Rikarin

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I am in bliiiiiss I just got back home I will give myself a hug becuase I love hugs (its great American custom) ld, that was my favorite stage! I made mistakes inside the ship (went slidlock and didn't notice.. and lost a full mag and needed to go for the emergency mag in my pocket) but still did well and most fun to shoot because it was small people friendly. Please build this kind of CQC stuff again!! aaaaah, smiling, still :)

Yaaaay! I had so so so so so soooooo much fun and soooo happy! I am pretty sure whoever at Area 2 must've noticed how happy I am, because I was bouncing off the wall and jumping up&down and screaming You know, when we are kids, we really play - like softball, cop and robber or whatever - and have fun. More we get old, those things ain't with us anymore. But this 3 days, I felt like I am a child again. Having fun without any hesitation and doubt. After I shot the last stage, I was so happy I was sobbing with joy. Just happy being alive and able to experience this, so proud of myself crawling out from bottomless pit of life 2 years ago and made this happen, and able to give everything I got. What's added to this is, I actually got to do this "prize table" thing (won 3rd in C class PRD) I only used to hear about!! I felt like in candy store. I got Super Suqd DVD and a tiny knife, cap, a bag, gun cleaner, some AR stuff. Yay . I gave Dave Sevigny magazine springs I will never use and he was like "I will pay you" and I was like "no way." He is soooo humble and nice (and handsome, of course I must add ) I was like showing my plaque to Taran and Robbie, Phil and Angus and they are like "oh, do you want mine too?" and at one point, I ended up with like 5 plaques... I should've asked them to autograph and went home! I met so many people from this forum and HI to everybody again. Sorry there's no way I can remember faces/names. But please remind me whenever you have chance and I will remember eventually. I promise. Much thanks to the people who made it happen and building variety of stages. Each stage challenged me in different way and it was quite a fun. And thanks for listening to our complain about lack of walk through (Shooter was allowed to do so only for 5 minutes with entire squad) and change it next year. Pics attached are: *Run, Rika, Run.... *My most proud moment.... jumping off from the motorcycle *Brrrrrr. so cold to shoot from 6:50 in the morning *yes, my hair is the counterweight [attac ment=2674:attachment]

Hahahahha! Geez, stupid people. Ignorance. If you get rid of the symbol of violence, violence will be decreased they think...

1 Minimum power factor for Major 165 2 Minimum power factor for Minor 125 Hope that helps! Mike Thanks Mike.. that means same as Limitted. If I shoot minor, its disadvantage in scoring. I see......

Sorry. I did search but couldn't find the answer and I need it by tomorrow!!! Thanks!

Report from the Rio Salado I am enjoying the match ALOT! Official put so much into the stages and each one is unique and fun to shoot... albeit VERY difficult. I heard many GM's had mikes. Oi! I am really happy to have so many guys came up to me and said " you are Rikarin". Sorry I can't remember your names/faces AT ALL. Geez, remembering the stage is such a job here. I overheard someone in the super squad was saying "we need GPS to figure out the stage". Really difficult. Anyhow...... I got wake up 4am. I just wanted to say thank you for friendship and people who made/running stages.

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Thank you all for suport for my UFC career........ not! I'll just watch Forrest and Tito fight for me. Oh, that's right... I have Tito vs. Chuck at home hooooray :) Nemo: It was a "play fight". I bust out the move, he lets it happen. So, no stress on my knee. But after I got diagnosis, somehow the pain is gone. Funny that. Midas Yes, I have a lot pics but need permission from people in the pic. But some of them which I think ok are attached. Dude, that flak jacket is heavy even without any ammo/grenade And, thanks for welcome back and cheering for my out of burnt out... I think I was just lonely shooting alone, especially, not many people do production. Think about it... most women has family to shoot with. But, now I got one big family and I am sooo happy.

Hahahahhaha!! As if! If you have wife, sister, lover, mother.. who shoots, this is IT. One of the D class shooter just took classifer after the class and she beat her husband who's C class. Isn't it something?? GuildSF4 I will! If I can remember.... I can't' even remember people's name nor who was at the match. Just programming the stage makes my brain buffer overflow. But say hi to me. Its easy since my name is on the score card Bill Great! I think we got lucky with Marines this time...

I remember Julie said something like $80. I just really liked it. Even without FO, I can see frontsight very very clear. I even thinking about going back to Glock becasue of this!

