| Here’s another small step in our set-up | | | | properly. Set the feet improperly, as in too far back |
| that’s often forgotten, then costs us a target. | | | | towards the trap, and the hips can lock up at that |
| Or more. | | | | critical moment when the final lead is being developed. |
| Before the target leaves the trap, hopefully your | | | | Said another way, when your hips lock up, and you |
| muzzle is very still, motionless before you call for the | | | | can’t rotate any further, your swing is |
| bird. When the trap fires, your muzzle begins to | | | | decelerating and precisely at the wrong time! |
| move. It slowly accelerates, building speed to match | | | | While your friends are correctly telling you that you |
| the target’s speed and possibly accelerating | | | | are missing behind, no one’s noticed that your |
| even further to create forward allowance. So it’s | | | | feet are set improperly causing your hips to lock up |
| fair to say as the muzzle picks up speed, the swing is | | | | as your swing nears the break point. Book I, Take |
| building momentum coming into the breakpoint and | | | | Your Best Shot, explains this nicely with a simple |
| the trigger pull. It is here where we really need that | | | | diagram. |
| momentum to either maintain a lead, or build it, pulling | | | | Setting your feet properly allows your swing to be |
| away. | | | | fluid, releasing your body (and muzzle) to move with |
| While we all know the arms and shoulders are | | | | the bird and past it. You will feel better when your |
| creating the swing, what other parts of your body | | | | legs and hips drive the swing, not just to the bird but |
| are contributing to that swing momentum? Your hips | | | | through it to the X! |
| and legs are. Provided, of course, your feet are set | | | | |