respects what makes it challenging and knows what it will take to move you ahead.

Students arrive with a list of factors to be considered, possibly adjusted, and a universe of opinions and questions. It's all part of the dynamics of sporting clays and the challenging and gratifying learning curve. Good teachers untangle thoughts and simplify the shooting process.

Looking for simplification, Reese decided to come down from Canada and visit with me. Relatively new to sporting clays, if it was out here to be read or looked at, he had. While there's certainly merit to exploring and studying, understandably Reese was more than a little confused. He was thoroughly confused. Reese could quote from every how-to source out there and tell you who said what and why. And that information, assembled as best he could, he then tried to put into his game. Discouraged with his efforts to comply with a mere 27 swing thoughts, and the endless missing that followed, Reese concluded there had to be a better way.

First, Reese and I sorted out what he could keep and what he could safely discard. I suggested he reduce his swing 'to-do list' to 3 easier steps, assuring him that would yield an X. He did. And it did. Reese was especially pleased, surprised that you could break a target consistently with 3 instead of 27 steps.

I believe in matching a reliable shooting method to a specific target presentation. Pull-away is a staple method. It was here that Reese stumbled as he was used to using his many (many) 'recommended' methods to establish lead..

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This Sporting Clays Article was previously published in Sporting Clays Magazine by Dan Schindler in July 2007.

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Sporting clays continues to be an elegant sport born of long tradition, fulfilling our wingshooting passion to experience the wing and shot. Feather and clay, inescapably tied, grants us so many learning opportunities to hone our skills, a path of personal growth that affords us a refreshing, unbiased look at ourselves. Time and again, my students have learned how entirely more capable they are than once thought. The American sporting clays shooter can honestly and proudly say, in a very short period, he has indeed advanced to take his rightful place among the best in the world. And, let's not forget, no one is having more fun out here than you and I are.

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The Paragon School of Sporting, established by Dan Schindler in 1994, is a prominent Sporting Clays and Wing Shooting school specializing in Sporting Clays instruction, Sporting Clays instructor training, and lessons for the Wing Shooter.