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  1. Wow this is awesome! As a chronic grandbagger I quickly learned that there are easy classifiers and hard classifiers. Some are even non-GM-able IMHO. but this really brings the issue into a light. Personally, I learned how to game the system and it worked ok for me, but it’s really frustrating to see talented and hard working shooters stay in A/M class simply because they weren’t lucky. I have a few friends like that and they constantly place above their classification at majors and get called sandbaggers. But it’s not their fault, in fact they were *trying* to class up! In the grand scheme of things and with enough time/classifers sure it becomes a wash(unless your club puts hard clsssifers on purpose), but I’m sure a lot of this “I don’t care for classifiers” resentment comes from these HHF calibration issues. I really need to look deeper into this…
  2. Thought this might be useful for someone here. If any terms / instructions sound weird or unclear -- I'll be glad to elaborate more. Sometimes I get lost in my own jargon, and can use your help to define things better (writing a book). Oh I also made double G, L and CO. Next step "LO/CO with a Glocko" P.S. Book is everything I know about shooting pistol + Talent Code and other neuroscience based s#!t. Using it as a background / explanation of Tony "GM26" Wong's method. it will have a Speed part, which is basically GM26 for normies. I kinda sorta bottled it...
  3. This was supposed to be a short not important video. But some people tried it and asked really good questions, which made me remember a few things, so I guess I should park it here as well. Few things I remembered thanks to comments: This method is based on DA/SA experience and heavy DA Dry-Fire with CZ P-09 (RIP) First phase (pre-reset) might be impossible not to fail on light, short triggers like SAO Think of Force Level changes more than of Trigger Position changes, e.g. reducing pressure and finger tissue compression It’s still useful to practice this phase, to increase the resolution of pressure sensitivity in the trigger finger In Glock this phase has most resistance, which helps with accuracy, in better triggers it’s more about range of motion and speed Trigger Pump is a technique using first phase, rapidly increasing the range of motion, until you fail into super-fast reset-click — might help improve maximum trigger speed WARNING: riding reset too close will result in Trigger Freezes subject to tension, fatigue and temperature 32-round count is based on USPSA stage round count limit. Personally I can go higher than that in Freestyle, but WHO and SHO are more around 14 and 24 “rounds” currently. Combined with full strength and intensity of the grip — this works on top of Christian Sailer’s idea of Grip Longevity, which now can be considered Grip/Trigger Longevity
  4. I think I mostly needed to make this video for myself, to just throw things on the table in front of me and see how they can fit together. I thought it would be a short one, apologies - it’s not. 30min, but 1.5x speed and chapters on YT should make this more or less consumable. This might sound like beating a dead horse for some, but I think it’s worth repeating that ultimately in the end all skill progression comes down to improving your Fundamentals (Atoms) and learning to manage them efficiently, together with some minor additional stuff.
  5. This variation with form-over-load and wristLockAngle was mostly introduced to avoid injuries and inflammation, while slowly but steadily developing stronger shooting platform. But now I start to suspect it also helps with reliable index and transition precision, by making everything stiffer and repeatable.
  6. Thought I’d make a quick video during yesterday dryfire. Turned out to be much more text than I expected. Trying to get away from longer format videos. Definitely not adding music anymore(thanks for the feedback!), let me know if this low effort format is still useful, or if I need to get back to text/bulletPoints and/or improve sound quality. This one was shot with no script, so I apologize if chapters look out of order. Hope this helps.
  7. Thanks for the feedback, few people commented on the same music vs voice loudness problem and I'm uploading an alternative no-music version. SD is ready, HD should process Sunday morning: https://youtu.be/clETIBAW89w (added link to the description of the original video as well)
  8. Originally this video was scripted and rewritten a few times, but last version of the blog post is a bit rushed and might have formatting and spelling mistakes, if you report any - I would greatly appreciate it. As some context - I'm a software engineer with no physical labor / job and average upper body strength. To make things worse - I shot Limited for a while with CZ P-09 and factory or even purple brass .40 ammo, which is absolutely idiotic looking back at it. Then with STI and still factory .40 All that made recoil my biggest problem in USPSA. So I messed with it a lot, and the result is all that braindump above. Hope it helps someone, I almost killed my laptop editing it
  9. So I’ve read this book, “Talent Code” and this is the first practice protocol/drill that I came up with, that is using its principles of “Deep Practice”. The book tries to look at talent/skill from brain point of view. It explains myelin & neural pathways, but also follows some high level athletes and musicians, trying to understand what exactly made them great. I run this both with dot and irons, but I think with the dot this should be more useful. Tested it on a few friends and everybody liked it. People find it building confidence, control and speed. Honestly I feel like everytime I do this I get a little bit better. If you have access to a range with steel target around AC-zone size - try this out. It might look like not much, but it’s really live fire practice on steroids IMHO.
