In today’s training we were 2 coaches working with one and one atlethe together. My colleague and i decided that we were going to look together at the scatt working with one and one atlethe. That is a challenge since we have different opinion about shooting, but its a nice challenge. One by one atlethe tried the scatt and one by one got different task as homework to next scatt test. But mostly commend challenge for the atlethe was that they pulled the trigger without letting the holding get stable in the 10. It was almost as they pulled the trigger on the way down to the target. When this work we often see atlethes shoot fantastic. But we also see they don’t shoot that fantastic with the same technique. It’s all about the timing and that is harder to make if a little bit more stressed of different reasons. So we “forced” to athlethe to hold (without taking down or shoot the shot). By just holding until we said, take down the atlethe could see how long and stable the holding was. After seeing this we tried to make them hold a little longer before releasing the shot (see picture under the text). We also esplained how far out the main holding were in the 10 if they had pulled the trigger there. And this was a little “shock” for the atlethes. The next we tried was to see if they could hold longer and pull the trigger when it felt correct for them. After getting that under control we made them shoot on normal target and we changed atlethe on the scatt.

The next atlethe had the opisite challenge. This atlethe was holding to long so it became a little bit bigger movement right before pulling the trigger. Every time this happend. We made the same process about just hold and no shooting. The atlethe saw the same picture and we tried to make the atlethe pull the trigger a bit faster with same preperation for the shot. So it is just the aiming time that should be a bit shorter. This atlethe we told to try to keep a harder press on the triggerpoint before releasing the shot. We also notice that even the holding was good there were small tensionmovements when we looked closely to the green line. So it was “easy” to understand that this was the reason for why the atlethe was aiming a bit to long. Did not trust the holding because of small tension challenges. The atlethe confirmed that in a little talk. Another thing with this atlethe was discipline.
But that will be another session. When this atlethe manage to have less aiming/triggering periode and a bit more discipline the atlethe will shoot fantasic. “Easiest” way for an atlethe to shoot more points is to learn disclipline. That you can show the atlethe by taking the worsed shots in a match (let us say it is 5 shots (8,5-8,7–8.9-9,1-9,3) and the atlethe shoot 603,5 in that match. The avarage shot is 10,05 aprox and we can say 10,0. If we now change the “bad” shots with the avarage (not best shots, but just the avarage) the atlethe get 5,5points more. And by having disclipline on those 5 shots the chances are bigger to actually manage that (so this is a little tip to teach the atlethes, disclipline).

The lession for the last atlethe to next scatt time is to manage to shorten the aiming/triggerrelease. To make this step by step the atlethe get this workingprocess to work on. First to shoot shots in a pelletcollecter while being in position as normal. Focus is the aiming/triggerrelease. After doing that go to a target and shoot. 10shots before looking if papertarget, if electronic target and having a shotgrouping target use that. And then go to the normal target.