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Hi Julien A nice loking pair of guns, did you get a new grip safety as well? I see you kept the old mag release button, don't you like the new one? really like the moebius cut in the grip, mine is almost finish, will get one on the next SVI. regards,

Hi your answer does make sense why I can't get it to work. Reading the documentation however, it seems a smart person could add the required files in the prefixes to make it work. I'll post this question on global village and see what happens. If I get a helpful answer I'll post it here.

Hi I would like to Run WinMMS on my Mac without having to virtualize windows witk vmware. I downloaded winebottler. http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/ I just can't get it to work. Any forum member who got it running? I also has on option to include WinMMS in winebottler code so it can be distibuted as an mac application. i appreciate any help.

Last sunday I shot a level 2 ipsc match. After my breakthrough I felt confident in my abilities and was ready to move fast and shoot in control. First stage they made us start with both hands in a bucket of water holding a innertube of a bicycle. Gun unloaded (great stage) , firs position a window with one target all A, while shooting on the move I could see I was not very stable and shot 5c and one A on three targets on the next position I shot only A with holes no more then 3 inch apart. reflecting on the first stage I aimed for the target while shooting on the move and not the A zone, I could see my front sight well and follow it during recoil. This was in my opinion something that could have been prevented. But then again I don't believe we rise to the ocasion when it matters. I believe we fall back on our level of training and confidence. Second stage a 9 shot course shooting thru a small window while keeping it open. I had a feeding issue and had to push the slide forward, this cost me a lot of time. While looking at the target I could not confirm 2 a hits on one target due to the lightning and fired two more shots ending with 4 A's on one target. Not beneficial to my hitfactor. Holding open door the window and shooting strong hand kept me form seeing my front sight properly, definetly a skill I haven't mastered yet. I had 4 stages to go but I got DQ'ed on the next one. Something horible happened. While standing bend over in an strange position at 85 degrees from the back stop I made the choice of first getting to move and then grabbing my gun while moving to the first position. WRONG!!!!!!! while getting upright and turning into the direction of the first position I must have rubbed the gun or hooked a prop (a bike) and my gun dropped on the floor. It was lying their with the safety on no ad just some minor scrathes. I hadn't seen the danger of the position and didn't use the lock on the holster or grabbed the gun before moving. In the future I'll first grab the gun before moving and when in an awkward position I'll use the lock. Well another valuable hard lesson.

Hi Last tuesday I had a breakthrough training, I discovered benefits by being able to call your shots I was previously unaware of. During my training I was ready to start "investing in losing" by just applying the fundamentals and forgetting about speed. I did not use a time for the first time. My breakthrough was that I reached a new level of calling my shots. Reading the posts about calling your shots make me believe there are different levels within this skill and I got to experience a whole new level for me. I could see my sights during the full recoil/shooting cycle on multiple shots and target transitions. It slowly developed during the training session, In the past I could only call my shots consistent during precision shooting at 25 meters with .22. But there's something else next to the ability to know if you hit the A-zone that comes with being able to track the front sight. This is the subject of this topic and I would like to share my experience and like to learn from more experienced shooters how I be open to more side effects and how to understand them and put them to use. Two things I noticed are, I can see the effectiveness of my recoil control. I can now see the effect of my grip and stance by observing the way the gun moves during recoil !!!!!! I was amazed about the difference subtle changes in my stance make. I even think I saw myself diping, fighting the gun during recoil causing it to drop below my point of aim of my first shot. I can see if I loose my line-up while transistioning from target to target. Well maybe this is bad technique look at the target and the gun will follow. I saw this at targets that were about 120cm apart. I noticed that i turned my shoulders instead of my hips. I got instant feedback and could adjust for it. Now I'm trying to stay humble and open for this experience and I'm going to work on being able to do this all the time. I feel like a shooter for the first time and things were natural. regards

Breakthrough training In my post about the art of learning I wrote about changing my training approach. I was ready to start investing in losing by just applying the fundamentals and forgetting about speed. Last Tuesday it applied it. I had received a new correction for my dominant eye last week and could see my front sight more easily because now my resting focus is on the front sight. Without the use of a timer I started my training, this was the first time without. My breakthrough is that I was able for the first time to see the sight lift and return, before I could only see it lift. I can do it easily with a .22 shooting precision at 25 meters but not with my standard gun. This was great but it gets better. Not only could I follow them during recoil I could see/follow them on consecutive shots on the same target. And yes it gets even better I could do this on multiple targets. This is new experience to me, and a great confidence booster. I could transition to the next target during the recoil, yes finally!!!! There's something else next to the ability to know if you hit the A-zone that comes with being able to track the front sight. I get feedback on a lot of other things as a bonus. Things I noticed are, I can get a better feel for the effectiveness of my recoil control. I can now see the effect of my grip and stance!!!!!! I can see when I turn with my shoulders instead of my hips. I can see that I loose my line-up with the sights!!!!! Now I'm trying to stay humble and open for this experience and I'm going to work on being able to do this all the time.

