Effectively Reacting to Shots

[WARFAB]

They say 90% of shooting is mental. I have a history of confidence issues when it comes to sports performance that dates back to my middle school days if not earlier. Since I usually focus on what I did wrong rather than what I did right, this article was interesting to me.

https://www.ssusa.org/articles/2016/..._campaign=0716

Given our culture, reacting to performance in this manner is no surprise. In fact, most of what we do embraces thinking this way. As children in school, our teachers highlight our mistakes by marking wrong answers with red ink. In sport, coaches point out mistakes and flaws in an effort to help athletes correct those mistakes and avoid making more mistakes in the future. Unfortunately, focusing on mistakes is not very effective for learning or improving—instead, it turns thoughts and the emotions associated with failure into memories that fuel later performance.

[usmcveteran]

I think a lot has to do with the person to. For most I would say positive training is most helpful just like when training dogs.

I know someone who of I talked smack started doing awesome in darts, if I said how awesome they were they did bad. So depending on if he was on my team or not would determine what I would say lol.