Why You Lift Your Head
The short version: Lifting your head is the single most common fault in clay shooting — and it hides behind half your other misses. The fix is almost never “keep your head down.” It's finding why your head came up in the first place.
Telling yourself to “keep your head down” is willpower, not technique — and willpower fails under a moving bird. The head lifts for a reason: the gun doesn't fit, the mount is wrong, the body can't follow the bird, or you can't see it. Fix the reason and the head stays down on its own.
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The complete breakdown — every cause, why it happens, and the exact fix from Bill Erdőss's system — is part of ClaysBuddy Gold.
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About the method. These guides come from the coaching system of Bill Erdőss, an Olympic clay shooting coach, built around one idea: diagnose the cause of a miss, not the symptom. The same logic powers ClaysBuddy's shot heatmap, which finds that cause in your own rounds and tracks whether your fix is working.