This is my post about the Art of Learning I've posted it in Books and films, feel free to comment. topic http://www.brianenos...howtopic=131479 Hi Brian I didn't know a good place to post/start a discussion on The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin but a PM to Brian pointed me to this thread. For me it's one of these books I'll keep reading and find new and deeper levels of understanding regarding the subject and myself, just like Brians book. The more I study/read about shooting and sprot performance some subjects become more complex while some are getting "easier" or less complex. This is offcourse a natural progression while your growing or developing insight and understanding. Without going in to much detail in this post about the book, It has helped me connecting previous insights into learning and performing. I wanted to share some of these insights with Brian and other members on this forum. Some of the lessons and insights I got out of it are, To grow as a shooter I 'first' have to grow as a person. Before I can perform in the present I'll have to learn to live in the present, performing in the present will be more attainable when I'm able to enjoy live as it presents itslef to me. Zen principles are in place here. I knew the mental game was important but not to the full extend it influences learning and performing. My first thought was I can do this (the route to better performance described in the book) and the more I got to the end the more it dawned on me that it will be a long but interesting journey and that this is ok. In the third part in the book it becomes very clear that top performance is very close related to performing/feeling wel in your private and worklife as well (both constant strugles). As a developing shooter I like the concept of "investing in losing", and "smaller circles". For me they have directed a change to my training approach: My new rule is: If it's not about calling my shots it's not about shooting. I've fallen for the speed trap, I thought I didn't but I did. Shooting good points 95% or better and showing fast improvement made me think I was doing the right thing. But in reality I'm not doing the right thing(s). As soon as I try to be fast I can't call all my shots and start being sloppy. I cut corners on correct execution… wrong. All my C's, D's and misses are a result of aiming at the target and not on a specific point within the A zone. I will have to build the discipline to take the time I need to hit the a zone and know it. (I've started imprinting my selfimage as: I know I shoot alphas). Invest in correct execution and speed will come by itself as a by product. The goal is proper execution and not being fast. The smaller circles principle can be applied on execution of e.g. the draw and to the aiming/shooting process. Without trying to give a full description of the principle it is about perfecting execution of for instance movement that you can do it faster or you need less movement to strike with the same force. A good example is the 2 inch punch of Bruce Lee. This principle made the importance clear of my changed approach I wrote above. It's not about cutting corners to see with how much I can get away with. This will create a performance plateau later on and it will be a lot harder to repair then. I thought I was smarter and I understood things by trying to do things sooner instead of faster. In reality I was trying to run before I could walk. Trying to apply advanced techniques is very tempting to me, partly because I can learn new things quit fast. Problem is in adding the next thing before having internalized the one before. Very useful I found the analogy with learning tai chi, I studied Tai Chi for a few years from a Martial Arts perspective and learning new movements in slow motion and focusing/sensing the body during execution by learning to feel how much muscle tension is needed during execution. This has helped me understand the draw and reload better and I'm becoming smoother and faster in the reload/draw. I'm improving faster and more consistent, at least that's what the numbers are telling me, will need some more months to be sure though. Brian thank you for charing this book tip with us. this was a good example of maku mozo regards,

During my vacation I did some more reflection/evaluation on my performance as a shooter and my results. Although my points are good and well above the rule of thumb of 90% (95%) I have come to realize that the points I loose are caused by aiming at the target instead of a point within the A-zone. By trying to be fast I get sloppy, first did not realize this because my score seemed to be good and well above par. The reality is that I overlooked an important feedback tool to my performance. To get a better understanding of performance and results I'm going to note for every stage if I called the shots and my general thoughts about seeing my sights. I discovered this because of a friend who commented on my results that I had to loose the c and d hits in the future. My first response was but blablabla…. He again explained me why it was important to me, he's a strong supporter of the training/shooting philosophy of Eric Grauffel. Later during my vacation and reading The art of learning it started to make sense to me, I'll post more on this in the next posts. Reviewing my video I could see I don't keep my gun high enough during movement or in other words I loose time because I have to wait before I can aim because I have to bring the gun up.

