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I think it'd be fair to use the High Hit Factors from 99-11. With nothing at all to support it other than my general feeling, classifier El Prez tends to be a pretty easy one to score well on, I've shot upwards of 125% on that during matches. The 5 yard increase would probably come close to making the HHF accurate. So that would mean GM times at 15 yards would be somewhere around 5ish and M around 6ish.

I'd say a 15 yard el prez is a pretty good test of general shooting skill.

Yeah I agree with this. I've found that as trainees get older, they need to devote more and more time to things like sleep, nutrition, stress management, recovery, etc. Kelly Starrett at MobilityWod has some fantastic stuff on this from the recovery and maintenance standpoint.

For what it's worth, I'm nothing special. Don't yet have any real great wins. I'm just a guy that likes to shoot that put a pretty large amount of work into it. My first classification in IDPA was marksman, my first classification in USPSA was C, and I spent over 2 years in B.

The body is amazing how it can adapt to the environment it is placed in. This unfortunately includes adapting towards doing nothing if you are sedentary.

A lot of people make decisions on products/services to use based on the reviews of it. I started out shooting competition in IDPA about 15 years ago...the last IDPA match I shot was about 11 years ago. The original post illustrates only about 50% of the reason I made that choice.

For most inactive men, decrepitude starts around 30. That being said, if you can move reasonably well and are fairly robust, you should be able to shoot at a pretty high level at the least into your 60s, and I wouldn't be shocked to see shooters older than that still perform pretty well.

I think most people with a G on their card could do it from the low ready without too much trouble. Probably a whole bunch of Ms too.

Well to be fair, sub one second would be pretty easy with a pistol from the low ready too.

Ultimately, your foundation for applying force is always best when you are applying that force from the ground. I try and set my grip/stance up to transmit as much energy into the ground as I can, so in this case I want to be slightly unlocked and tense from my hands through my arms, through my trunk, into the ground. There is a lean forward/down to whatever degree is necessary to prevent the recoil from moving your upper body. If recoil is moving your shoulders, that is energy being directed in a sub optimal way and is also adding an additional variable that can impact how the gun tracks throughout recoil. If you aren't interested in trying a different way, that's totally cool. I personally think the gains would be worth the effort.

Locking your joints make it pretty difficult to manage recoil effectly since the energy is more directly transmitted through your skeleton instead of the muscles you are tensing. So in actuality, locking your arms is limiting your ability to get the gun back on target at the earliest moment. Straight but not locked is the best place I've found to be. I doubt you'd land from a jump with locked legs. Not the same thing obviously, but close enough to be relevant.

Really? You don't think the ability to hit the target or call your shots is more important than anything else? Honing all skills to perfection in balance is great in theory, in reality we usually have to pick one thing to really focus on bringing up at a time. I don't know about you, but if I want to make an appreciable advance in my skill in one area, it's going to take about a year of training before people start to notice. I was just using that as an example. Doesn't have to exist in the real world to understand the point behind it, but the example still works with your way of it. GM shooting abilities and A class movement will spank A class shooting skills and GM movement any day of the week. Of course it takes shooters a little while before understanding the nuances of improving on other aspects of their game beyond pulling the trigger. I also don't think that is necessarily a bad thing. If you're getting several penalties per match, forgetting targets, not calling your shots, etc; fixing all these things first will be better for you as a shooter both in match performance today and your journey of development than bringing up your movement skills. I think the concept of triage absolutely applies. Fix your worst problem. Rinse, repeat. I'd say consistency separates the top shooters from everyone else. The top 10 in each division at the world shoot or nationals probably don't have any glaring weaknesses. The person that wins is usually the person who made the least mistakes. I absolutely agree that there are plenty of people with super solid gun handling skills that have neglected other parts of their game to the point where it is a glaring weakness...of course you won't be successful doing that.

While movement is definitely important to optimizing your score, I can't agree that it is the most important skill. If you have GM movement skills and D class shooting ability, you aren't going to beat the guy that has D class movement skills and GM shooting ability. When people talk about training movement, ultimately all they are trying to do is minimize the time between shooting. Most of this is in how early and decisively you can get moving when leaving a shooting position and how early you can get on the sights ready to shoot when entering a position, the middle isn't all that important relative to the beginning and end.

Haha thanks, I'll definitely give it a whirl. Have a whole list of cool stuff I wanna try and get on video in the spring, I'll put this on there.

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Watch wide receivers route running and you'll see a lot of the same general movements, especially when it comes to slowing down. I don't even think he moves that fast, the impressive part is the accuracy of where he places his feet.

Remember, if you complain about volunteers and the job they do, be prepared to do the job yourself. Looks like the stages kicked your ass. As a Master at 63% I would more upset with my performance than the stages For the record, I sucked worse....but then I had a broken gun Say what you want about Roy, he runs 9 stage 200+ round local matches all season. Whether I agree with his opinions or not (I don't on this matter), he works his ass off volunteering in this sport. Then bringing up his match performance like this is pretty shitty, and casts a huge doubt on your credibility.

From what I can tell a free service was improved on by another person also for free, and all of it was released to whomever wanted to see it for no charge. I don't get what is being stolen here? Who is losing in this and how are they losing anything?

It's hard for me to see it as stealing when no one is getting compensated for anything about this. What exactly is being lost in this?

As far as prevention and rehabilitation goes: mobilitywod.com or kelly starrett's youtube channel.

A lot of the control of your strong hand is skill attained through practice. Experiment with different degrees of grip strength, in my experience I squeeze harder with my support hand and the wobble goes away. Your mileage may vary.

In my experience this means that I'm not gripping the gun tight enough (usually support hand), it could be this for you or an entirely different reason. If you notice this in dry fire, you can be sure it's worse in live fire. Usually the shots that you are making at this speed don't require the precision of frozen sights at break but it is still something that should be minimized.

The dream is real. That's right where you wanna be.

This is for match performance. This is how you improve. In practice, shoot within your capability, gradually increasing the speed until accuracy suffers. At this point don't slow down, work on bringing the accuracy back up.

Three important things. It is not possible to see too much while shooting. Slowing down won't make you more accurate. Speeding up doesn't necessarily make you sloppier.