  10. Update (since Timney just sent me a form to review the trigger lol (automated form)): No response from Timney after 12 days (original email) and 7 days (2nd ping email): I guess I need to edit that first shots video and post it on YT already... Edit: video is up
  11. > Or is it a simple matter of shooters having individual weaknesses which may be addressed by either dry or live fire? This. But not just dry or live fire. And I don’t call it a weakness, I call it malfunction. if you know what needs to be done on the stage in order to win it / make next classification and it’s within the realm of possibility for you - failure to execute is a malfunction. To fix these malfunctions we can use conditioning. Which can be live fire, dry fire or a workout. it can help to distinguish 3 platforms you as a shooter have: 1) shooting (fundamentals, trigger control, recoil control 2) non-shooting (movement, leans, transitions) 3) processing (planning, visual speed, unconscious stage execution) Processing platform can be conditioned in live and dry fire, but also in non-gun exercises - looking at things, playing video game shooters, etc. you tune this - all you have left are manipulations. Draw, reload, turn-draw, WHO/SHO transitions, reload to WHO, reload to SHO, unloaded table start, all that crap. Usually big difference in classifiers and real matches is due to lack of skill in manipulations in static positions.
  12. Got mine today for gen 5. Felt good in dry-fire. Super weak reset - but it's way better than stock for dry-fire just because it has trigger return spring. Went to live-fire - 10 out 17 rounds Failure-to-Fire, with extremely light impact marks on primer. Attempts to re-fire using Timney trigger were 80-90% same result - no bang. Re-fire with stock trigger - 100% reliable. I thought that it's cause striker drags on the trigger bar, but apparently installation instructions have the same marks on top of the trigger bar. It's possible that sear isn't rear enough and cocks striker 1/4-1/8" less than OEM trigger. No idea, but it doesn't work for me. Emailed Timney - will see what they respond with. Striker and Striker spring were OEM. Ammo: freedom munitions 115 reloads, had 2 failure-to-fire out of 200 rounds that went off when recocked. Maybe they put rifle primers in, dunno - Timney still had 58% failure rate compred to 1% stock
  13. I don't think it would cause a trigger freeze. Wall work / original hybrid doesn't - 100%. Been using it for more than a year. Mental pressure, cold weather, overtrained grip - these things will cause trigger freezes, which usually feels like a cramp, complete isometric static flex of both flexors and extensors of the finger, rather than lack of forward movement.
  14. Something new I've discovered and added to Extended Hybrid specifically to address Glock trigger:
  15. I kinda made few for myself. I don’t really call grip a “grip” anymore, but “platform”, since it includes not only fingers-wrist, but also elbows-shoulders. I had to change my platform habits to straighten my elbows more in order to improve recoil control and even pure transition speed (rotating from angle a to angle b), which affected my grip, since elbows angle changes wrist’s muscle geometry. Doubles and Bill Drills at same distance in live fire work the best to find most stiff configuration wrist-to-shoulder configuration. I recommend doing it well rested, like 2+ days of no gym, no dry fire, and enough nutrients and sleep. Once you learn what your platform looks like - work on making it a habit in dry-fire. things I do in dry fire for that: 1 remember how best Bill drill in live fire felt felt and aim at a target. Try to recreate angles, tension in muscles. Do some dry fire keeping the “platform” engaged 2. Re-establish a platform. Shoot a target once in dry fire, make sure strong hand is in perfect spot, keep trigger to the rear, rack the slide a few times, allowing wrist muscle of strong hand to react to that movement. Keep it straight, try to keep as much of “platform” as possible. This is kinda fake exercise, since you cant rack the slide with full platform due to elbow angles, but it’s a good warmup or in-between exercise. 3 continuing on previous exercise - re-establish the weak hand grip, trigger still to the rear and slide racked. Get perfect platform on a target and try to keep it super tight and focused, while you do the dry-fire with transitions at maximum speed of the reset. I.e. reset the trigger and instantly shoot the target, as fast as possible. That gives you a sensation of a “split”. Now using dead trigger continue dry-fire run with all splits and transitions equal to that first split. I call it dry fire at the speed of the trigger. Try going faster by relaxing your mind and just observing what’s happening, but focusing your grip and vision. That if done properly will absolutely smoke your support hand. 4 Basically re-grip and re-punch-out from holster-out-hands-start-to-meet to target and trigger pull. Mostly working on acquiring platform from the draw faster. Might lead to slower draws at first, but stable stage performance.
