01
See
Visual discipline comes before mechanical correction. The first job is to build a picture clear enough that the body can move honestly.
Coaching
Instruction built around movement quality, visual clarity, and pressure.
Coaching starts with the shot in front of you: what the target asks, what your eyes report, how your setup holds, and what your movement does when pressure enters the field.
Coaching System
The target is the test. The movement is the curriculum.
Coaching starts by reading the shot in front of you: the target, the body, the setup, the eyes, and the pressure around the moment. The break or miss is feedback, but it is not the whole lesson.
David's work is to make those pieces visible enough that a shooter can change them. See the presentation, set the conditions, move with intent, evaluate what happened, then translate it into the next useful piece of work.
02
Set
Hold point, foot pressure, posture, and gun position are treated as a system. The setup should remove panic instead of creating more decisions.
03
Move
The goal is a controlled open-loop movement that can survive pressure. Clean movement is valued even when a short-term result is tempting.
04
Evaluate
Practice improves when the score stops being the only feedback. The work is to separate good movement from lucky breaks and bad movement from useful misses.
05
Translate
The last step is turning what was seen into usable language, images, systems, or next actions so the lesson can carry into the next field.
Who This Is For
For shooters who need a clearer read, not another slogan.
Coaching is not only for elite competitors. It is for anyone serious enough to ask what the target keeps revealing about vision, setup, movement, and pressure.
Start where the pressure isSerious shooters in a plateau
You are practicing, but the same problems keep surviving the work.
Developing shooters building fundamentals
You need cleaner visual habits, setup discipline, and movement that can be repeated.
Competitive shooters preparing for events
You want the lesson tied to pressure, target reading, and decisions that hold up in a round.
Students missing the same target type
You can describe the target, but you cannot yet see which part of the shot is failing.
Shooters connecting vision, setup, and movement
You need the eyes, hold point, body pressure, and gun path to stop arguing with each other.
Diagnostic Read
What David watches.
The diagnosis is not one magic correction. It is a disciplined read of the pieces that decide whether a shooter can see clearly, set up cleanly, and move without panic.
Visual clarity
What the shooter actually sees before the gun starts moving.
Hold point and setup
Whether the feet, posture, gun position, and hold point make the shot easier or harder.
Movement quality
How the gun leaves the setup, matches the target, and stays honest through the break.
Pressure behavior
What changes when the target matters, the score matters, or the shooter wants the result too badly.
Gun fit and feel
How the gun sits in the hands and whether the build supports the move the shooter is trying to make.
Practice feedback
Whether practice is producing useful information or just another score to react to.
Post-shot evaluation
How well the shooter can separate a useful miss, a lucky break, and a real correction.
Lesson Flow
Before, during, and after the lesson.
A lesson should have a beginning, a field test, and a next assignment. That structure keeps the work practical for a first-time visitor and useful for a serious competitor.
Before
Bring the pattern into the lesson.
Bring context: recent rounds, recurring target problems, event goals, practice notes, or a Shot Lab submission. The goal is to arrive with evidence, not a vague feeling that something is wrong.
During
Observe, set, move, evaluate, adjust.
David watches the target, the body, the hold point, the eyes, and the move together. The work stays close to what the shot is proving in real time.
After
Leave knowing what to work on next.
A good lesson should not end as a pile of tips. You should leave knowing what to watch, what to practice, and how to recognize the pattern when it shows up again.
Lesson Formats
Practical ways to do the work.
The format depends on the shooter, the location, and the calendar. The goal stays the same: make the pattern readable and turn the lesson into work you can continue.
Schedule the workPrivate lessons
Focused one-on-one work for shooters who need direct diagnosis, repetition, and a clear next practice plan.
Small-group work
Useful when shooters share context, travel together, or want individual feedback inside a tighter group setting.
Clinics and travel dates
Available where the calendar and club schedule support a concentrated teaching stop.
Remote preparation through Shot Lab
Use Shot Lab before a lesson or between sessions when a target pattern needs to be made readable first.
Lesson Locations
Where the work happens.
Current and seasonal teaching stops are preserved here so shooters can see the practical path into a private lesson, small-group session, clinic, or travel date when appropriate.
Southeast
active
Blackjack Sporting Clays
A current teaching stop for private and small-group sporting clays lessons.
Southeast
active
Back Woods Quail Club
A current teaching stop where course movement and target presentation can be studied in detail.
Midwest
active
Hill'n Dale Club
A Midwest teaching stop with recurring lesson availability.
Upper Midwest
seasonal
Granite Falls Sportsman's Club
A seasonal teaching location for shooters in the upper Midwest.
Oklahoma
seasonal
Silverleaf Shotgun Sports
A seasonal Oklahoma stop with strong club and event context.
Texas
seasonal
Westside Sporting Grounds
A long-running club relationship and a useful reference point for targets, atmosphere, and instruction.
New York
seasonal
Rochester Brooks Gun Club
A New York teaching stop connected to recurring instruction and course design work.
Next Step
Choose the clearest pressure point.
Start with the next step that matches the evidence you already have. A lesson, a Shot Lab submission, and a coaching inquiry are different doors into the same work.
Submit the pattern
Use this when a round, target type, or recurring miss has enough evidence to review.
Submit the patternStart where the pressure is
Use this when you are not sure whether the right next step is a lesson, analysis, or a broader coaching question.
Start where the pressure isStudent Outcomes
Detail deep enough to change what the shooter can feel.
“The lesson was probably the most helpful time I have ever spent trying to improve my shooting. Your attention to detail was exactly what I was hoping for.”
Michael, Illinois
Private lesson
“I greatly appreciated your didactics, the honest and constructive feedback, and how you structured the first lesson with me.”
Erich, Illinois
Coaching program
“First time I have had instruction from a top-level shooter that went into detail as deep as you did. The physical aspect was very beneficial.”
Marty, Texas
Private lesson