Jake Di Vita

I highly recommend you forget that machine was ever created.

Tell your son thank you for me brother. I just got mine shaved for St. Baldricks yesterday.

I'd say you need to hit each position quicker and cleaner and probably decrease the speed of your splits by a tenth each or so.

Those help with strength, but not so much with power and speed. I'd really recommend olympic lifting for that. Jim, I'm not saying it doesn't help get you moving, just that it doesn't necessarily help your agility. Dropping those 50 would definitely help more than just about anything else though. Get to work!

Revamping technique could be a good tool. Not necessarily because your technique is bad, but it will force you to pay attention and execute the fundamentals.

That is true, but in reality has little to do with agility. Agility - The ability to minimize transition time from one movement pattern to another. Basically agility is a neurological skill and comes through practice. Agility ladders are pretty decent pieces of equipment. If power generation is an issue, that obviously needs to be worked out before you see any real success in agility.

I have something in the works as well, but it will more than likely be at least 6 months before I have enough info to write an educated report on it.

Mark Twight (Gym Jones) was originally a CrossFit affiliate. They had a falling out a few years ago.

You might see them in the A zone - but they obviously aren't in the A zone when the gun fires. This is a trigger control issue, which is totally seperate from how you grip your pistol. Pull the trigger straight to the rear of the gun without moving the sights, and make sure you aren't closing your eyes when the gun goes off. Make your goal to see as much as possible.

Do you call your shots low or are you surprised when you go down range?

Keep in mind, I'm talking LOHF times.

Anything 3 - 3.5 is pretty damn good.

First thing I do is explain verbally, the demonstrate, then start coaching through dry fire, and eventually when they show some basic understanding of what I'm looking for, move them to live fire. If at any time in live fire they start showing issues, I immedietely move them back to dry fire until it's fixed. I usually shoot 3 rounds or less when I'm teaching someone, unless they ask for more.

As long as you don't move the sights - it doesn't matter how you pull the trigger.

Dwight, Would you agree that the most accurate feedback comes from the sights?

Those were actually dry fire drills (although they could definitely be used in live-fire). I have planned on getting back to it, but haven't wanted to until I could really dive into it. I've actually been working on an addition to the dryfire WODs in an effort to increase the intensity that we use in training. Higher intensity = better results. But I haven't wanted to post anything until I've had a chance to properly guinea pig it on myself. Thank you very much for the kind words though. Keep checking, I'll be getting back to it as soon as possible.

Perfect Practice - Constantly evolving definition of whatever you do that increases your performance.

Yes...it is that simple. The biggest problem with most shooters is they try and overcomplicate what is a very simple action. Bullet hits where the sights were the instant the bullet exited the barrel. Any argument against that is unsubstantiable.

Pull the trigger straight to the rear of the gun without moving the sights. If the sights are on target when the bullet leaves the barrel, it is impossible to miss.

I read that article a while ago. While I think it's one of the most fair articles written on CF, I don't think he understands CF as well as he thinks he does. Overall - really not that bad of an article.

I remember reading that Jerry Barnhart used to routinely score his hits real time as he was shooting.

Sorry dude, thought that was a question. Just tryin' to help.

The reason there was no significant advantage is the reload basically negated the time gained by shooting on the move. The only reason shooting on the move yields faster times is because it gets you to the next shooting position quicker. The more stuff you work into it (like the reload, and re-presenting to the same array + tough shots and slow movement) the less worthwhile it becomes. I would have liked to see you run to one side, shoot both ducks, then engage 2 of the 15 yard targets, then reload on the way to the other side, engage both ducks, then the final 2 targets at 15. I think that would have yielded the best combination of time and points + good match time consistency.

Aim small, Miss small. You're far more likely to hit the A box if you are aiming at the very center of it than just shooting a shot "at" it.

At the height of my obsession, I made a small sight picture (front post and rear notch) out of paster in my rear view mirrors on my truck. That way, whenever driving, I could always practice changing focal distances between the sight and "target." Isn't the exact same since technically the focus distance is the same, but I still saw benefit from it. After all, in terms of vision, I'd say the ability to rapidly change your focal point is one of the biggest factors to success in shooting at a high level. Great question.