The winter months are when most shooters lose the fitness they spent the summer building. Matt Gay's drill column is the case for using a single five-stand to come out of the off-season sharper than you went in.
Five drills, each addressing a different failure mode that shows up under pressure. The first one is straight gun mount under a metronome cadence. The fifth is a self-imposed two-second commit window on every release, no exceptions. The middle three address the failure modes that show up most often in the score sheets he has reviewed across a season of coaching.
Print, read, run them through February. The March opener will tell you whether they worked.
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