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I started at a club, then learned what I wanted to read. I went to the bulls eye league at my club. They didn't care that I sucked and just wanted to help. From there I started reading Brian's book, Practical shooting, and looked for training. Like you said in your post, one size never fits all. The low key bulls eye at the club helped me get comfortable with handling a gun. That moved on to Action shooting, 1st IDPA then USPSA. Lots of great shooters offer classes. Mike Seeklander was the 1st dry fire book I read. He offers free FB training on Wednesday mornings that are pretty good., Manny Bragg, Ben Stoger, and a ton more have pod casts and written material. Ask yourself what do you want to learn the most? What do you see other shooters do that makes you say, "I want to know how to do that?" Find out where they learned to do what they do.

I find The art of war by Sun Tzu - which is free on Youtube is very zen like.

When speaking to my students or folks who know nothing about shooting, I find myself telling them that it is the most "Zen" sport that i have ever done. I then tell them about how important it is to be focused and aware of what is going on while you have a fire arm in your hands. Like A-Shot said "...it's a matter of life and death." There is nothing more important then what is happening right now. It's one of the few things in my life that actually calms my mind. For me Zen is that calm. For you, of course I could not define it.

worse yet... have your hand on the belly when asking the due date... and there is none. Thought I had learned my lesson when I asked a co-worker, when she was due, and she informed me that she had just returned from maternity leave. The other 4 people on the elevator were thrilled when the doors opened too!

Hey Coach, I started with IDPA last year(thank goodness, I find it much easier for a beginner as myself) started USPSA this year. I went to a Major IDPA match and did actually get the procedural for air gunning. Good for you to miss them. It is hard going back and forth. I feel it's kinda like these two -> Cracks me up when folks say "the other sport" are a bunch of jerks, cold, what ever. It's never true. There are good folks to shoot with and there are some that aren't as fun to shoot with, doesn't matter what sport it is. It's never the sport, it's always the people. always nice to hear what you are up to. have a great night, Brooke

I will be sure to put on my welders mask when you are shooting...

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Interested in selling them by chance?

Got all the way through week one and all 3 live fire sessions. Today's was mush SHO and WHO shooting. Plenty of stove pipes, some due to down loaded ammo my hubby was trying, some due to my lack of strength. I am just thrilled I have practiced for a full week! Dry fire, need it but haven't gotten to it yet. I am still looking to Coach for knowing it's all possible even with a crazy schedule. Just have to make it a priority for the day time, night time is out.

We will never know when our last day or moment is. I try to recall this when ever I can. It helps me be gentler with myself and others. My husband helps often, when I have too many things going on at once, he simply says, "do what makes you happiest"

Turners would be *very* cool.

So it occurred to me that the most significant distinction I made yesterday was really noticing what was happening when I missed, I was looking at the target not my sights and the gun. I was also amazed when I saw everything that the gun did, I had never realized how much I was missing before. So out of the 250 or so shots, I would say I really felt I saw everything happen with the gun about 5 or 6 times. my hope is to increase that number significantly over the next 13 weeks.

Wholly analisis paralisis Batman! Day 1 after months of prep. Crazyness really. I think I am really just preparing for S&W Indoor nationals 2013. So after many a sleepless night reading everyone else's range logs, I decided I could do this too. Then I ordered my Seeklander training guide and read through the whole thing. I got a little over whelmed I must say. Writing out goals that I never knew I had.. Then there was travel more then usual for the last month. Writing to Mr. Seeklander for the pdf then printing out all my drills.... ::drum roll please:: And now... Today... I fianlly got to the range to shoot! Wow did I have challenges. The 1st drill was to check that your gun is in working order. 5 shot drill 3 times = 15 bullets. HA! that woudl be 30 bullets for this girl It did slowly improve from there, but it was a rough start. I have a crazy match schedule coming up. My hubby loves to shoot and just returned from the IRC in California. this is the 4 week count down to sectionals, 5 weeks to Inependence match, 9 weeks to Area 8, 10 weeks to walls of steel, 14 weeks to Area 7 and I REALLy need more training and practice. Here's to more practice live and Dry!

And if you don't believe this truth of human physiology, look up the force-velocity relationship of muscles.

Color me totally Jealous, can't wait to hear how it goes!

so how did it go?

Ok so Sunday was physical training, running around in the woods. Today's practice... reading and watching Seeklanders book and DVD. I know the next skill I will be acquiring is how to set my timer I did get my oil changed today and there is a range across the street. I did get some trigger time. An hour and about 150 rounds down range. Just working on site picture and shooting accuracy. Worked on loosening my grip strength as well. I had some good shots, still found that I tend to be lower and to the right of my sight picture. Kit, I totally agree with you regarding find one thing and working on it. I just have to write down everything since I don't have real people to train with on a regular basis. I will be on my own most of the time for my practice. off to watching more DVD I will learn to be a shooting Ninja!

Ok, so been reading here for a few weeks now. Saturday was a great day. I received some 1on 1 coaching and got notification that seek landers book was on it's way. ( thank you Kit) So what did I learn today? I do know what a good sight picture is and can hit A's pretty consistently, as long as I don't over think the shot. The longer the distance the more I think, aka push the gun. I need to work on grip strength and trigger finger control. Must release the death grip and let my tigger finger float. I need to get/keep my wrist straight and my weight forward. Remember, "I am a tank", just meaning that the top of my body can move all around while my lower body is stationary and balanced. I need to have a "short memory", getting frustrated after 6 a's followed by a C is just silly and creates more C's. I don't have a specific goal for this season, other then not to come in dead last every time at matches. I am a new shooter. Last year my hubby and I were introduced to the sport after watching it on Shooting USA for years. We never knew it was in our own back yard. I also became an SO and helped run a major match with logistics. (I hope everyone reading this has helped or volunteered at least a few times, if a newbie can do it so can you). That said, this year I want to focus on learning to shoot. I hope to get posts up here every few days. I shoot IDPA and USPSA ans steel if it's around. Tomorrow no shooting for me, wilderness training instead, so I should get back to sleep now. Oh, one more thing I learned, the diff between the top shooters and everyone else is not all about the shooting. It is about the other stuff that happens, reloads, transitions, the rest of the stuff I will worry about later. That's all folks!

Heh, well just because I make them, doesn't mean they will get posted ::wink wink:: for right now I am curious to see what I can see. I am starting my range diary today . FYI, I totally think your fall. And recovery should be on your highlights video, doing what you did safely and the recovery were awesome. But that's just me, I am at the point in my game where I learn the most when stuff goes wrong.

Good video, you might have even inspired me to do some video. hmm... now where is that video camera?

I was brought up with meditation starting at 8 years old, I am now in my 40's and have meditated on an off all my life. The last part of your post, about making an effort to experience it again, made me think your effort could end in frustration. In my experience the harder you try during meditation, the less likely you are to achieve "it", what ever "it" is for you. I have often found if I am meditating for a purpose it is challenging, if I meditate just to practice it's much more relaxing. Not sure if that helps any. And no, you are not loosing your mind.

Yes! That's the one. All the others are great too. Thanks for the help. All of these quotes are needed in my daily life right now.

You are sooo not a slacker you are actually practicing after all, posting is just a bonus!