This Is How the Shooting
Champions Do

“When I was an aspiring junior shooter at the beginning of my shooting career, my coach kept telling me to diligently write down everything I could think of after each practice. I must say I was against this idea. I didn’t see any sense and had no joy in noting anything else besides my scores and besides drawing statistical graphs – if they pointed upwards, of course.

But as a good pedagogue, my coach also encouraged me to think with my own head. This is why I quickly began understanding that it is sometimes clever to leaf through your old notes and that they come in handy when things don’t go the way you wish and plan.

Today, I am eternally grateful that he kept pushing and insisting. After long years, my sports shooting “library” now holds countless notebooks, pads, even single sheets when I had nothing else close at hand. They are full of notes with present-day value. For example, when I take a break and have to polish my technique in the first months of a new season. Or in the competition period when I am thousands of kilometres away from home, preparing for an important match, and deciding for the best tactics regarding the expected changes in wind during the time of the competition – and am lucky enough that I competed at the same range two years ago and patiently noted down all the good and bad conditions.

Živa and Sonja have my congratulations for their excellent idea, but also for realizing it and publishing their Shooting Notes that will allow sports shooters to systematically record all of the important and useful parameters for their personal (and the coach’s) monitoring and preparation for practices and competitions.

Extremely useful – I would recommend Shooting Notes to everyone from the youngest to the most experienced shooters.”