Brain Hacks For Better Shooting

by | Apr 16, 2018

Below is a description of a stripped down version of one of our military programs.  It focuses on the mental attributes to support the act of shooting, not the emotional hardening and management of aggressive fighting physiology involved in gunfighting.  Obviously there’s some overlap but this is aimed at the general shooting community like competitive shooters, firearms instructors, firearms enthusiasts and not just the professional gun-fighter.

After discussion with our legal counsel, we’re going to experiment with a few open enrollment classes along this line.

We won’t be taking this on the road right away as we want to run a few to refine and test curriculum.

If interested, please leave comments or questions in the reply below or if you prefer an email to marcus@accentusludus.com

Thanks!

Cheers, m

 Brain Hacks for Better shooting

 The performance of your BRAIN drives your BODY to excellence.  This course builds the mental platform talked about, but rarely trained, in traditional shooting courses.  The methods taught are proven in both competition and in combat.  The instructor is the leading authority in applying these methods to shooting.  After professionally training federal law enforcement and military special operations worldwide for the last 20 years, he is now opening up instruction to civilian shooters.

 Course Overview

  •  You will leave with a better ability to shoot under stress and a personalized practice program to reinforce your mental skills at home.
  • This is a one-day course.  We’ll do live fire, dry fire, experiential exercises, and a minimum of lecture.
  • This is NOT another shooting skills course like you are used to – it is a mental skills course that will ENABLE you to shoot better.
  • We put the latest in cognitive neuroscience research into easy to apply practical exercises proven to dramatically improve shooting skills.

 

Subjects Covered:

  • How your brain works when you shoot.
  • Brain hacks to make your brain work better.
  • How to manage stress before, during and after shooting.
  • Every high-level shooter talks about how valuable visualization is:  have you ever been taught how to manipulate your visual processing and improve it?  We do that.
  • How to refine your physical movement using your brain.
  • How to manipulate your brain’s processing so that “you have all the time you need…fast.”
  • Putting it all together with “Deliberate Practice,” a method of self-training used by master performers in every field and profession. NOTE:  one of my colleagues, a naval special warfare instructor, pointed out that what we do is combine Deliberate Practice AND Deliberate Play (ala Cote) so for all the training-neuroscience nerds out there, that’s a better description of what we do and how we are different. (Edited 17 Apr 2018)

Sample Day:

  • Safety briefing
  • Live fire baseline drills
  • Introduction to concepts and overview of the brain
  • Visualization skills
  •  Stress management skills to mitigate stress before, during and after shooting.
  • Kinesthetic skills to improve how your body uses real time information
  • Temporal processing or how to manage how fast you perceive time
  • Deliberate Practice techniques to build a practice program that will build on your progress after this one-day training.
  • Baseline check to measure shooting progress after one day’s training.
  • Techniques for retaining and integrating your new mental skills
o Sleep cycle
o Hydration
o Refresher/checks
o Deliberate Practice

 

Taught by Marcus Wynne:  Marcus is the CEO of Accentus Ludus LLC, a DOD research company focused on enhancing mental performance.  He has been a pioneer in the field of enhancing mental performance in combative applications for 30 years.  He’s taught at national law enforcement academies in over ten countries, including the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, and consults regularly with elite military counter-terror units in the US and abroad.  He served in the 82d Airborne and the United Nations Command Joint Security Force on active military duty during the 70s and 80s, and served again as a Federal Air Marshal, Air Marshal Team Leader, and Lead Firearms/Tactics Instructor during the First Gulf War in the early 90s.

 

 

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