Book on Mental Aspects of Pistol Shooting

[Gwhite]

Anyone have any info on this?:

http://www.rfpsport.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html

The author says:

"For the last 7 years I've been working with elite level sport shooters building confident and consistent performance through mental training. Recently I have completed, Bullseye Mind, a mental training book written specifically for sport shooters. The book details the principles of mental toughness, dispels myths, and provides information and skills for shooters to use their minds more effectively.

Each chapter concludes with a short contribution from an elite-level shooter or coach. Many of the contributors are Olympic Gold Medalists and World Champions like Matt Emmons, Jamie Corkish, Vincent Hancock, Brad Balsley, Alex Chickhov, Morgan Craft, Nicco Campriani, and Petra Zublasing."

[left360]

I just received the book, haven't started reading yet, so no review of contents. FWIW, it's about 6" by 9" and 124 pages.

[ChipEck]

I bought it and am about half way through. Not exactly light reading. There are some excellent tidbits.

Chip

[trinity]

Ouch, shipping to Canada is more than the cost of the book!

[Magnus DUX]

Highly recommended.

http://www.amazon.com/Winning-Mind-3rd-Ed/dp/1934324264

[les greevy]

Bullseye Mind is a very good book.
It is well organized, repeating and interweaving fundamentals.
It applies not only to pistol but the other shooting disciplines as well.
Les Greevy

[Pat McCoy]

I just finished reading it, and found it to be well organized, and covering all the mental things it took me over thirty years of reading, coaching, and USAS coach colleges to learn.

Well worth the money for shooters or coaches.

[yana]

Interesting book!
Tnx for the link.
No doubt sending to europe will be costly too

[BobGee]

Its over US$30 to send to Oz...

Bob

[apron]

Its over US$30 to send to Oz...

Bob

I am paying the same - shipping it to Hong Kong , so I collected an order of 4 copies , so to share the shipping cost.

[left360]

Bullseye Mind is a very good book.
It is well organized, repeating and interweaving fundamentals.
It applies not only to pistol but the other shooting disciplines as well.

I just finished reading it, and found it to be well organized, and covering all the mental things it took me over thirty years of reading, coaching, and USAS coach colleges to learn.

Well worth the money for shooters or coaches.

I finished reading the book and I have to agree with the quoted opinions. Well written, organized and easy to read and understand. Among other things, it has the best description and techniques for visualization that I've read.

Creedmore Sports carries it as well as the other listed venders.

[Gwhite]

I finally had time to go through "Bullseye Mind". I think it makes a good overall reference on the mental aspects of shooting, and if I were to recommend only one book on the subject, this would be it. We've bought 5 copies to form a "lending library" for the team I help coach.

I think a serious shooter can benefit from other perspectives on the subject, and there are quite a few good books that I feel cover some aspects a bit better. A lot of that may just be that I learned from them first.

The one other source of info that is REALLY good is the "On the Firing Line" articles by J.P. O'Connor. Plus, they are free. "Bullseye Mind" is 124 pages. O'Connor is up to Article #58, so at about 2 pages per article, there is a similar amount of material. Covering most topics in a single article, he doesn't go into as much depth in each one. However, there is more variety, and he presents common themes from different perspectives that way.

[Trooperjake]

I am 1/2 way through the book.
It is not much different than Lanny Baasham's Mental Management course.
Just lightly different way of saying it.

[left360]

Shooting Sports USA magazine has an excerpt from Bullseye Mind in the latest issue. The article Where Confidence Comes From is a good example of the content and writing style.