Hi Brian I didn't know a good place to post/start a discussion on The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin but a PM to Brian pointed me to this thread. For me it's one of these books I'll keep reading and find new and deeper levels of understanding regarding the subject and myself, just like Brians book. The more I study/read about shooting and sprot performance some subjects become more complex while some are getting "easier" or less complex. This is offcourse a natural progression while your growing or developing insight and understanding. Without going in to much detail in this post about the book, It has helped me connecting previous insights into learning and performing. I wanted to share some of these insights with Brian and other members on this forum. Some of the lessons and insights I got out of it are, To grow as a shooter I 'first' have to grow as a person. Before I can perform in the present I'll have to learn to live in the present, performing in the present will be more attainable when I'm able to enjoy live as it presents itslef to me. Zen principles are in place here. I knew the mental game was important but not to the full extend it influences learning and performing. My first thought was I can do this (the route to better performance described in the book) and the more I got to the end the more it dawned on me that it will be a long but interesting journey and that this is ok. In the third part in the book it becomes very clear that top performance is very close related to performing/feeling wel in your private and worklife as well (both constant strugles). As a developing shooter I like the concept of "investing in losing", and "smaller circles". For me they have directed a change to my training approach: My new rule is: If it's not about calling my shots it's not about shooting. I've fallen for the speed trap, I thought I didn't but I did. Shooting good points 95% or better and showing fast improvement made me think I was doing the right thing. But in reality I'm not doing the right thing(s). As soon as I try to be fast I can't call all my shots and start being sloppy. I cut corners on correct execution… wrong. All my C's, D's and misses are a result of aiming at the target and not on a specific point within the A zone. I will have to build the discipline to take the time I need to hit the a zone and know it. (I've started imprinting my selfimage as: I know I shoot alphas). Invest in correct execution and speed will come by itself as a by product. The goal is proper execution and not being fast. The smaller circles principle can be applied on execution of e.g. the draw and to the aiming/shooting process. Without trying to give a full description of the principle it is about perfecting execution of for instance movement that you can do it faster or you need less movement to strike with the same force. A good example is the 2 inch punch of Bruce Lee. This principle made the importance clear of my changed approach I wrote above. It's not about cutting corners to see with how much I can get away with. This will create a performance plateau later on and it will be a lot harder to repair then. I thought I was smarter and I understood things by trying to do things sooner instead of faster. In reality I was trying to run before I could walk. Trying to apply advanced techniques is very tempting to me, partly because I can learn new things quit fast. Problem is in adding the next thing before having internalized the one before. Very useful I found the analogy with learning tai chi, I studied Tai Chi for a few years from a Martial Arts perspective and learning new movements in slow motion and focusing/sensing the body during execution by learning to feel how much muscle tension is needed during execution. This has helped me understand the draw and reload better and I'm becoming smoother and faster in the reload/draw. I'm improving faster and more consistent, at least that's what the numbers are telling me, will need some more months to be sure though. Brian thank you for charing this book tip with us. this was a good example of maku mozo regards,

I saw him this year at the North Sea jazz festival in Rotterdam - Netherlands. you can find some footage on youtube. I was blown away, he is awesome, I like trombone players a lot, especially the funky ones like him and Fred Wesley. Together with The Robert Randolph family band the best concerts (North Sea Jazz, is 3 days 12 stages) it's one of the best and biggest festivals.

This weekend I had a level 2 match. I'm pleased with my perferformance and with the result. I competed in standard and scored major, my match result is 67 %, my second best result, but this time I was 10th in standard of the 44 competitors. My performance was good because I did not had any screw ups, not mentally or physicaly in the execution. My gun performed ok I had one small malfunction a round that did not chamber well. As you can see I had good points, I took the time I needed and this resulted in using more times then the stage winners. In stages I loose it on large target arrays, both my splits and transistions take time. I had only one stage filmed. I'l post some more on my performance review later.

