Steve Anderson
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Our Fireman is very driven. It's not the years of practice that makes the difference, it's the hours.
I read once in a motorcycle magazine something along the lines of: If you ride 10 days a year for 3 years, you've been riding for 30 days, not 3 years.
There are many shooters who have more years shooting than the Fireman, but less hours.
Go get 'em and make us proud.
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Sure.
In Speed Mode you don't judge accuracy, rather you learn what it feels like to do something faster than normal.
Once this new feeling becomes normal, you can either get into pure accuracy mode or shot calling mode.
It'll be in the 3rd book.
SA
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I have recently realized that you can learn to call your shots more accurately by "scoring" your runs on multi shot dry fire drills instead of ONLY pulling the trigger on Alphas. It's a good speed mode trick as well.
This will likely be confusing and controversial.
SA
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My first wife used to flash me on the timer beep when i was doing the drills that would become the first book. I miss that about her.
SA
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When speed becomes normal, all you have to do is decide to shoot Alphas.
It works well to separate the two ideas. Practice can be for speed, match is for Alphas.
Once you know how to shoot and call Alphas and develop the discipline to do so...you can (and should) practice Speed all you want.
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"This weekend I was 4 seconds down going into the last stage. I figured I had to push harder to make up the time."
What did you think was going to make you faster than you are?
Or alternatively, if you were/are capable of being/going/shooting faster, why did you wait until the last stage to do so?
I've never seen anything good come from the conscious control of speed in a match.
There are some personality types that may be able to pull of a Hail Mary run on the last stage, and that may well be a skill unto itself, but for most it will be a lost cause.
Would you be willing to try another way?
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That book will change your life forever.
Lanny Bassham, With Winning in Mind.
Recommended to me years ago by Travis Tomasie... buy it today from Brian Enos.
Do this now.
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This may sound harsh and for that I apologize in advance, but you got exactly what you asked for when you:
" made a decision to push my speed at this match."
You asked your body/mind for speed and you got it.
As for your question, choosing to slow down is just as bad as choosing to go fast and will not (on its own) solve the problem.
See more. Decide to call every shot. Make that the priority. It will feel slow.
If it IS slow (which will be determined AFTER the match) then fix the speed in training.
SA
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I've come to believe in speed as a mode of practice where accuracy is not judged as long as speed gains are made.
Once the speed gains level off the goal is maintain them subconsciously as accuracy is brought back in.
I believe that once your body knows what it feels like to do X in X amount of time, that can (and should) become normal.
Them you're back to just shooting and calling the shot.
it's not mandatory, but i usually start live fire fire in accuracy mode where don;t get to see your time unless you shoot and call all A hits. (Speed is not judged)
Then I like to move to Speed mode where accuracy is not judged. (Even a miss is acceptable IF a speed gain is made and UNDERSTOOD)
Then finish up in pure shot calling mode to reinforce "just shooting."
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Resolve to learn something on every shot in training.
Avoid controlling your speed at Matches and just call every shot.
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It hurts a little... but I can already see it helping improve balance, speed, and agility.
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Dry fire BEFORE Dry Fire!
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Staring at the A has a neat way of occupying the conscious mind, thus freeing the subconscious to perform at its peak.
It also helps resolve grip issues for the same reason.
SA
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Happy Birthday Keen!
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The lock works well, my CR is more secure than the Blade Tech I use in production...
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I have a drill for that.
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That range looks awesome, we're gonna have a blast!
You'll be very tired at the end...
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One of the single greatest posts on here, ever. So Esther, read this again. very Carefully:
Quit trying to visually focus on only the front sight, this is a common mistake. See everything having to do with the shot and see clearer the element most important to the quality of shot you are trying to shoot.
You do not have to see the sights clearly if you are shooting fast and or at close targets.
Remember, easy targets are only easy if you are going slow and hard targets are only hard if you are going fast.
The process of trying to always see too much clarity in the front sight will only cause you to stop aiming and not see the other elements of the sight picture.
Learning to operate the trigger fast is necessary to shoot fast (obviously), and is a highly underdeveloped skill for many.
Aiming is more important than looking at the front sight. At the beginning you may simplify the process by emphasizing one third of the items involved in, but at some point you are going to have to move on from that fixation.
You should arrive at a point as your skill develops where you see the sights but do not have to over emphasize looking for them, especially just the front. Most shooters have been relentlessly drilled to the "focus on the front sight thing" so much that they now believe it should forever be there mantra and only focal point. This will always limit your speed and accuracy.
As far as seeing and keeping in sharp focus the sights during the recoil cycle, few if anyone can do this with a gun that has much vertical movement in recoil. I mean by this that they are not able to track the sights during recoil well enough to actually keep the center of focus on the sight. Your eye doesn't move fast enough. Nor would you want it constantly being moved out of alignment with the target.
Fuzzy sights and a clear target are sometimes better. This will be hard for some to understand and for many more to accept. That's OK, many viewpoints are being expressed and mine is only one, albeit based on over thirty years of intense study and training on the subject.
One truth: Do not search for or accept as gospel a single trick to always focus on other than Skill, confidence and experience. If you do you will be missing something that you oughta be seeing or feeling and your performance will always be lacking......
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Yes.
I have tapped into that hyper-emotional state of distracted non-caring a couple of times, and it was just as likely to yield a bad performance as a good performance.
On one stage I was too worried about heroin girl to care how I shot. (shot very poorly)
On the next stage I wanted to get it over with so I could get back to worrying about heroin girl. (shot brilliantly)
And, even if it is proven to be good for performance, I cannot recommend becoming involved with a heroin addict under any circumstances.
You can't afford it.
(btw, this was a long time ago... these are not recent events or recent ex-wives.
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Good job on the tobacco dude... Do you feel a little calmer without it?
Your tobacco free weight loss dry fire divorce buddy,
SA
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"I am not concerned with whether I'm winning by 10% or losing by 10%. Not important, that's for after the match. Execution is what's important."
I am convinced that this is the best mindset for 99% of us.
It has always been in this mode when I have shot my best.
And when others talk about shooting their best, it's usually very similar to what you describe...
Attaboy!
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Focusing on the outcome is the surest way to avoid the zone.
Executing one shot a time is the surest way to stay in it.
The problem is that it feels slow and this scares us.
So we speed up in search of the feeling we think we need.
Then the wheels fall off.
Then we start looking for the secret again.
Repeat until it hurts, or find a way to break the cycle.
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You can use a metronome app to force your transitions to get faster in dry fire. I find that it works well with people who are stuck in "double tap" mode on multi shot drills.
Set the metronome for a speed that is comfortably quick and then pull the trigger in time with the metronome on one target.
Maintaining that trigger speed, introduce more targets, then up the speed til you can't do it anymore.
Always see the new target and then bring the gun onto it. Don't ride the gun over. It's slow and imprecise.
Enjoy!
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That's a great example of the "speed mode" of practice where you don't judge accuracy.
It's a great training tool because it shows you what you can do, and you learn what it feels like to perform very very quickly.
When this feeling becomes normal, you can get back to calling the shots and retain the time gains.
Excellent!
As for the close shots: "I knew the shots were easier" caused you to disrespect them.
SA
The balance of speed and accuracy
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And you did it anyway because you haven't yet trusted it.
"You're exactly right that my decision to "go fast" was equally a decision to abandon all of the stuff I learned in your class and I got exactly what I strived for...a fast stage, and nothing else."
Right.
Now how many more matches are you going to waste before you trust me and just call your damn shots?