Match Mentality: Merging Skills and Mindset into Performance

by Ben Stoeger, Joel Park, Jarel Jensen (Editor)

This book isn’t about shooting as much as it is about the preparation, complicated feelings, emotions, and physiological changes that will occur when you are in a competition. Your technical training and talent can take you very far in the shooting sports, and it will allow you the opportunity to win matches that matter to you. Your mental fortitude, visualization, and competition mindset are factors that will enable you to carry through and actually win.The simple fact is that practical shooting matches test more than your technical shooting ability. They assess the professionalism of your preparation. At face value, matches test your ability to develop a stage plan, memorize it, and execute it. On a deeper level, matches test your ability to deal with pressure and control yourself. Honing these skills, these “mental game” sorts of things, are what this book is all about.

226 pages, Paperback

Published February 25, 2020

Reviews

[Walter Ullon · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book should have been called "Practical Shooting 101 - Everything you Need to know to get Started", or perhaps "Principles of Practical Shooting".

It's not what I was really looking for in term of mental preparation for competing in USPSA/IPSC matches. Although there is a little bit of advice in the way visualization and mental repetition, I don't think it's substantial enough to warrant a higher rating. Instead read The Confident Mind, by Nate Zinsser or With Winning in Mind, by Lanny Bassham.

If I were just starting out, I'd give this book 5 stars, and will gift it to a new shooter when the opportunity presents itself, since there is plenty in the way of things new shooters would want to know. Otherwise, it's a pass.

[Mike · Rating 5 out of 5]

Match Mentality is a indeph look into what it takes to be a capetitive shooter. The mental and physical environment can be very difficult and Ben Stoeger & company in this book help clear things up for you. From how to plan your workouts at the range, too, how to get ready for the big match.