This week I've been preparing for a level 2 match for next sunday. I've been preapring my gear. Last week when I was at Juergen Flass the importer for SVI he showed a few things for my mags. I now got 5 magazines ready for competition. I like it when people show you some things you can do for yourself instead of trying to get paid for every little thing they can. Juergen has prevented some impulse buys I wanted to make. Highly recomended. Our local range is closed during the holiday season and will open next week. So I had to stick with dry-firing. During my dry-fire training I've paying attention to what Brian calls the Set. It was something in the art of learning I'm reading and some other things I've become aware of recently is that by incorperating feeling while visualising a stage or a drill, I could be more smooth and relaxed. Today I've been paying particularly attention to any muscle resistence during my draw. Finding a way/feeling of less resisitence during the draw. At the end of the session I taped mysef and compared the video with some earlier footage. It looks more smooth. Tomorrow I'll use the timer to see if I'm faster maybe. I'm not yet sure if this is a good thing, I think I have to repeat this excercise some more before I increase the spead consciously. It feels good but I'm afraid to screw it up by using a timer and get caught in the faster game. In 10 days I'm leaving for three weaks to Brittany in France for a holliday with my wife and kids. No live shooting then, so I focus on mental and visual training and reading shooting and training related stuff. A a side note I'm planing a Level 2 match in the end of november, we'll have 7 stages, normally we do 6 over here, but I wanted to offer something extra for the shooters. I'd love to host a level 3 next year with 12 stages, it will depend on the support I get from our local club and shooters.

Book: The art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin I ordered this book after reading the recommendation from Brian Enos on this forum. I have read the first part of the book and this one of those books you have to read several times over the years to get to the full understanding the writer is trying to convey. It's not written in the easiest English, but not so much you get distracted from trying to understand the writer. One of the more interesting concepts to me is: investing in losing. This is about sacrificing your result in a match to the greater goal of learning a fundamental skill. For me this is about calling my shots, I've been focussing to much on movement and this is has had a bad affect on my ability to call shots. After thinking about this I'm less willing to give up calling shots for anything else. I'll post later more on it, this books and the principles it contains deserve some more dedication so I can write something useful for others. Another book I ordered is Choke. about why we choke when the stakes are high. Personally my only profound choking experiences in sport are related to lead climbing, when the route is at the limit of my ability and I'm above my last anchorpoint. At that time a mistake by me will cause a fall in the rope and the testing of the anchorpoint and belayer. I'll report more about hese books when I get to it.

New toy and some other stuff I bought I have a .22 conversion from STI. I had bought a special top piece for it replacing the sight rib. With this new part I can fit the conversion on an open gun. Because I have no open gun and wanted to shoot wit a dot sight for fun. I bought weaver rail and a See-more sight from Hong-Kong. In the picture you can see the result. Obviously there is no dot-flip with a .22. Also I bought 31.000 NOS lead cast bullets. NOS in New Old Stock, there originaly from the UK they're form the period before the gun ban, and were now offered at a good price. €10/1000. This is less then the price for lead. For my Dillon 650 I got a uniguetek micrometer, I'll be installing this one in the next week or so. Still waiting for my SVI, it's been over 12 months but there will be a new shipment to Europe in september. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Grip pressure I have started shooting after a period of not shooting. I used to be quit strong in my hands, arms and shoulders. As a result of years of practicing martial arts and rock climbing. In the past I had the tendency to overgrip the gun and loosing trigger control (I've had carpal tunnel syndrom in eight fingers). At that time I had to lighten my grip consciously to keep trigger control. It seems I was trying to stay away from overgripping and was using a light grip trying to mimic my grip from 10 years ago. But my strength has gone, and my light grip has no relation to the recoil only to the feel of 10 years ago. I've been experimenting with grip pressure and have discovered I can grip much harder without experiencing side affects to precision of trigger speed. It also helps in recoil control. It's also easier to keep following the sights in recoil. I have to put some strenght training in my program to improve in this area. Yet anaother thing to ad to the program. Before this happens I'll have to to balance my priorities first.

Keeping motivated I've been reading Mind Gym, by Gary Mack, it's a valuable book for everybody interested in understanding and improving his mental game. One of the things I find difficult is staying motivated. For me it is important to improve my goalsetting and logging my performance to see my improvement. Allthough I thought I had this one covered seems I've missed the importance of short term goalsetting. Like making a draw at a full target at 15m in 1,3 cold and hitting the A zone before september 15. Although I understand the importance of setting intermediate and short term goals and measuring them to see progress to stay motivated. I find it a tedious job to measure and record my performance. I find my self slacking on this after a few weeks after I've started. In part this is because of I'm the only one in my club who wants to do this. Writing this sentence shows me that I'm not willing to pay the price to reach my goal hmmmm. I look forward to the new CED 7000 pro as a useful tool in goal setting and keeping a log. It's the log keeping I find hard to keep up.It'll be released about the time of the worldshoot when the software gets done.