  16. Working on my live fire practice plans. Recently added much more accent on Blake drills in dry fire and saw a lot of opportunities to improve: over/under transitions, vertical offsets, horizontal instability and reverse pre-transition swings. Basically all the problems I’ve had in Blake drills in live fire. Some context: My recoil control approach was functional workouts and just precision - doubles cycle in live fire. Precision: 10 shots from draw on 8” plate at 30yd, doubles 20yd IPSC target. Functional training: shooters elbow recovery exercises and hammer levering. Complete brute force, but works. For now. The perception gap between live and dry fire in actual stages is slowly but surely shrinking. So my question is: do transitions behave differently enough in live fire to dedicate time/rounds for them, like more than 50% of rounds per session. Or is 10-20% per session in the end of it enough? Outside of actual/simulated stage runs and specific skills like reloads/draws/unloaded/oneHanded/prop/whatever - what is/was your most productive schedule/plan for live fire? Thanks!
  17. TY93975 for USPSA classifier record. SLPSA / LTD search on practiscore if you want to track local placings. This approach to live- an dry-fire helped me a lot. I'm around 89%-92% calibration for Limited currently and feel like dryfire is around 80% as real and as enjoyable as live-fire. I've definitely noticed that realism percentage go up with the skill, I think around 90% should be possible when/if I hit a stable solid GM performance.
  18. Basically my whole non-live-fire (gym, field and dry-fire) lower body routine these days. https://youtu.be/-knrUZ03D24
  19. I always compete from AIWB and have a crazy dream of making a GM with that (currently A-class). On my favourite practice drill - El Pres - it adds quite a lot of time. So I have to have good draw and reload. So far the only thing I'm missing to make hundo on El Pres is accuracy - my reloads and draws got good enough for sub-5 runs. In this video made for r/CCW (still trying to get CCW community to shoot USPSA ) - I explain my technique. Hope it helps someone here as well. Next video is probably going to be either about my full technique for El Pres, or fitness/conditioning I use to improve my recoil control and accuracy.
  20. OK, I've built that damn timer I wanted: It's free and works on Mobile/PC, http://timer.dryfire.ninja You can add it to Home Screen and it's almost like an app. Let me know if you have any issues/suggestions. If it doesn't work - please include Browser / OS version
  21. @MemHeli You can order them on https://dryfirestickers.com or use virtual stage on http://dryfire.ninja
  22. Someone in r/CCW was having issues with their grip & recoil control so I made this video to help people, who may have more issues with that, than me currently. I've actually had only 2 live fire practice sessions, that focused on the grip and allowed me to improve the recoil control. So if anything is incredibly stupid in this vid - I would be glad to eat dirt and listen to your advice (don't be fooled by the tone of the video, I only look like a douche, I can listen, I promise, plz bb =) ) Ammo used in live fire is 180gr 1020fps Winchester LEO .40 s&w "purple brass" Handgun: CZ P-09 This was originally posted on reddit, but it's kinda dead there in r/CompetitionShooting and people of different subs I tried to share this and other stuff aren't very interested, so I probably should stick to USPSA forums instead or at least leave this here. Some comments with more advice from reddit users txstgunner & TheHumbleMarksman: For me, it's like holding a bench press bar after you've just lifted off before you start repping, that's what the pressure feels like coming from each hand. You're 100% right on the left hand - really do focus on it until it's subconcious and you don't have to anymore. It helps in transitions as well as helps contain muzzle flip and drift due to bad trigger press. I'd add roll out shoulders so that lats engage. My skin on my hands is total trash from dryfire practice. I developed a bad crack on my right hand middle finger due to the cold dry air we've had this winter. Don't use your support hand thumb to press into the frame with a grip like that, it makes the sights track less consistently.
  23. Looks like I cant edit OP here, few small updates on the dryfire.ninja: 1) Swingers (pause/play/FF buttons on the left 2) Random appearing mode - http://dryfire.ninja/#ninja What is minimal set of features you need in iOS dry fire timer? I've stopped using a time in dry fire for a moment and it doesn't appear to ruin it much, so dryfire timer wouldn't be a priority, but I will make it sooner or later.
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