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It's Not Always About Winning

5/16/2016

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This past weekend was the Washington State Mounted Shooting Championships.  My normal goal is to shoot clean.  Clean is fast and fast is what wins.  However, this weekend my goal was something different.  I wanted to go faster and trust my horse.  Copper and I have been practicing really hard and I knew I could do those things at home but in a competition setting everything is different.
You see, I have always been concerned with shooting clean.  A miss to me is not acceptable and to be honest a little embarrassing. I have a reputation for not missing very much and I wanted to keep it.  However, I'm never going to move up the ranks and win if I don't take some risks.  So that's what I did this weekend.  I decided to not care if I missed.  I decided that going faster was more important.  This change in mindset was difficult for me, but guess what?  It worked!   I had 4 misses the first day with no chance of winning.  However, my raw times were A LOT faster then I normally run, and that is saying something!  Having this weekend to push myself and my horse had made a huge difference in my confidence.  Everything came together on day two of competition and I didn't miss a single balloon.  It felt great and I'm still a little high off the adrenaline rush!


I also got to carry a flag in the grand entry and that always puts a big smile on my face!  

Do you have a goal for this season?  What is it?  How are you going to achieve it?  Feel free to share below.  I love hearing from you!
 
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4 Comments
Correen Drake
5/23/2016 06:27:44 pm

Courtney it was so good to meet you :)

Such an inspiration...you 'go girl!'

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Don
8/17/2016 04:10:44 pm

Just found your blog, very informative. I wanted to comment that I have done something very similar the last shoot or two. I was also being clean more often than not but not quite fast enough after having moved up. Tried for more speed and accepted missing some balloons and impressed myself that I could actually run some decent times. Have dedicated more time to practice and drills and hoping it pays off with speed AND accuracy. Good luck!

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Courtney
8/17/2016 04:12:28 pm

Thanks for checking this little blog out. And I hear ya on adding speed. Good luck to you as well!

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Alexis Olsen link
1/15/2021 09:22:07 am

Great blog youu have

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