David has been successfully assisting individuals in the areas of rifle, pistol, and shotgun shooting since 1990. He is a NSCA Certified Instructor, Level III, the highest level of certification granted by the NSCA in the United States, as well as a NSSA Certified Instructor, Level III, thus making him one of only two people to hold both levels of certification. He also holds a Masters Degree in Business and has built a successful career as an IT recruiter, motivational speaker, and management trainer. David has a passion for teaching and shooting and is not only an accomplished coach in the clay sports, but an educator in his private business practice, frequently designing and providing business training for his client companies. Addie is also a NSCA Certified Instructor, holds a Masters Degree in Public Health Sciences, and works as a Senior Manager in the Public Sector. Please visit the Contact Us page for a list of locations in the Jacksonville, FL area where David and Adeline teach.
1999 Sporting Clays Classic RU
Educated in the USA and Europe and speaking several languages including French and German, David and his family returned to Minneapolis where he attended the University of Minnesota for a year before moving to Jacksonville, Florida, his current home. He attended the University of North Florida earning a Bachelor’s Degree in business, and then went on to earn a Masters Degree in Business in 1984 while working on his career in Information Systems Technology. He started his own consulting firm, Dobson & Associates, Inc., in 1990 when he also began teaching shooting to select friends and business clients. In 1997, he got introduced to English Sporting Clays, F.I.T.A.S.C. and competing, and he knew he had found his calling. A firm believer in cross-training, David has found that shooting all three major clay sports (sporting, skeet, and trap) competitively aids in the reinforcement of both the basic fundamentals and the mental game. Contrary to the popular myth that this hurts one game or the other, David has found it is immensely beneficial not only for himself professionally as a competitive shooter, but for all of his shooting clients and students who want to get to the next level as competitors. He teaches all shooting methods and believes that it is vital that his students have a firm understanding of the basic fundamentals and an inventory of methodologies from which to choose when shooting complex target presentations. Among his biggest influences as a professional coach and shooter himself, David credits most of all, his dear friends, Dale Bloom and Ken Branham, as well as a host of others such as Jim Arnold, Dan Schindler, Dan Carlisle, Ed Welch, Jose Castillo (World Champion, US Navy Skeet Team Captain), and Skipper Wright (ATA Trap Hall of Fame). However, his greatest teachers have been, and continue to be, his Students and Clients. Without them, none of this dream of teaching would be possible. Many thanks for your support, and there are just too many to list individually, but you all know who you are! You are the best! David & Adeline (Addie) live in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, outside Jacksonville, and have been married for 27 years. They also believe in supporting their Jacksonville, FL community and have served on the Board of Directors since 2002 for Family Foundations (formerly Family Counseling Services), a non-profit, United Way Agency. One of their significant contributions to annual fund raising has been the development and chairing of the annual Family Foundations Sporting Clays Classic Event held every year at WW Sporting Clays in Jacksonville, FL. This event, which began in 2004, is held annually on or about May 19 in honor of David's Father, who passed away from Cancer in 2000. The Family Foundations Sporting Clays Classic has become a major Sporting Clays Charity event in the North Florida area, and the revenue derived from this tournament aids in helping North Florida families in distress. For further information on this wonderful agency and how it helps families in crisis, go to www.familyfoundations.org. Thank you, Addie, for loving me so and believing in me all of these years. You are the love of my life. How lucky I am... |
  830-13 A1A North, #413 Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082 (904) 285-9500 Fax: (904) 285-3869 ddobsonpvb@aol.com
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