Hi I'm retired Navy SEAL Chris Sajnog the author of Navy SEAL shooting and one
of the top 20 most frequently asked questions I get is how can I stop
flinching or anticipating now start your timer as I'll share five ways to stop
flinching or anticipating in today's five and under 5 FAQ
all right when it comes to shooting and problems that people experience while
shooting some people for a lifetime of shooting that thing is anticipating or
flinching when they shoot especially with a pistol and I'm gonna give you
five ways that you can eliminate that in a relatively short amount of time and
way number one is to take the free 30-day dry fire challenge on my SEAL
training app so just go ahead and download the app it's absolutely free
and there's a free course on there that is called the 30-day dry fire challenge
and it's gonna give you every day a challenge and steps for you to take to
help you not only become a better shooter but also eliminate that flinch
or anticipation when you're shooting all right so number two on the list is
to stop telling yourself that you always flinch or you always anticipate when you
shoot I get these emails all the time that people are telling me Oh Chris I
always do this or I always do that well we are the stories that we tell
ourselves if you tell yourself you always do it well guess what you are
always gonna do it your mind does not want to let you be wrong so it's gonna
figure out a way to make your body anticipate or flinch every time you
shoot so start telling yourself this story that you want and don't say I
don't flinch or I don't anticipate because our mind doesn't understand
don't or anything like that okay just tell yourself what you want I'm a great
shooter and that's all you need to do and then start practicing the other
things on this list to help you stop flinching or anticipating all right so
number three is learning to meditate now why is this important well because if
you're more present with what's happening at the moment that you pull
that trigger and the gun goes bang you are going to be less likely to flinch or
anticipate because you're going to be in the moment you're not going to be
thinking about what happened before you're not going to be thinking about
what's about to happen right with that anticipation you're going to be in the
moment you're going to be focused on the front sight you're going to be thinking
about your breathe and just relaxing and the gun goes bang
and everything works out perfectly you will also learn about meditation if you
take that 30-day dry-fire challenge that I made to you so again go ahead and
download the seal training app it's on iOS or Android and again it's absolutely
free start doing that training start meditating all right so next up along
those same lines is to breathe when you shoot a lot of people when they teach
shooting or maybe when you learn shooting you were told by your
instructor to actually hold your breath while you shoot and you know I think
back in the day I was taught this and I probably taught it many years ago but it
just doesn't make sense breathing's gonna help you relax the
more relaxed you are the less you're going to anticipate or flinch when you
shoot so just breathe normally that's going to help you relax and it's going
to get rid of that flinch or anticipation
all right last up is to just have patience if you've had a flinch your
anticipated for the last 30 years that you've been shooting don't expect it to
go away after meditating or dry-fire training for one day it's just not going
to happen now if you're training properly it's definitely not going to
take 30 years for it to go away but you need to be patient and give your body in
your mind some time to build new neural pathways that don't have a flinch or
anticipation built-in with it because that's what's happening if you do this
all the time is you have a neural pathway that when you pull the trigger
something in that neural pathway part of it says okay I need to flinch or
anticipate so we need to create a new neural pathway take some time be patient
and it will happen you will get rid of that flinching or anticipation all right
so that is it for today's FAQ remember to use these five techniques to stop
your flinching or anticipating and please check out my other 19 5 and under
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