Sport Psychology in Silhouette

[jneihouse]

Gee is that a Thanksgiving invite Commander Kitty???

You bet...c'mon down

Kitty

[BCloninger]

You could set up the air gun range! Next day we could have the sport psychology seminar, leftovers for lunch, and then a trip to the range, so this could work!

[Trent]

That would be a pretty neat weekend!

[jneihouse]

Sounds like a plan....long time till thanksgiving thoough

Kitty

[BCloninger]

Gotta get through the season before this group will have time to sit down and pay attention. Or pretend to pay attention anyway! And even then they have to be bribed with food and range time.

[Bob259]

................. And even then they have to be bribed with food and range time.

Life is good !!!!

[BCloninger]

Let's see, plan to fly into Tulsa, then charter an F Troop shuttle bus?

[Innocent]

I see where the priorities lie...First shooting then food, then shooting, then food...wonder how the psychologists would handle this?


Innocent

[shakes]

You all talking about some crazy with a gun? and trying to figure out what goes through his head HAHAHAHA!!!

[BCloninger]

Mary, the schedule is food, shoot, seminar, food, and shoot. See how that works?

Shakes, no way am I trying to get inside any of y'all's heads! Especially if Marv shows up! Just too many kinds of crazy here...

[Innocent]

Mary, the schedule is food, shoot, seminar, food, and shoot. See how that works?

Tha should be food, shoot, drink, sleep, food shoot....


Innocent

[ShooterP14]

Mary, the schedule is food, shoot, seminar, food, and shoot. See how that works?

Tha should be food, shoot, drink, sleep, food shoot....


Innocent

When at Winnsboro, "BS" is tucked in there too and more than once.

[BCloninger]

When at Winnsboro, "BS" is tucked in there too and more than once.

You are correct sir. I apologize for the oversight - BS is inevitable with this group.

[Innocent]

I thought BS was all the time, sleeping included.

Innocent

[RBriscoe]

I recall visiting with a shrink who doubled as a Sports Psychologist for the U.S. Biathlon team while at a Hunter's Pistol Nationals some years ago who put out an occasional article on the mental aspects of shooting. He was an interesting sort, but I think he had encountered a crowd that was more interested in sports pharmaceuticals than sports psychology.

There are lessons to be learned from a comprehensive sports training program, but silhouette is a recreational sport and rather few people actually make the commitment to devote the amount of time and effort required to elevate their performance. (Translation: sports psychology for silhouette would be a very small market IMO.)

If your wife is interested in sports psychology, the silhouette crowd would probably be an interesting case sturdy. There are so many of us making so many mistakes. Seriously though, there is probably a larger market opportunity by reaching out to a variety of other sports as well. There are a lot of "inner game" aspects of golf, tennis and so on. In golf, for example, maintaining self control is an issue. I believe it was "Terrible Tommy" Bold, the PGA golfer who was known to wrapping clubs around trees and other available targets of opportunity during a competition round. Once he threw his golf bag into a water hazard in the middle of a round. Upon reflection, he realized that he needed to finish the round and had to wade in after the bag. (By then his caddy had taken cover.)

It might be interesting to approach the Olympic Training Center to see if there are opportunities there. There are worse places to live.

The bottom line is that there is a certain amount of psychology involved in sports, a belief system if you will. I recall Bela Karolyi looking at one or other of his gymnasts after an ankle injury on the next to last pass on an event. The girl's face clearly conveyed a message of fear, pain and doubt. He simply said "You can do it!" She went out and did it, whereupon he carried her off the floor because the ankle was too painful to walk on.