I used to do competitive shooting back in the day. I got 4th in nationals in overall and first in JROTC overall for my last ever competition. I was only a few p

I used to do competitive shooting back in the day. I got 4th in nationals in overall and first in JROTC overall for my last ever competition. I was only a few points away from being olympic quality and actually turned down a full ride scholarship from a coach who sent students to the olympics. That said, I didn't do anything fancy to stay aware of my breathing minus a few things that you learn in your first couple days (breathe in, breathe out, breath in, breath out 20%). Overtime, you just get a sense of where the rifle tends to point and you learn to control it. Nothing fancy :). It wasn't really a conscious thought process by any means and my coach didn't really push conscious breathing. The biggest thing he would push was mindfulness of where your shot ended up. He would take away my damn sighting scope and get me to predict where each shot landed.. which was actually incredibly helpful as much as I hated to admit. The things that were much more important than breathing control were keeping calm (mental state, not necessarily breathing), adjusting your "natural point of aim" after each shot, and having a constant awareness of stance and how small changes affected your aim. Then again, my shooting style had a complete lack of the usual advised technique. My trigger control was garbage, for example. I met up with him after high school and shot for a bit. When he saw my shooting stance, he asked, rudely, "Where'd you learn that faggoty-ass stance from?". "You", was accurate. :) Funny thing. Apparently shooters and swimmers in their teens suffer from the problem of high pitched noise while sleeping. It's really stupidly embarrassing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catathrenia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catathrenia