All the pistol coaches I鈥檝e worked with use challenges and contracts in their training plans, usually adding more demand as competitions approach. After my first training session with Philippe Stiel he sent me a great email explaining contracts, so as to change my training plan and to improve coordination in training and competition. So far I鈥檝e also worked with challenges and contracts with coaches Daniel Goberville, Santiago G贸mez Salgado and Dina Aspandiyarova. This is my interpretation of their take on the use of challenges and contracts, with examples.
Tag Archives: Santiago G贸mez Salgado
Precision & Standard Air Pistol Training Plan
This is the last of my training plans with Santiago G贸mez Salgado so far. He sent it after my qualification for the regional championships and keeps in mind that my focus is in precision 10m air pistol but that I was also participating in rapid fire events. It is a two week work plan for home and the range.
Competition Training Plan + Tendencies Test
tendencies test and sent this training plan to work on sight focus taking them into account.
Standard 10m Air Pistol Instructions
After sharing his rapid fire pistol instructions, coach Santiago G贸mez Salgado dives sent me these training notes to help me in my progress to the standard 10m air pistol Belgian national finals, as I was facing the regional classification match (spoiler: I got into the nationals).
Balance, Stop and Endurance Training Plan (With Left Shots Correction)
After last week’s notes on how to fix a slump and shots going to the right (contrary to my usual left shots at the time), this time Santiago sent a training plan and some notes to work on body balance, arm stop in the aiming zone, and endurance, plus how to fix some mistakes that could have caused the left shots. First we dive into his wisdom and notes:
Fixing a Slump and Pistol Shots Going Right
Santiago got back to me with this training plan after seeing my desperation for my degrading performance. His solution in these cases is to …
Initiation to Rapid Fire Pistol by Coach Santiago G贸mez Salgado
ts different events for 25 and 10m (if you are curious about the air pistol events, check out the rules). I got to the Belgian national finals with his advice and a little bit of practice 馃檪
Recommendations for New Air Pistol Shooters by Coach Santiago G贸mez Salgado
After getting Santiago’s last training plan and working on it for a couple weeks we had a call to discuss some basic recommendations to improve my technique as a new shooter (this was back in 2017). This is what he proposed:
2nd Two Week Pistol Training Plan To Improve Shoulder, Balance, Hold, and Trigger Execution
After sending the targets of my training days to Santiago, he delivered this two week training plan to : strengthen deltoid muscles to improve holding, improve balance, improve hold, and improve shot execution.