shooting faults after a target

[Nicole Hamilton]

Instead of "freezing" think of it as "continuing to shoot the shot THROUGH the release (instead of UP TO the release)

Indeed, though the reason I use the word freeze when addressing beginning shooters is because I generally find them even less able to relate to the notion of continuing to hold past the point where the gun fires. (Because any cartridge gun is going to recoil, they don't understand how you could continue your hold on a moving gun.) What I see all the time, e.g., in the beginning pistol and rifle classes I teach, is new shooters "bouncing" their fingers off the triggers and immediately dropping the guns. It's blatantly wrong, not off by a little. Telling them to freeze while the gun settles back into position is an instruction they usually seem more able to understand and follow.