Gosh, it was the one of the best shooting experience I have ever had. Period. 2.5 days of packed all day shooting instructed by Kay, Lisa, Julie and Judy, sharing 2 houses with 20 girl shooters for $300. If you are a women and shooting, shell out and join without hesitation. It would be best money you'd spend ever for shooting. There are couple of women getting misty at the end because we had such a wonderful time. Contents are nothing new of course. Basics - draw, mag change, grouping, transition, shooting on the move... but atmosphere is like nothing else. Its so nurturing, encouraging, supporting. We complimented each other because we wanted to and because it was unbelievable differences we had in shooting compare to day 1 and end of the camp. EVERY body was shooting significantly better. Where else you'd get full house applause when you completed a stage? Where else, no matter what level you are shooting, someone would find what you are doing great - accuracy, speed, learning speed, etc etc - and gives you encouragement? We laughed, we ate and slept together. We shoot in day and baked cookies at night. And instructors! Kay, Lisa, Julie and special thanks to Judy. All wonderful, giving and funny women. Having women as instructors make a really big difference. I stopped my favorite excuse "because I am small...." Lisa weighs almost as little as me and if she can I can too! They paid attention to each individuals and point out problems here and there, which helped each tremendously. Special of BWB fall 2005... we shoot at Gunsite and there are a group of Marines also practicing there. So, we became a giggly and giddy school girls again, visiting there house and gave a pink BWB T-shirt to the youngest and signed it all over, sealing it with a lipmark They visited us at our range and put their battle gears on us. Heavy flak jackets and helmets and all We had a such a wonderful time. The prez of NRA, Sandy shot with us! She is a wonderful, smart and funny women. I felt so honored! And, I got to entertain both girls and Marines by challenging their Sergeant and MMA instructor with wrestling. Ha-ha-ha. He is 200lb of sheer muscle and his arm was literally thick as my thigh!!! First round, he beat me with Kimura in 3 seconds. On 2nd, I gave him a good guillotine choke and I won (or he gave it to me). On 3rd, with the help from the girls tickling him, I moved to give him a arm-bar and he tried to escape but I rolled with him, but hey, his arm is thick as my sigh! I was laughing so hard I didn't even remember how I lost...... Picture attached from the wrestling.. cropped out to secure their op-sec I have a lot of pics but need ok from other attendee info for April 2006 Oh and yes. My burnt out and all those stuff was totally thing of the past I am so fired up for shooting again and looing forward to Area 2

I know sights are very personal experience... but I had an appotunity to shoot Julie's Glock 34 (thank you so much Julie!!!) and awed by it. Front sight is 110wx215h. Narrow and tall. Rear notch 150wx120h. Very wide. It's soooooo easy to locate frontsight. I fell in love with it! warren tactical

Good eyes! Its miracle how he trasnformed his body form this to Batman's this. One benefit of being a man - even most of the time chemically aided, you can sculpture your body by working out to look great. The woman's body needs surgical aid, you know?

I was crying river yesterday and even asked forum admin to lock the thread, It's just really really got me. Finally came out from "burnt out and I wanna quit", I am quite frgile and being a baby. Its not your fault, Steve, Flex. I was hypersensitive as RXe says. My applogy. I know all of you are telling the right thing and trying to help. I have no doubt at all. Shryn got it. I just need too much approval from others. Its' upbringing I guess. You American's are "I am always right" people. Japanese is "Society is always right" people. Shooting - man thing, American thing - is so foreign and challenging, every step of the way I need nods from others. When the nods don't come from topdogs, I loose confidence. And this time, I know I am not doing right but doing it anyway.. so expecting nods is wrong of me . Thanks for the how to figure out" methods, many of you. Since I am finally curious about HF, thought I take this opportunity to try to figure out. Never imagined it inflates into this much. And thanks XRe for explaning where I come from which I have been not able to. Jake, you just don't know the experience of virtually 80% or people you meet at the range "trying to help". (Boo Radly pointed out so well on this, thanks.) Let me repeat, I now people are saying right thing and trying to help! But sad nature of the beast of "help" is, if the help is not right one at the right timing, it doesn't actually helps. Though, you are right it is nature of the beast the forum. I think I was expecting different thing (for your eyes, wrong thing) from this thread. My original question itself is too much of dichotomy and no wonder invited confusion.

Even after my repeated wish and effort to defend myself, Quoting my original topic title is way too personal and this coming from the #1 admin, totally knocked my confiednce out.

Steve, I enjoyed your book! But that's exactly I am doing now. Forgadda about the points. As Brian's Control/Abandon tips says, "....instead of the goal of shooting all A's, just shoot as fast as possible with the goal of only keeping all your hits on the entire target.(If this sounds crazy, this drill is definitely for you.)" I asked about HF because I WANT to decide to shoot fast for the sake of recovering from burnt out and as Brian says " The key is, every time, before you shoot, DECIDE exactly what you are going to do" and I wanted to pick stages according to HF. HF can be the parameter for permission not to care about accuracy. Sure his original idea was doing so "at the practice" but for me doing this at practice is not crazy idea. Doing this at local match, which I have every weekend, therefore its sorta practice for me, was absolutely crazy idea. I was able to do only because I burnt out so much I didn't care at all! But funny thing is, that put me in a new place (oh thanks gracious) I can have fun and work at something at the same time. I will just give this thread to others because there are a lot of great shooters commenting great things benefit other member. Me personally don't want to read about any right thing I must be doing right now. Dudes, For the 14month since I started to compete, I pushed myself really really hard and came really far and really tired from it.