New insights into training I've been rereading the second book of Steve Anderson, and this has given me a better understanding of his posts in my log. Especially the conscious and unconscious mind aspect of performance in competition and training. It is certainly true that learning IPSC is a stacked learning experience. Although my understanding of the principles exceeds my abilities at the moment. I'll have to put more time in live and dryfire instead. It's now clear to me I'm thinking to much or overthinking things and making it more difficult then necessary. One thing that interested me was that instead of focusing on proper technique I could also design training that "forces" me to execute technique properly so I can stay with the shooting instead of the moving. Although it makes sense to me I'm still figuring out how to design exercises for my practice.Currently I think the solution is in micro-drills like mentioned in the book of Mike Seeklander. Also Steve's drill's are good examples of micro drill's. deliberate practice is what I need!!!

It's been a while since my last entry I've had a lot on my mind (still have), this affects my effective behavior in a large way. Still strugling to get work balanced with my private life. Never the less I can report some progress. I've been for from deliberate perfect practice, to be honest it was very random and unstructured. (no this does not sound like me, or does it? grrrrr) I'll post my insights and other 'relevant' things in seperate posts. How muscle tension affects performance I've been made aware of my high muscle tension, I easily develop this as a result of my adhd. In the past before medication I had 4 or 5 discs out place every three months because of the high muscle tension. Since a few years I'm on meds and the muscle tension is not as high anymore. Under stress I've been building up tension again. When I was at the North Sea Jazz festival for three days in July, and enjoying good music and dancing (well sort off) I noticed my muscles relaxing more and more. As the tension was released I was able to move more smooth or supple/athletic. When I dryfired the next day I was able to push my self much faster without being sloppy. My movements during live fire were a bit smoother as well. I made the link to shooting when I was watching GM from DAA, Saul explained how easy a sub-second draw is when you relax your muscles. Although I've always known this but I don't pay enough attention to relaxation, it's one of does things I can always do tomorrow…..not. The key to success is a combination of physical exercise and mental exercise to support the shooting.

thanks for the tip added the book to my wishlist on bookdepositry this part of the article is very familiar to me. Thinking too much about what you are doing, because you are worried about losing the lead (as in Norman's case) or worrying about failing in general, can lead to "paralysis by analysis." In a nutshell, paralysis by analysis occurs when people try to control every aspect of what they are doing in an attempt to ensure success. Unfortunately, this increased control can backfire, disrupting what was once a fluid, flawless performance.

went to the range yesterday evening. Had a hard quieting the mind, in the afternoon I received some distracting legal documents. I was able to get some things I have worked on in dryfire into practice. I'm keeping the gun high in my face box almost all the time. I'm abel to start moving better. When moving sideways it feels more natuarl to get in a stance/position that enables me to move quickly to next shootinh point. Moving forwards I still tend to rise to much. This keeps me from stopping quick and smooth. Have to keep my center of gravity low. After reviewing the footage of the training I discovered that when shooting on the move my knees are touching and I'm very upright or unnatural bend at the hips. Stopping and accelarating isn't smooth or effective at all. My hits we're reasonable, could not keep a proper sight focus for shots under 10 meters, I was sloppy and I deserved the C and D hits I shot.

Hi Thankyou for tipping me on the practice magazine's. The crtc one's are not as expensive as I thought. Any thoughts on the durability of it. I think I heard they are sensitive for heavy use at the spot where mag catch grips the mag. The DAA looks good, have seen one in january, did not handle it myself though. Delrin is very tough but this willl be out of my price range (based on the offered rebate). I might be better of getting a used tube and put dummies or something to subsitute for the weight. thanks again for the input.

Clever ad indeed, got to me in the end, getting soft.

