Brown Jack professional coaching day with Louise Minett.

What a way to begin a Sunday……

This Sunday some of our Brown Jack team plus Steve G were lucky enough to receive professional coaching from Louise Minett, and what a few hours it was!

Louise’s international shooting career spanned 20 years and saw her competing in air rifle, 3P and prone. She has represented Great Britian at numerous World Championships, World Cup’s and European events, winning 1 World Cup Medal, 6 Commonwealth medals and she is 10 times British Women’s Air Rifle Champion. Safe to say we were in excellent hands.

If anyone would like to find out more about Louise’s career and how to book in for coaching, please have a look at her website – https://www.lcm400.co.uk/

So how did our morning go?

We arrived bright and early at 9am to get our range set up, check everything over and prepare ourselves mentally, there may have been a few lingering nerves for some!

Once we were all set up we had a group discussion around what we wanted to cover over the next 3 hours and how Louise would structure our time. Then it was on with the jackets and gloves and to the firing points.

This is where the hard work (probably harder for Louise!) began. At the firing point we were asked to take up position and shoot as we normally would, Louise then spent time with us individually to work out centre points and correct our alignment; despite thinking we had the basics down, this was not entirely the case.

Alignment was soon beginning to look better for everyone and so we started building our position, ensuing our feet, knees, hips and chest were square, allowing us to set our position correctly and find our natural point of aim. The impact this had on everyone there was amazing, if a little uncomfortable as we were changing from a position we had been used to shooting in to a position which felt quite different, but will allow our shooting to progress, which as air rifle shooters is something we all want.

We had time for a quick break before it was back to the firing point, this time Louise again spent time with us individually adjusting out rifles so they fitted us correctly, we had a vast selection of different rifles between us all so it was a bit of a job! We then had a chance to pull everything we had learnt together to see how our shooting was looking. The answer was much steadier, much less forced and much more consistent!

By the time it hit 1:30pm, our bodies were starting to protest at working so hard, but we were all very happy with everything we had learnt and been able to work on, it was then time for a debrief. We recapped everything we had worked through and had a chance to ask Louise any questions, she is incredibly knowledgeable, and it was fantastic to have her experience and expertise available to us, we are very grateful.