Athena

Factory 19.

Ehrmehrgerd! Happened to me today and my gun and my mags are only a few months old P.S. Shout out to Brandon who gave me the link to this thread. AND a video.

Time for me to butt in again John TORE both his hamstrings. He went to see a doctor, did MRI, x-ray, laser, vodoo all that the day after I got bodybagged. They told him he would just make it worse if he forced himself to run or walk fast. He is still not 100% healed yet today. He is an awesome guy, great shot and great competitor. I have to admit, the first time I met Jay and when he opened his mouth, I wanted to push him into oncoming traffic. For reals. But as I got to know him, he's just different. He's actually a nice guy but with a different view of the world. His gun handling skills at that time made me want to weep and duck at the same time but he is the Happy Gilmore of things that go bang. He has terribad form but he can hit. He grows on you...with time Daryl is a very honorable and exemplary man. Rewind your tivo and watch Ashley's face as they shoot Jay's target. My heart broke watching last night's episode. Jermaine is such a great guy. Keep watching and keep the faith, it will only get better. Things happen for a reason Red Team Nation!!

Ah yes.....silly men. One of the best "advice" I had was at a local club shoot where there was a stage set up with three ports. So there I was choreographing my dance routine going from one port, crossing one foot over the other to the next and so on when this one slightly overweight man with a ninja tactical vest on who happens to shoot a sport that starts with an "I" and ends with an "A" came up to me and loudly told me that what I was doing was dangerous and that I might trip and fall. Word. I could see the other shooters laughing in the background but I just looked at him, batted my eyelashes and said very politely, "Thanks for the advice, Sir. I shall keep that in mind." Then of course I shot the stage with my obnoxiously loud gun, finished without tripping and when I turned around, he ninja-melted into the background, never to be seen of or heard from ever again.

Thanks for the video, Ari! Too bad my designated camera man only took 3/4 of my epic plate rack stage =P BTW, it was awesome shooting with you guys. I had so much fun!

This December is my 17th year competing actively in this sport. I will be turning 30 as well by December. The reason why I posted was that I had just come back from Bali after shooting and fighting my butt off for that Ladies Open Title only to see that some people didn't think my performance (not you, Mr. OP, this comes from the other thread) wasn't good enough. Or any of our performances at a Nationals/Area match was good enough. I was tired, I was cranky and I should have just stfu, slept and left this alone. But I couldn't leave it alone till I got my point across and in doing so, stepped on some toes, and I repeat, I apologize. Being a female shooter is not easy. Not only do you need to have skill to stay on and work twice even three times as hard, but you have to have the guts and the heart and the thick skin to stay on. If I wasn't the determined 13 year old back then, my Dad's fellow gun club members in the Philippines should have made me quit and run off crying a long time ago. But I persevered and plotted my revenge to beat them. And I did, fair and square until they all quit because they got beat by a girl. Repeatedly. There have been many new female shooters who got on but fell off the wagon because of how they were treated at their clubs, not being taken seriously, etc. and that's pretty much how Kay's BWB came into existence, to show women a different side of shooting. Our side and how WE do it. But as usual, I digress. I would love to see a female GM kicking butt and taking names at big matches someday. My point was that I consider being a GM to be: 1) kick butt at Nationals i.e. place Top 16 or higher, 2) plain Awesome. And like I said, it can be done NOW. On paper. I have shot 100% classifiers before and I quit shooting them at club level because I DON'T want to be GM because I KNOW I don't deserve it. Same thing goes with my M card. I believe I should be A class but I guess winning A class at Area matches enough will make you get kicked out of A class. But for now, I am proud of what we female shooters (from here and from all over the world) have accomplished. I hope that clarifies things (and I'm not cranky anymore)....

AMEN and high five to that

Thank you. I know I've stepped on some toes when I posted that and I apologize. I was just getting cranky after my long flight home, seeing how some people think we don't try hard enough, that we're mediocre, blah blah, etc etc, yada yada, yaknowwhatimean? I have seen the classifiers get abused firsthand (i.e. shoot it over and over until you get the ideal time and the ideal hits). I am not saying everyone is doing this but my point is, I have seen it happen and it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I should have been more specific. I'm M class and I don't even shoot M class scores at Nationals. So there. My point is, women work doubly hard to get a foothold in this sport. I will have to work out a lot to be able to even get Average Joe's upper body strength. I am not making excuses, I think I'm just pointing out some facts. Take away the award for women and you take away the chance of encouraging more women to get in the sport. I KNOW that there will be a female world champion someday who will do 90% or better. But it takes a helluva lot of work. But it can be done.

It can be done. On paper. Like many grandbaggers out there who get beat by B class shooters at Nationals.... I, personally, can't live with the idea of being classified GM and NOT making GM scores at Nationals, yaknowhatimean? Here is my tired, cranky and jet-lagged two cents...And yes, I am the 70% lady from the World Shoot in question who never made grandmaster... I've never believed in shooting classifiers because I think people take advantage of it. For me, I think Nationals is the true gauge on how people should be classified. But then again, that's just my opinion. Now the question is, Mr. OP, how come a lot of GM's can't shoot GM scores at Nationals? Oh wait, I just realized that the original post was "Did you know there has never been a Lady GM?" ...so, "Yeah, we know..."

Ummm....that's only one word. Maybe he meant to say, "Freakin Awesome?" It was very intense and I loved every single minute of it. Now I'm sad Heath Ledger is dead because I don't think there is anyone who can take over the role as the Joker. That boy had some major talent.

I went Mac and I shall definitely say, I will never go back. I got the 15" MacBookPro, upgraded it to 4GB RAM...it is smoking faaasssttt and I love it. My main reason for changing was that I didn't want to use Vista because of all the negative things that I heard about it. I definitely did not regret the decision

Awesome movie! For those who haven't seen it yet, when you do go watch it, stay till the very end...i.e. after the credits for a nice suprise that'll make you go, YES!!!! Oh and I saw a preview for an upcoming Robert Downey, Jr. movie with Ben Stiller called Tropic Thunder...looks funny

I opted to run up for several reasons: 1) I can't transition at partial targets from further back as fast as the guys, which translates to slower splits=slower overall time, 2) I can't hit AS accurately if I tried to shoot fast from further back and 3) I just want to run and shoot really fast I ended up with 14 sec dropping 3 points, I think. This was more of strategy on our (the ladies) part to kinda see how we can turn weaknesses into strengths. And besides, KC and Todd are not human anyways

I sure had fun shooting with the Dallas peeps. I had been forewarned by Derrick back in Double Tap so it's all good. The stages were fun and the staff deserved a bunch of gold stars for their hard work. It would have been nicer if numbers 2 and 3 in the classes were recognized as well.

If you....think that...this movie is going to be good....DON'T!! (Loved those previews.) The movies were supposed to be horrible and they succeeded. Does that mean I'm sick and warped for laughing through the first one in its horrible cheesiness ('I don't miss...') and limbs flying everywhere? And the second one....the car chase/stunts were good....