I've been spending more time feeling or sensing my shooting stance. A few posts back I posted that there is tradeoff between tension, temper and speed. These have to come together to be fluid in my motions and not waste any time. I found a great post frome Dave re in his rangelog dated on: Posted 14 January 2007 - 06:26 PM Posted 14 January 2007 - 06:26 PM So, three people have asked about the "never shoot flat footed" thing I mentioned on Catfish's thread, so I guess I'll detail it here.... First, I'll set up the situation - if you read in Derrick's thread, you'll see that he mentions standing flat footed and straight up, and then tends to get pushed backwards onto his heels after the reload. He doesn't have this problem while shooting a field course. The answer is simple - he's shooting from a different stance.... Ok, that's easy, but how does that translate into "move... even when not moving". Its probably 90% mental. However, the physical setup is also important. There's a tendency in approaching speed shoots and standards that we approach them more non-chalantly, or that we're more focused on the speed of hosing up those targets from this static position, and we don't pay attention to the stance that we're getting into, and the form we're taking in commencing with the shooting. And, therefore, we tend to lose our recoil control, and then gun tracks all over the place, and we ask the RO, "Where am I? And why am I in this handbasket????" To counter that tendency, I set up the same for every stage, for starters. Weight on the balls of my feet, but balanced. Knees slightly bent, slightly forward posture with a feel of positive forward pressure in it, and body set up generally in a good shooting position. For odd start positions, I do what it takes to get as close to that as possible - for me, that usually involves getting into that position where I'm trying to shoot from first, and then moving into the start position - this sometimes requires modifying the stance a bit to get into the start position... anyway, YMMV... So, my stance is attempting to be exactly the same, all the time. Stance is so important to recoil control, gun tracking, etc - you can't compromise here. Do what it takes to always be in a good shooting stance!!! Now, the mental part. I want to feel as if I'm about to explode out of that shooting box, just as if I had a 10 yard sprint to the first shooting position. Its definitely a feeling of dynamic tension in my whole body. I tell myself I'm going to be moving - without moving (maybe not in those words... but that's the feel). I feel the weight on my feet as if my feet were highly tensioned springs about to be released. When the beep sounds, I'm the hell out of there - but I don't move a step. That further cements the stance into being a dynamic, living thing, that doesn't get pushed around by the gun. It also helps correct any lazy tendencies towards starts or focus on stand-and-shoots. Note - importantly - that I did not say that I get tense. On the contrary, I clear my mind, relax my shoulders, breath slowly, and fully, and focus on the first thing to do. Learning to be calm and focused, and still be in a state of dynamic tension took some time, but its worth working on. Being tense implies axiety, worry, fear... to me. I'm not feeling any of those things when I shoot. What I do feel is anticipation, excitement, and adrenaline - also things that get the body moving, but in a completely different way. Anyhow, hope that helps someone... Well Dave this has certainly helped me understand the feeling I'm looking for. Now I can make a distinction in the type of stance based on the stage. I will take this new insight into my practice and comment on it latter. It has helped me be more explosiv from my starting position and will help me be explosiv during movement in a stage. It will also help me not to take to much time getting in a solid stance if it is not required for making the shot.

I spend the last days with dry-firing and rethinking my approach to improving as a shooter. The posts by Steve and Flexmoney got me into rereading Steve's second book. Principles of performance. In a previous post I assumed I understood what they we're telling me. Well I did not, at least not to the full depth of there post. This is another lesson in: Assumption is the mother of all f*$#ups. And understanding practical shooting is about stacked learning, were a new insight deepens previous knowledge to a better understanding. I now see recognize things I can and will improve in training and competition. My approach in improving as a shooter is about deliberate perfect practice. Deliberate practice in the sense the training has a purpose and has the proper priority on the "things' that need improvement most. Perfect practice that the training is effective and efficient and will make me a better shooter. Both deliberate and perfect practice are closely related to each other but the deliberate part is mostly preparing and reviewing my performance in training and competition. Perfect practice is more about the execution of the shooting performance regardless if it is in a training or competition environment. With a better understanding of the way we learn and can control our performance I now see that flaws in my training mindset. I've made the mistake of trying to think about to many things. Mistake one is the trying part and second thing is assuming I can consciously think about more than one thing at a time. Steve gave me the insight that by designing a drill that 'forces' you to execute a movement a certain way we can keep the mind on the shooting and let the unconscious mind execute the 'new' movement. Don't know if I'm clear on this for everybody.

Hi I'm looking for a cheap way to practice reloads with weighted magazines. Does anybody know if there are any airsoft magazines that fit or need minor fitting to be used in a STI. I've seen there are many types by different manufacturars but don't have a clue witch one could work. I have a mag from Western Arms it's heavy enough for my purpose and can take a beating.