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Had a great day today with Lanny Bassham, the Olympic gold medallist. Lanny took time out from training US shooters and PGA golfers to deliver a seminar to British Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls, plus support staff and other internationals from a range of shooting disciplines. I found Lanny's book "With Winning In Mind" to be a great help during preparations for the Commonwealth Games, so it was great to have a chance hear his mental programme delivered from the horse's mouth, especially since he's never visited the UK before. Most international shooters consider the mental game to represent between 60 and 90 percent of the challenge, but it rarely receives a corresponding amount of effort. If you want to improve your mental game in competitive shooting I think Lanny's book is well worth a read.

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The book is apparently also available as a download from http://www.mentalmanagement.com
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Good to hear you enjoyed it Rox, I went through a whole week of similar in the form of lectures, discussions and tasks some 15+ years ago, also run by an American who had also written a book and also trained Olympic athletes (Must be a different person as this was in the UK!) I initially found it very alien in many respects, always felt slightly uncomfortable about the way things were run and walked away 5 days later feeling slightly numb....

At the time I was a very keen climber and despite my scepticism about such things soon found myself applying what I had learnt to my sport, and it worked well for me. Looking back now I wish I had paid more attention during that week.

ovenpaa wrote:I went through a whole week of similar

A week of psych! Wow!

I guess it's partly because this guy is a shooter that his approach is so readily applicable. In the past, both books and classroom-based sports psych have left me wondering what do I actually need to do when I'm training/competing to improve my mental game?