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Shooting Cookbook
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What You Get:
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- Shooting Games: This CD delivers three computer games, Accuracy, Speed and Concentration, designed to improve your shooting ability while you have fun. Excellent gift for younger shooters. The CD also contains a Read-Only copy of the Shooting Cookbook, including special sections on: Elements of Shooting, Recoil, Follow through and Automatization together with 90-plus Shooting Drills. Over 200 pages of text and illustrations in Adobe Acrobat format (PDF) indexed for keyword searching
- Print version: This is a printed and bound version of the Shooting Cookbook, including special sections on: Elements of Shooting, Recoil, Follow through and Automatization together with 90-plus Shooting Drills. Over 200 pages of text and illustrations.
- CD Combo version: The printed Cookbook, plus a CD. The CD contains all of the Shooting Cookbook, including special sections on: Elements of Shooting, Recoil, Follow through and Automatization together with 90-plus Shooting Drills. Over 200 pages of text and illustrations, including over 90 Drills, in Adobe Acrobat format (PDF), indexed for keyword searching, together with the three computer games, Accuracy, Speed and Concentration, which are automatically installed on your computer. This CD also includes the original PDF file for printing the Shooting Cookbook.
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Accuracy: This game is designed to develop the sight-picture-shoot reflex. It is a Biathlon simulation. It has a standard biathlon target which can be set for Prone or Standing shooting. The mouse icon is a standard ring sight image. The user can select various levels of difficulty. The degree of accuracy required to score a hit increases as the difficulty level increases. Also, the amount of wobble in the sight picture increases with level of difficulty. The shot location is reported for each shot, together with the elapsed time.
Concentration: This program improves an athlete's ability to concentrate or focus on a single task to the exclusion of distractions - an obvious benefit for shooters. It consists of a grid filled with numbers. The numbers are in sequential order, but distributed randomly in the grid. The task is to check off each of the numbers in sequential order as quickly as possible. Various levels of difficulty are provided, ranging from a 6x6 grid where the numbers disappear when checked to the largest grid, where 4 minutes is a very good time.
Speed: This program works on sight picture recognition and speed. The mouse icon looks like a standard ring sight and the targets are arranged in an 8x8 grid. Arrows on the top and side point to a particular target. The objective is to shoot 8 targets as fast as possible. Competitors can choose to shoot the targets in Rows, Columns, Diagonals or in a Random pattern at increasing levels of difficulty.
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Design Principles |
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The following principles guided the writing of the Shooting Cookbook:
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Shooting skills can be taught and improved in a systematic way.
Skills or elements of the shooting process should be learned, assessed and improved in isolation, in an environment that focuses on process.
It is essential that athletes practice the complete skill as soon as possible. Shooting bullets is important for the integration of separate skills into the shooting performance. We also believe that shooting should be continuously monitored and analysed for ways to improve the elements of the complete performance.
The emphasis in shooting training should be on the process of shooting, not the outcome. During training, the outcome (where the bullets went) is only important as feedback for improvement.
The coach should observe and analyse an athletes shooting technique, using external symptoms to deduce possible causes of problems, so that they can bring this to the attention of the athlete and/or prescribe corrective action.
Athletes should be taught how to analyse their own shooting technique and learn to share their observations with the coach. Many of the symptoms of incorrect or incomplete shooting skills are not readily observable from the outside; observation and introspection on the athlete’s part is essential to improvement.
Automatization of skills requires repetition; much repetition. Repetition makes permanent, so coaches and athletes must make every effort to practice only correct procedure.
It is worth disrupting an established automatization in order to learn a better process that can then be re-automatized at a higher level of performance.
First, you have to have the motor skills that allow you to shoot a perfect bullet. Mental training cannot substitute for mastering the motor skills necessary to an excellent shooting performance. Mental training is vitally important to shooting 60 perfect bullets in a row, or shooting five-for-five after skiing 5km flat out
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System Requirements |
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486 PC
32MB RAM
6Mb disk space
CD-ROM drive
Microsoft Win95® or Win98®
VGA Monitor
Mouse or equivalent pointing device.
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Acknowledgements |
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Biathlon BC, its coaches and athletes.
Biathlon Canada, its coaches and athletes.
Peter Crawshay, Shooting Coach, Team BC, Target Sports
Vadim Sashurin, World Cup Winner, World Champion, Biathlon.
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