We Helped a Level 10 TRIGGER PUNCHER

Hey guys my name is Sam. I am a level 10 trigger puncher. I'm here for Joel. Joel needs to help me. I've had some success but it's blind luck apparently at this point. Over the past 10 years I've shot tens of thousands of shots. Most likely none of them were controlled. I think it just came from no instruction up front as an early early on my bow hunting and not truly understanding what a clean break is. From full draw. Come on. Talk to me. Oh you got all kinds of level the bubble. Fancy stuff. Wow. This is where we were. Let's go buddy. Okay. Are you a doctor Sam? I'm a nurse anesthetist. Okay. You're a doctor. I do have my doctorate. Okay doc. I know you can talk out loud. Let's go. Okay. Full draw. Anchor. Got it. Bubble set. Yep. Pin down range. Yep. Address the trigger. Yep. Here I go. Ah. So you shot that at the end of here I go. I did. You got more jobs to do brother. Okay. Right. Yep. You're not loud enough. Okay. Specific point. That's when you got to get loud sir. Okay. Right. Yep. Because what words are you going to use to work through this this specific pressure increase on the trigger? What are you gonna use? I need to say here I go and then stop. Okay. And then pull. Do you need to say the word stop? I think I do. Let's do it. Because if I don't I think it's gonna be a big pull. Yep. So you're gonna hook in and actually pull your hand through the strap. Okay. That's what I need. Okay. Right. No finger movement whatsoever. Let's go Sam. Dr. Sam. Okay. Anchor. Yep. Bubble. That's all getting easy. Talk to me. Pin down range. Okay. Address the trigger. Here I go. All right. You didn't say stop after here I go. Yeah. And you never even got to squeeze. Okay. Let's go man. Okay. Come on. Okay. You talk to you. You got to get loud sir. Anchor. Bubble. Yep. Talk to me. Aim down range. I don't want any blank spots in it. Let's go. What's happening? Address the trigger. Okay. Here I go. Stop. Yeah. Pull. I'm still moving that finger of yours. Okay. Do you need me to smash it or? Maybe. You're good? Maybe. I'll take a hammer over to that table right there. So we're working farther now, right? We got to stop, right? Yeah. Like I've had to do that in the middle of my shot on a bull elk. It's standing at 10 yards, losing its mind, raking the ground in front of me. Bull of a lifetime. I'm at full draw with my recurve and my mind is going, just shoot it. Just shoot it. Bull of a lifetime, right? Those are thoughts. I remember specifically saying, stop. I am not doing that, right? In the middle of that. And then once I regained my consciousness, right? Then I was able to talk myself through the pressure increase on the trigger. How many of you have heard of visualization in archery? What do people visualize in archery? That beautiful mystical flight of the arrow, right? You watch it just going right in. That's none of your damn business, right? What you need to visualize is whatever the problem is, which is usually the trigger work. Okay. So what we do to visualize that, so what we're going to do is not blind bale shooting. You are going to draw back your bow and you're going to make sure that you hit the bale somewhere, right? Then you're going to take your hand away from your face and you're going to look at it and then you're going to address the trigger. Then you're going to say, here I go. Then you're going to go until it goes off or it doesn't. It's none of your business. Okay. Okay. So draw back, make sure you're going to hit the bale. Okay. Okay. Now pull away from your face. You're going to have to come down a little bit. There you go. Okay. So see how aggressive you were that? Yep. That's what you keep doing. Do it again. Show me how slow you can go. You started into it, but it didn't go off on his first pull, did it? Right? On his first word. Press the trigger. Yeah. Move it to the right a little bit. You're good. Here I go. Watch it. All right. Still too much. Too fast. You've got it now, but I want 10 times slower. Here I go. Wait, wait. Slower than that. Slower than that. Slower. Yeah. It's slower, but I want it 10 times slower. Okay. I don't want to see your finger moving at all. Okay. I want to see blood leaving capillary bed. Okay. That's all I want to see. Got it? Yep. Dock. Here I go. Show me how slow you can go. There you go. Feel the difference? Yep. You can feel it going off. That's why that release is maybe not so good, right? But it's great for concentration practice because you can feel traveling. I know. I've never felt traveling. That's a thought, right? Yeah. Here I go. Now we're doing it. Hello, surprise break. Right? Yeah. Feel the difference? I can feel every- Every nook and cranny. 64th of a- Let's go. Yeah. Do it again, and we're not going to- Now we're going to actually aim a shot. Okay? So I want you to put your 20-yard pin on that top dot. Okay. Let's do the exact same thing because now it's like you can have an out-of-body experience. Now it's like me watching him because he's seen his release go off. Here I go. Stay in that. See how he can do that now? Because he can actually see what it feels like. Okay. So we just had lunch, and then they had to shoot a controlled shot with me to prove that they are worthy of going on the 3D course. They're going to go up on the 3D course in groups. While they're up there, they've got to do at least three commentary shots. Bodhi and I will be roving amongst them, and it's nothing but controlled shots on that hill. If they punch a trigger, they have to self-report to me or Bodhi, and there will be push-ups involved. I'm rushing through the end of that squeeze. Why? I need to be louder in my head. So you were doing it down there. Yep. But not here. I'm having some good ones, but I'm definitely having some jumps. So when you have a good one, do you blueprint it? I'm trying. Trying is not strong enough, bro. I do know what it feels like, and I do know what it sounds like in my head. But how are you doing it? Full draw in my mind. Here I go. Start to squeeze the blood out of the capillaries. Okay. Squeeze. Okay. So maybe instead of just one word, you need to have a conversation. Yeah. Like, okay, I'm going to start squeezing super slow. Okay. Yeah, that feels good. All right. Now just squeeze. You got to get it started. Yeah. Yeah. You got to get it to the right speed limit. Yeah. And then you just stay in that. Okay. Stay in it. And if those are the words, then those are the words. Stay in it. The conversation has got to be stronger than the thoughts. Okay. Let's go. I'm going to watch you shoot. I want you to watch me shoot. Okay. Your only job is to move the trigger slow enough you can stop it anywhere within it. You got to know how it's going to go right now. I'm going to get on here with you. All right. Give up on it. Get on. But now you're watching through my eyes. Stay in that speed. There you go. Better. You just got to stay in that speed. I gave up on it at the end, but yep. It was definitely a better first half. You got the perfect speed going, bro. You just got to stay in it until it breaks. Otherwise, you're getting right to that spot and ha. Yep. Joe, don't walk backwards. Okay. Get loud. That's perfect. Stay in it. Give up on it. I want to see an abnormally long trigger work. Okay. Like I can go, oh, okay. He's finally got it. Right. So good. That was also your best shot. So good. Right. Yep. That's it. So I had. I want to feel myself start to almost shake before that. You started to go too fast. I'm like, slower than that. And you instantly slowed it down because you started talking. Yep. Right. The deer is 39, right? 39, 38, 39 with the, with the antlers. An epiphany. Yeah. Yeah. Changed my life. I've never felt an index trigger finger trigger move until now. So that was probably the first surprise break in my life. Now I know that I punched the trigger regardless. And that's why I'm here.