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FURTHER COACHING TIPS

 Have fun!
 Attend your club shoots regularly.
 Try to use the same club gear every week.
 Keep referring back to a checklist, as a reminder of the basics discussed above.

 Read the guides and documents on the TRA website.
 Discuss shooting techniques with your range staff and fellow shooters.
 Experimenting to perfect your positions and technique is good but change only one thing at a
time, then test and analyse with the coach.
 Take part in as many competitions as you can – remember these are graded so there is nothing
stopping those starting out from competing.

 When you have your own equipment, practice as much as possible.
 Learn about dry firing from the coach.

Tracking your progress:

A shooting diary is a very useful tool to help improve your skills. After any shoot record such things as:
 what produced the good shots

 how you felt when you shot well and not so well
 what you learned about the competition or training

 any changes made to your position or technique

 details of the range, the time of the match or training, the weather conditions, the scores and
equipment settings.

Athletes at all levels will often refer back to their diary before important matches, when things start to go
badly, to get them back on track, or after an excellent shoot to record a new or amended technique.

It is also worth keeping track of your scores each week and hopefully you will see improvements over
time.

Score improvement is not just a case of getting the practice in at the range. Many athletes will carry out
research on techniques, position etc. in their own time and apply this at their next range visit.

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