A friend of mine once said that if you go to a shoot expecting to win you will come back disappointed 99% of the time. If you can go with the idea of having fun and making new friends and keep the nerves at bay you will shoot better! This person has won acouple world championships and doesn't shoot as good as he used to but he still goes and has just as much fun as he ever did. If it wasn't fun I doubt I would do it !! We are not all as good as Hopkins and 99.9% of us never will be even if we had the time and resources to shoot all the time. Pressure can do funny things to a person. When I get back from a national shoot and tell my scores to my friends they all want to know what happened? They don't understand the difference between the local every Sunday shoot and a pro-am or triple crown shoot. The key I suppose is to be able to keep the butterflies to a minimum. It is amazing how much better I shoot after the 1st 5 and I know that the chances of winning are pretty much gone. THINK FUN!!!