Concentration

[Camille Eonich]

A routine at the loading table is good too just don't let yourself get too caught up in it like I  did at one time.  Then if something did happen to throw off the routine I would get out of sorts.  I still have a routine but if something happens to screw it up I realize that my whole stage still remains to be shot and isn't going to a go all to hell because I had to make an extra trip to the cart.   

Like if Dingo lost his "lucky vest".


No negative thoughts.  NONE!  That's one the best ways to break your concentration or to divert to somewhere it doesn't need to be.

[Tensleep]

At the loading table I load my guns like RRR looking at every bullet,

THEN... I watch myself shoot the stage in my mind.

I try for clean stages cuz I ain't fast... BUT I am gonna start wiggling my toes after I load. If it werks for Sidekick...

[Adirondack Jack]

Target order, SEE the transitions, then while on deck I tell myself "just shoot the danged stage, one round at a time" (Don't OWN the rounds. Once a round is fired, don't even look, it's gone.  Move on.)

[Daniel Nighteyes]

We were taught that the energy generated by that tension, if properly used, would make our preformances  strike sparks.  So I am not sure that you want to get rid of the tension entirely.

Yup.  Properly channeled, it is a tremendous ally.

-- Nighteyes

[Adirondack Jack]

Yup.  Properly channeled, it is a tremendous ally.

-- Nighteyes

Tension, like stage fright, is an essential component of a virtuoso performance.  I believe (though I ain't there yet) if ya have yer essential elements down to rote, and ya channel the tension into "propelling you through the performance" ya can make magic.

I'm at a stage where I really "glue together" maybe two out of five stages where folks will say "that was a good run" as I finish, and scores put my (duelist) performance in the top 7 or 8 out of fifty overall, and well ahead of the other duelists.  I just need to get enough elements ironed into memory firmly through that nasty "P" word, that I can string five of them kinda stages  in a row

My "goal" of late s to beat the perennial NYS Ladies champion (who shoots two-handed using well-tuned guns and light .38s to my .45s). I beat her ONE out of five at our last monthly shoot.  If I can hold even with her while shooting duelist, Im gonna be "getting there".