Brady Laramie on Collegiate Shooting, Helice & the Mental Game – Clay Mastermind with Dawn Grant: Mental Excellence and Industry Insight

Send us Fan MailBrady Laramie joins Dawn Grant on Clay Mastermind: Mental Excellence and Industry Insights for a conversation on collegiate shooting, Sporting Clays, Helice, mental focus, athletic discipline, and the importance of building a complete performance system. Brady is a competitive clay target and Helice shooter, a member of the Texas A&M Trap and Skeet Team, and a young coach helping middle school and high school shooters develop in the sport. In this episode, Brady shares how he first became involved in shooting after moving to the Prosper and Frisco area near Dallas and discovering that his private Christian high school had a clay target team. Although he grew up hunting, clay target competition opened a new level of opportunity, challenge, and excitement. He began shooting skeet, trap, and Sporting Clays, quickly developing his skills during the COVID years when he had more time to practice.Dawn and Brady discuss how his athletic background in baseball, track, running, and fitness helped shape his competitive mindset. Brady explains how running taught him to push past mental limits, quiet internal chatter, and stay focused through discomfort. He shares how those same skills transferred into clay shooting, where distractions, pressure, background noise, side-by-sides, and internal doubt can interfere with performance.A major focus of the episode is the mental game across different clay target disciplines. Brady explains how skeet and trap become highly mental once the mechanics are established because the targets are predictable and success depends on focus, consistency, and emotional control. Sporting Clays, by contrast, requires planning, preparation, target reading, and then the ability to let go and execute instinctively.Brady also shares his growing passion for Helice, explaining how the unpredictability of the target forces complete presence, reaction, and trust. He discusses why Helice appealed to him after reaching Master Class in Sporting Clays and how the discipline creates a different competitive opportunity where strong mental focus can narrow the gap between developing shooters and top-level competitors.Dawn and Brady also explore the broader elements of peak performance, including hydration, nutrition, fitness, sleep, travel preparation, and controlling the variables that can be controlled before competition. Brady shares how hydration became especially important after dealing with kidney stones and how he now treats preparation as part of his competitive routine.The episode also covers collegiate shooting at Texas A&M, including the team structure, tryout process, regional and national competitions, and the multiple disciplines athletes must compete in across the ACUI format. Brady explains how shooting for Texas A&M has helped him grow as both a competitor and a person.This episode offers valuable insight for Sporting Clays shooters, Helice competitors, collegiate athletes, young shooters, coaches, and anyone interested in mental discipline, preparation, athletic development, and long-term improvement in clay target sports. Brady Laramie LinksEmail: [email protected] A&M Trap and Skeet Team: https://www.instagram.com/tamutrapandskeet/ Dawn Grant Links  https://dawngrant.com/ https://mindmastered.com/  https://ameliashotgunsports.com/  Free webinar here: https://f.mtr.cool/wehmqlchqhSupport the show10% OFF ShotKam Coupon Code “TheClayLab”: https://bit.ly/TheClayLab-ShotKamVisit Us at www.claylabusa.com for videos, podcasts, and articles about Sporting Clays. Join as a Channel Member for early access to Videos & Podcasts and to support The Clay LabFind us on Social MediaYouTubeInstagramFacebook