Yes yes yes yes yes!!!! Even Bruce's father, who shows up so briefly had a quite impression and strong charactor. Great movie and of coures, you know, Christian Bale....

Hahahahe. I know, I know, its pennies.. But maybe its so small and shiny. You know, girls like small and shiny things..... my precious....... I rather feel like want to pay of RO to collect them. Serious. But then, if its comfot level, I can tottaly feel comfortable with leaving brass cloroed brass. Somehow, nickle brass are the ones, I got attached to so much! Goeff, thanks for the ammo guage test. I would do that

I don't know why. Its just 10-20 bux but still I have separation anxiety when it comes to letting go of brass at the "lost brass" match, esepcially those are brand new and I spend time adjusting my Dillon. So, suppose I can load with often-times used brass with current settings for Desert Classic. Is it good idea? Do you do that? What'd be the worst case scenario?

La-la-la..... Netflix shipped me Batman Begins.... I am going to have a wonderful night. Yes, Bruce, please come save me!

No problem, Ira. Its good to know other people find something else -- getting points -- fun. And other people approach same problem differently. Being woman and all, everybody wants to give me lecture all the time and I decided a cookie cutter answer "I know what I am doing thank you. I don't need your lecture" hehehehe Besides, you never lecture, seriously. Just always give me support like, wonderful shade in hot days. I know the reason I need to take so much time on distant target which require Type 4/5 or even 3 focus is my index is not solid and need extra time to find the FS. Being cross eye dominant, my index is bit crooked compare to non-cross eye dominat person. So, I need extra practice to make this crooked index as "natural". (no need to give me advice on this. I had extended conversations with Brian) Which require a lot of dry practice, that is oh so boring right now. I don't want to bore myself any further right now. I have habit of jerking and usually, when I shoot careful, shots go to 8 o'clock, since I stop the gun and jerk. But this last week, most of the shots ended up 1 o'clock.... I was told I am releasing the shots too early now. So, I know what to do right? My question and my wish to figure out PF has very regitimate reason for me. It's one of the experiment at this moment. And thanks BritinUSA. I can speed up more if I enter/exit from shooting position bit quicker. When I watch my video, I goes "bang, bang, let's see, move!" I need to get rid of this "let's see" pause and crank up my slider of control/abondon bit more for now. This is fun! Oh, BTW, Brian's words on control/abondon is here Contol/Abondon

I had a totally opposit result this weekend. I haven't shot for 3 weeks and I decided to shoot El Prez first and boy oh boy had 1 Mike and lots of Ds But, my overall placement is so much better than other stages. My time was tad bit slower than top Pruduction shooter ( i went for speed). even score-wise I was bad. This prompt me for the question. BritainUSA make sense. Since this is no movement stage, even I hosed it, I still placed high. Also, I do not need lecture on A's as quick as possible or see enough things, right now I perfectly know those principals. I used to go fo all A's to the point my sight stops completely on each targets. That was a drag. I used to shoot all "control" and took the fun of shooting away from me. ( Did you guys read my post on burnt out? ) Now, I am doing all "abandon" shoting fast as possible my body can move. And funny thing is except for almost consistant Mikes on each stage of course, my overall scores aren't that bad and I am hitting As most of the times. So, I thought its fun to know which stage I can just hose through and have a lot of fun and which one I should be bit more careful and as XRe said, help me to visualize. When time comes, I will adjust this "control" "abandon" slider to the right place

I am soooo math challenged! I read it over and over and have someone explained to me but still can't figure it out. I know the fomula for hit factor, sure. But it doesn't mean if I can decided before I shoot the stage if I should go for speed of accuracy. Is there any EASY way to approx. decide which way to go? All I want to know is speed vs accuracy decision. Thanks!!

Mmm, no dirt on Felx? I am attending one at Gunsite 2 weeks later. I am very looking forward to having a bonding experience with other women shooters. Actually, I am looking forward more so than Area 2o match! Love to see pictures Carina.

Oi vei! Amazing athlete he is. I first thought they speed tad bit up during fight scenes.. but once I watched performance in Franch, was surprised it was not. Those flying kicks ueses other part of body for counter-weight. It must be powerful but need to be so skilled. But I now know how fragile and unhealable cartridge is, everytime he does something with knee, I was telling myself "he wouldn't be walkin in 40s"