Dan Schindler's Blog

Sep

2019

5 Key Understandings To Breaking More Targets

Shooting is really simple... “It’s not the will to win that matters — everyone has that.It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.” – Paul “Bear” Bryant 1. Accept that the cost of ...

Aug

2019

5 Tips to Shoot Higher Scores

5 Tips to Shoot Higher Scores Manage your misses—don’t let them manage you. Shooting expectations are like steps to your goals—don’t make them too high. Fear and doubt can neutralize gun skills. If you ...

Aug

2019

Miss Wisely

Includes a few words of advice from Michael Jordan, Vince Lombardi...A very long time ago in my martial arts training, we were taught Katas. A Kata is a long series of choreographed moves—blocks, strikes, counter moves—a feigned physical ...

Jul

2019

6 Inches Between You and The Target

We get hungry, we eat. No one needs to set the alarm for that; we know when it's time for coffee or a Rueben. We know because our body tells us and our mind directs us to the pancake house or Ribs R Us. All – or almost all living species ...

Jul

2019

A Blinding Flash of the Obvious

SEEING IS BELIEVING! The owner of a small company was being sued by an injured employee. The employee – who worked in the warehouse – declared he was injured in an accident and was no longer able to raise his hands ...

Jun

2019

The Vince Lombardi Shooting Method

“The only place that success comes before work is in the dictionary.”Vince Lombardi The Green Bay Packer football team lost the 1960 NFL Championship in the last minute, heartbreaking loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. When training ...

Jun

2019

Shooting in the Dark

Please consider the following test. Blindfold tied on securely – have someone walk you to your car and stand you by the driver’s side front door. With your hand on the door handle – totally in the dark – you’re on your ...

Jun

2019

Dan Schidler is Marty Fischer's Guest on Wing & Clay Nation

Jam-packed with Valuable Information and Startling Revelations for shooters of all skill levels! Episode Description It's not every week that Marty gets to discuss the ins and outs of clay shooting with a shooting coach who's been doing it ...

May

2019

If I'd Only Known Back Then...

“It ain't what we don't know that gets us in trouble. It’s what we know for sure that just ain't so.”It was the early 1980’s. Hummelstown Field & Stream (HFS) was a small gun club in Hummelstown PA offering one Trap range ...

May

2019

What are you fighting in the Shooting Box?

Maybe it's time we take a slightly different look at what's affecting our performance in the shooting box? We're not talking about the gun, strategies, the shooting methods, or gun management. Here we're talking about what we think and feel in the ...

May

2019

Shooter: X Bully: 0

Humbled by the scores of teaching opportunities presented to me over the decades, I’ve come to realize how a few simple solutions answer so many student questions. By simple, I’m not implying the solutions are easy. I am saying, the ...

Apr

2019

The Story of Simon

The story goes like this…Simon’s been at the local tavern a little too long. It’s well after midnight and he’s definitely had a few too many. A storm is brewing and the walk home with his lantern will be a long one. Gloves ...

Apr

2019

X - The Miracle Medicine

"If we do not face our fears, they will rule us forever."~ Cheryl SchindlerA few years back, my wife Cheryl contacted a local organization that helped older foster children get adopted, about helping their youngsters overcome their fear of guns. You ...

Mar

2019

When The X is Fake News

X. We did good. Yes? A perfectly logical conclusion. And that conclusion might very well be leading us to missing targets. Understandably, a broken target leads us to assume that we did something right. I mean, there it is: X. That last swing had to ...

Mar

2019

You Don't Need Luck!

Did you know that each leaf of the four leaf clover has a meaning? Hope, Faith, Love and Luck. Our granddaughter, Samantha, has an incredible knack for finding them in our Flat Rock yard that sometimes is more clover than grass in spite of ...

Mar

2019

Drive-By Shooting

“Learning the art of the swing is the difference between X0X00XX0 and XXXXXXXX.”A drive-by shooting looks like this: X00XX0. And yet, many are still trying to break the target.Please consider: once the shot string leaves our ...

Feb

2019

Lightening Our Load

Too much thinking in the shooting box is like running on a treadmill; it gives you something to do but never takes you where you want to go. To add X’s, subtract thoughts.The woman appeared in the office door of the golf Coach. She was here ...

Feb

2019

Dirt, Steel & Clay

It’s a given, we all want to break targets and especially in competition with a scorekeeper behind us. That keeping score part very understandably introduces all kinds of distractions, stress and unwanted thoughts. I thought we might look at ...

Jan

2019

Dear Mr. Exo

As an Instructor, Coach and published writer, I’ve personally written maybe half a billion words on how I believe we can improve our shooting. I am deeply appreciative of the positive feedback I have received from my students and my readers ...