Please Review My Match Video

[Rocky Patel]

I've been videotaping my matches from the 1st person for the first 5 months of my career as a shooter. I've recently realized it's much more helpful to see it from the 3rd person point of view. SO here's my first 3rd person video.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=4023592600659&set=vb.1606801107&type=2&theater

Right off hand I see some issues:

1. reloads need to be quicker. Starting quicker and getting back to shooting quicker. Keep gun high. Make sure i know where my next mag is. I saw my self looking for my mag that was not in the correct position.

2. Run faster. I think I'm running. But from the video I can see that I am not moving as fast as I thought I was.

3. Transitions could be faster/smoother. Like from far left to far right. Unlock the elbows a smidge bring the gun towards the chest a bit, then swing over and push back on the target, fire. (Is this correct?? or should my arms stay out stretched?)

4. Fix springs in mags / Check more often. I had a mag spring that when removed from the body it looked like a very crooked banana. Making my rounds nose dive into the feed ramp. Also fixed the angle of the follower to slightly higher in front than it was. Had a few failure to feed problems.

5. My splits got faster during the day. Well if I could shoot faster later in the day that means I could have been faster earlier in the day. I was holding my self back.

Any how this is what I came up with so far. Any input would be much appreciated.

Edited August 14, 2012 by Rocky Patel

[dravz]

http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showforum=142

[Flexmoney]

Moved to the correct forum. - Admin.

[bigfish]

It almost looks like your looking for your shots on the targets to make sure you got your hits before leaving the position. You need to be able to call those shots and get moving. Everytime you look for the hits thats aleast 1 lost second. The other thing I noticed is it sometimes you where good about following the gun into the shooting position and other times it looks like you entered the position, found the targets and then presented the gun to engage the targets.

[Matt Griffin]

In a word: Alacrity. The key of speed is not in doing things faster, it's in reducing the amount of time wasted between doing those things. You're slow-walking through the field courses (feels fast, is slow) you're pausing ever so slightly on every target, I'm guessing to eyeball your hit or think about it, and you're floppy on the draw, throwing yourself at it rather than just doing it with no fuss. The whole entirety of shooting in my book is to reduce, practice, and eliminate every single action except watching and executing the correct sight picture. Figure out where the spot is that you can burst into, stop efficiently, maximize engagements, and then leave most powerfully. Speed shooting sadly is a very boring thing to do once you eliminate the limiting factors. You're constantly waiting on your body and your gun to get back to where you can trigger the next shot, *yawn*. That's one of the reasons I like revolver, it gives me something to do in the boring two seconds between positions.

[Rocky Patel]

Thank you so much for your comments. That one thing I love about this sport is that everyone is so wonderfully helpful. I did come to some of those same conclusions. Maybe not all but some of them. The next week I shot at River Bend and I have a 1st person view of that match. (I took 2nd C and 3rd Limited. ) I practiced my reloads, dry fire, and moving between boxes drills and drawing all week. I also focused on getting to my reloads faster without that weird pause just before and after. As well as upper body strengthening before I got there. Here's the link. Can you see if it looks like I made any progress from that week to the next?

You know on the subject of looking for my shots. I really am not looking for my shots. I don't know why the pause. I think it happens when I try to leave on steel. A few friends told me try to never enter on steel and leave on steel if possible. This way paper shots come off faster on the start and on leaving you don't have to worry about steel falling over to move, just shoot paper and leave. It seem to make sense. No subconsciously trying to confirm if the steel fell or not. I/m definitely going to try to incorporate that into the next match. Between calling shots better and not exiting on steel should see some better flow through the stage. I can't wait to get more stage time in..

The slow running/walking: Not sure what to say there.. I'm doing sprints in the back yard and suicide drills back and forth with all my gear on. Hope that helps speed me up some. (Just on the moving that is)

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=4080808111011

I believe a friend of mine may have the 3rd person view me during the match too. I'm going to see if i can get them to post as well.

Love the input. Very much appreciated..

Rocky

Edited August 30, 2012 by Rocky Patel