Posted On: 03-31-2020
Teams can participate in this challenge with teams having
the greatest number of activities completed by April 17, 2020 at midnight being
awarded three cases of shotgun shells. The
team award package may grow.
You are first required to complete both activities in BLOCK
ONE, and then you may do as many (each individual can enter once supporting
your team) activities as you like.
Should there be a tie a random drawing will make the selection.
Many of the activities require multiple days to complete the
activity. Make sure you follow through
and complete each activity fully.
CHECK UNLOAD
PLEASE BE SAFE – TAKE THE TIME TO MAKE SURE YOUR GUN IS
UNLOADED AND THE BREACH IS OPEN. DOUBLE
CHECK AND BE SURE TO REMOVE ALL AMMUNITION FROM THE GUN CASE OR AREA YOU ARE
PRACTICING IN.
Please note: your parents are to proctor your activities and
confirm you have competed each.
BLOCK
ONE – Must do both but can do other block activities simultaneously
- Include your parents in watching at least one
video on shooting trap – this can be accomplished through YouTube. Here are the criteria
- Must be at least 15 minutes in length – can add
several together
- Youth Shooter and parent must discuss the video
- Cannot be a video listed here for other
activities
- Both must discuss what the video could do to
help the youth shooter
- Gun mounts – CHECK UNLOAD
- With parents counting do 50 mounts each day for
one week
- Total 350 mounts required – grow to 1000 a week
(optional)
- Discuss the benefit with your parents
Pick at least five of the following exercises you can do at
home and with your parents as your proctor have them approve that you completed
the tasks. You may pick from each block
or do several in one block, but keep track so you can input them later. When you are ready to submit, go to the link
below and check off the exercises you completed. For each team the more exercises you do the
more chances your team has to win.
All activities are due to be competed by April 17, 2020,
however they can be submitted prior to April 17, 2020 at Midnight.
BLOCK TWO
- Visualize – Be positive
- Spend 15 minutes visualizing from the time you
arrive at the range through pulling the trigger (pick a range of your choice)
- Visualize the place, people, smells, weather
- What can you hear? Mower, birds, conversations,
- What does the trap house look like?
- Close your eyes and concentrate on pre-shot through
pulling the trigger
- Visualize seeing the target – what did you see –
be specific
- Visualize the target breaking, did you feel the
recoil?
- How did your gun feel? Smells, noise, movement
- Repeat each day for a week 7x
- Know the field
- Take the time to draw the field on a piece of
paper
- Know the angles and distances overall
- Know the possible angles on each station
- Discuss the field with your parents
- Exercise – CHECK UNLOAD
- Hold your arms straight out and rotate your body
fully right and left (50 times)
- Take your firearm and with both arms straight
forward lift your gun over your head 50 times
- Take a 30 minute walk – with parents too
- Have parents count your repetitions
- Clean your firearm- CHECK UNLOAD
- Take it apart and clean it thoroughly
- Show your parents how you did it or ask their
help to learn more
BLOCK THREE
- Breathing exercises
- Use the one of the methods provided in one the
MYSSA website
- Rules of trap shooting
- Download the ATA rules book and read it
- Have your parents quiz you
- Write down your likes and dislikes about
competitive shooting
- Share and discuss with your parents
- Prepare to pattern your gun
- Know what a good pattern looks like
- Decide how you will pattern your gun and what to
look for
- Understand Point of Impact
BLOCK FOUR
- Snap caps or spent hulls –CHECK UNLOAD
- Put a dot on the wall and swing to the dot both
left and right and pull the trigger
- Have someone shine a tight light spot on the
wall for you to follow
- Work on a soft trigger pull
- Do this 20 times over the week with parents
counting
- Know your gun – CHECK UNLOAD
- Measure your length of pull
- Discuss what you learned with your parents
- Wrist exercises – CHECK UNLOAD
- Using just your wrists rotate the gun up and
down 50 times each day for a week
- Have parents count and record
- Practice the routine of shooting – CHECK UNLOAD
- Take your gun out of the case
- Pretend which post you will start on
- Walk to a line and place your feet
- Visualize the broken target
- Do this 100 times in one day – only do once
BLOCK FIVE
- Arm curls with 5lbs
- Find something that weighs five pounds (potatoes)
- Mirror Exercise – CHECK UNLOAD
- Stand in front of a mirror and mount your gun
- Watch where your eye is on the barrel
- Do this as many times as necessary to determine
when fatigue changes your eye location – 25-50 minimum
- Discuss what you leaned with your parents
- A penny for your thoughts – CHECK UNLOAD
- Place a penny on the barrel just behind the bead
- Practice raising the gun to a full mount
smoothly
- Do this 100 times during the week
- Be a champion
- Visualize what it would be like to win
- What did you do to deserve the medal
- Discuss this with your parents
BLOCK SIX
- Pre-shot Routine – CHECK UNLOAD
- Develop this and practice
- Make it something you can do repeatedly
- Execute it 25 times each day
- Show it off to your parents
- Pre-Shoot Routine
- Write down what you need to take to a shoot and
put it in your shell bag
- Write down what will you eat
- Write down how much sleep will you get
- Write down your thoughts on being mentally
prepared
- Share this with your parents
- Post Shoot and Practice De-Briefing
- Get journal and write down how you practiced and
shot
- Do this even for this at-home practice
- Who did you talk to about your shooting
- Was the feedback positive
- Goals
- Write down goals for when you return to shooting
- Write down ways to achieve those goals
- Write down what is important to you in your goal
setting – aspects of shooting, mental, exercise, focus, concentration
After
you have completed five or more of these exercises plus the required Block One,
please complete the following survey.
You
may need to cut and paste this URL
https://forms.gle/KnCzFENCTTg1MvBGA
Finally
have fun and take care!
David
Vaught, Ph.D.
Executive
Director
Missouri
Youth Sport Shooting Alliance