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Mind vs Target: Six steps to winning in the clay target mind field

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The time is ripe for you to learn the proper way to train the mind, using Bob Palmer’s revolutionary system that utilizes the state of mind called the Zone.

Bob has been teaching world-class shooters to get into the Zone for more than a decade, and now he has written the ultimate book for winning. Bob holds nothing back in his quest to give you a step-by-step approach to winning that is understandable and easy to learn and literally takes your moments of brilliance to your whole game.

Palmer steers you away from of the stuff you usually find in books - the psychology of emotional issues, progressive relaxation and breathing techniques, where you are forced to be conscious and think. As Bob says, “Great shooters don’t think – they just shoot.” And his clients are using the system to win at every level, from the Olympics to local and national sporting clay, skeet and trap championships.

Mind vs Target is a system that teaches you to get into and maintain the Zone. And it is full of tools and tips that, for example, allow you to make distracting people disappear and clay targets appear as big as garbage pail lids. Beginners find it fun and exciting, as everything is new to them. Advanced shooters, such as 13-time World Skeet Champion Paul Giambrone III, like how it entrenches the feeling of the Zone.

No matter if you’re a world-class shooter, a weekend enthusiast, a beginner, a coach or a parent, Mind vs Target needs to be a part of your clay target arsenal.

185 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2013

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Bob Palmer

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“Committed to making high performance accessible to everyone, SportExcel’s Bob Palmer has distilled the “game of high performance” into practical, repeatable strategies that participants can immediately understand and apply to their "game" to build success in any area of life---sport, business or education.”

Bob Palmer, BEd, BES, is the founder and high-performance trainer of SportExcel Inc., with more than 30 years of experience developing athletes, coaches and industry leaders to become true high performers, across all areas of life. A 4th-degree black belt, former sensei, and competitive martial artist, Bob has personalized high-performance training so that the athlete or leader becomes the expert and can guide themselves (as well as their team) to a high performance in every type of game or business,

The author of five books on high-performance, Bob’s proven and trusted system ensures that athletes, coaches and leaders enter the Zone on demand and learn and apply the highest levels of skills in sport participation and business/sport leadership. He has helped leaders build a culture of the Zone in organizations such as the US Army Marksmanship Unit and Canada Snowboard. He has guided countless athletes to Olympic, international and national podium finishes, including a recent U.S. international clay-target selection match where all four gold medalists had previously trained with him.

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Bob shares several methods to calm your mind and get in the zone, which has been a struggle for me when competing. I don't do well with books that try to implement meditation during sport because it's unrealistic to expect the type of atmosphere that requires that type of quiet mind. His methods take some practice at home in a quiet setting, but can be used at any point thereafter.

This isn't a book you read once, but instead something you use as a tool chest. Read it, highlight in it and make notes. You'll thank yourself later.
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