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Author Topic: Too much practice?  (Read 3888 times)

Offline soky

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Too much practice?
« on: February 18, 2019, 09:07:43 PM »
I have no intentions of getting in any contest as of now but for the first time in my life I’ve been practicing everyday since October. When I say everyday I mean every. Single. Day...  A week or so ago I felt like I was calling better than I ever had in my life. For the past few days I feel like I’m getting worse. Have any of you contest callers ever experienced something like this? If so, how did you fix it? It’s driving me crazy.

Offline gergg

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Re: Too much practice?
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2019, 07:11:01 PM »
Worn out call?
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Offline soky

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Re: Too much practice?
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2019, 10:49:37 PM »
I’ve went through a few since I’ve started practicing more. By any chance do you know how long a call is good for if you’re calling a lot?

Offline gergg

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Re: Too much practice?
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2019, 08:30:11 PM »
I’ve went through a few since I’ve started practicing more. By any chance do you know how long a call is good for if you’re calling a lot?

Depends, you can usually tell by how the call responds, most likely loses its pop/snap due to reeds loosening up from various factors.
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Offline Brizendine1234

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Re: Too much practice?
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2019, 03:03:22 PM »
There’s a lot to it could be the call could be the room I know on pot calls a change in air temp will change things for me if I do it to much I get in to a bad habit