Target Panic!!!!!!!...there may be hope.......

[Lowe]

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[GILBERT]

[QUOTE=Low Fence;3663699]I have read on here countless threads about "target panic", and I too have suffered off and on with this horrible habit. And it usually leaves on its own with out ever allowing me to understand WHY is this happening? I have had it last almost a year once, making archery almost miserable (which anyone who knows me, knows it has been my #1 passion for 20+ years.

Well once again, like it seems to do. After shooting one of my best rounds in some time.......BANG! it hit me again and I knew this time was BAD!!! I have shot 3D for nearly 20 years and honestly can't remember the last time I missed a target.......and don't know that I have ever missed a target that I guessed the distance -/+ 2 yrds. But instantly i missed TWICE! Locked up a foot over the target....knew I was a foot over the target........and shot anyway. Over and over and over, I was sick.


Did a lot of reading on the subject, ideas and theorys, suggestions. Some good, some comical. But I have an understanding of MY type of "TP" now. Here are some tips I am trying.....and getting instant results!

Blind Shooting. I've done this a thousand times and I dont think it cures "TP" but is a manditory building block.

Stand in front of target you cant miss. Close your eyes, anchor, and put the pin dead center of the imaginary dot in you mind..........just hold it as long as you can. then concentrat on the release and follow through. do this until its borring.....then do it 20 more times!

This is the method that IS WORKING FOR ME:

Multiple Target Acquisition you can google it

Draw, and aim. Acquiring the target, but DO NOT SHOOT!, move off target and go back on target.and DON'T SHOOT!..........then let down and relax

Then do it again, this time acquire the target 3 or 4 times without shooting. Have finger on the trigger and pull thru just tell your self "I will not be shooting this target"

After a while aim 2-3 times and shoot WHEN YOU ARE LOCKED ONTO TARGET! then quit for the day. If you cant then keep aiming and letting down.

I had "TP" so bad this time, it took me a dozen attempts to aim and let down without shooting. I was telling myself" I'm not going to shoot".........and shooing anyway.Hope this helps someone. I'm sure it will come back, but knowing WHY maybe I can once again continue to shooting at my best.[/QUOT

LowFence,
All you are doing is trying to trick your brain...that is not the answer. Old man Al Henderson, Archery shooting coach back in AZ during the 60s, taught us the most simple method to cure target panic (I was shooting collegiate FITA comp then.) Gimicks and tricking your brain will not work. It can be cured, and never to come back.

I once tried to explain how Old Man Henderson's method works, and i got thoroughly slammed. IT WORKS like a charm. It will be hard work at first because you have worked real bad habits into your form for target panic to show its ugly face.

I suggest you look up Al Henderson, and maybe you can find one of his 2 books that i know of. Savvy grand old man.



GILBERT