In a training session at his club range located 15 minutes away, he sets up three to four targets and has steel and activating targets on pallet carriers that are driven out onto the bay.
One of the pallets carries a swinger built with a steel popper target connected to it. During the months of May, June, and July, he is shooting major matches every single weekend. When he was a young boy, eight years of age, he accompanied his dad, former military, to the gun range.
His dad became club president over time and Eric began competing at the age of Eric starting training more seriously at the age of Training involved dry firing 15 minutes a day and performing live fire twice a week.
His dad helped him get his first sponsorship from an ammunition company. That milestone changed the trajectory of his life and became the start of his professional shooting career. The following two years, he spent some time training in the US learning from American competition shooters. Later in the shooting season, he was training for his first World Shoot in Cebu, Philippines.
Armscor took a chance on this talented prodigy shooter and sponsored him. Eric trained at the Armscor factory in Manila, Philippines, shooting rounds a day, nonstop for five weeks prior to the match. After that win, new sponsors came rushing his way. The other most memorable career win was capturing his first US Nationals Championship title.
It has C-More sights and a short frame light slide with different systems of hybrid. The look is a little different. The Stock III looks more tactical than the other. Mike: What routine do you use, and why if you use a specific one dry fire have you selected it? Eric: No real routine. Within my 15 min dry fire I do almost everything. Moving, reloads, hand change, etc…. Eric: No never! I use a PAR timer in dry fire to keep myself from getting board, and to keep track of my skill speed.
That said, I believe strongly that the use of PAR time might be more valuable in the beginning of your development than at the end. Pay particular attention to what Eric says about comparing himself to people on the Internet, I think that is KEY information!! I will let Eric tell you his total ammunition usage per year, but can say he shoots way more than the rest of the team by a huge percentage!
Work harder and more…. Mike: Does the current amount of live fire differ from the amount when you started? Mike: Please describe an average practice session, including your goals. What do you practice? Like this it opens up a lot of situations. Mike: Do you rotate through different practice focuses such as movement in one session, weak hand in another? Eric: Usually I have almost all per practice sessions. Just for swingers and shooting on the move, I usually set a day just based on that.
Mike: What is the single most important thing you wish to accomplish in live fire practice? This is critically important! Eric: I am not sure. So a good selection of competitions are to me better than shooting a match every single weekend.
Eric: NO! Not at all! I give the same importance to a small club match of 6 stages than a world shoot. Mike: You are multiple-time world champion. You know you are nearly unbeatable. That must mean you have huge amounts of confidence.
BUT, you were not always at your level. How did you develop that level of mental confidence? Eric: I am beatable , and I am not confident like a lot of people think. From the very beginning, I have been prepared to come second. I always start the match remembering me that it can be the last one.
Then I try to do the best for me and the people who support me for years. Learn from it. Eric: Training with my dad. Then I developed a strategy work really early between till when I came in the US to learn with the big guys. It is based on a work I did with my Judo teacher.
I guess the plan still works for now. But for how long?? Mike: How do you decided to shoot a particular stage? For example, do you deeply analyze and base off the numbers hit factor? This skill is something that can be learned and used at the higher levels of the sport. Mike: Do you follow the plan you see other shooters take, or do you mostly focus on your own skills? Eric: Both, cause I am following my plan, based on that I make the choice of what needs to be done. Would you say this is true?
Eric: Aha, yes and no. But I know what kind of stages fits my skills. If this is kind of a plan, then I know other people who were and still are doing this plan, and thanks to them because I learned from them in my early learning years. At the top of the game, less mistakes means the win. Eric: A main factor is that I can handle the pressure. You know that every top guy has sponsors. By the logic, every one want to do well, for themselves, but also for the companies supporting them. There is already pressure here.
Then you have family pressure. Then the outsider has the pressure that he wants to perform. So every one has different types of pressure, and then you have to manage it. Mike: You have worked for years with a coach your father. How has this contributed to your mastery of the game? Eric: A lot, cause he always had great training ideas. Sometimes funny, sometimes undoable, but I had to do it. So it helps you getting prepared to any unexpected situations.
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