sgtlt Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 I got picked to be the first shooter on the first stage, didnt have time to look the stage over well. Should I have held up the squad to check out the stage better? I shot poorly on that stage. Any advice would be a great help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 Always assume you will be the first shooter. Make sure to get all the time in your walk through that you are supposed to get. I have no problem holding up the squad to get my share of time. The flip side of that is that I'm usually doing more than my part to help reset and run shooters the rest of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j1b Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 If you know what you want to do, then shoot. I think many times we have a tendency to let other shooters confirm what we believe is the right path. If you're new, then this could be the case and I'd definitly slide down the line. If not though, don't worry about it. Yes, sometimes someone else will find a better rabbit trick but that may happen regardless. More than likely it won't though - which makes it that much less a factor. In this forum we always read about sticking with the fundamentals, don't get distracted from this, that or the other. Never forget one thing. The order has nothing to do with the shooting. The fact that we let it impact us means that before the stage hasn"t even started and we're letting things distract us from the shooting. If you know what you want to do, shoot whenever your name is called. Have confidence in your decisions. The order is random, it isn't the hand of fate reaching down and touching you. It's simply a shooting order that has no bearing on your performance one way or the other. That's my two cents on it at least. J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidball Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Always assume you will be the first shooter. With this in mind . . . Always arrive at a match early enough to check out the stages to your satisfaction, whatever that is. If you can (like at a major match), find out which stage you are shooting first and make sure you are comfortable with what you will do there. If it is a club match, be familiar enough with all of the stages to get comfortable with ANY one of them during the designated walk through. For me, comfort breeds confidence. Gotta have the confidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricW Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Just walk up to the line and shoot. Trying to feng shui your chi really doesn't help. Either you know what to do or you don't. Experience provides that and not much else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSeevers Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Don't develop a phobia or mental block like people do with swingers, shooting steel or going first. Everybody has to go first sometime. Really every time you go its your first. Unless its a reshoot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Orr Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 I got picked to be the first shooter on the first stage, didnt have time to look the stage over well. Should I have held up the squad to check out the stage better? I shot poorly on that stage. Any advice would be a great help. IMHO - You should have begged off and asked to be put in down the list of shooters. Without a solid plan you can/will crash - and there is the match in the crapper. I have a tendency to do that when I shoot first on a stage.....I hate to hear my name called until several have gone before me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Micah Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Make it a priority to check out the stages BEFORE the match, even at the club level. No one likes shooting the bs before a match, but you need to break away and plan your attack. Those that fail to plan plan to fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittlePistol Posted February 11, 2007 Share Posted February 11, 2007 (edited) I got picked to be the first shooter on the first stage, didnt have time to look the stage over well. Should I have held up the squad to check out the stage better? I shot poorly on that stage. Any advice would be a great help. Like others have said, don't let shooting first be a mental block. I get the jitters every time I step to the firing-line no matter where I'm shooting in line. One thing I have found that helps is to just stop, take a breath, scan the course mentally and remember, that beep won't sound until you have given the RO "the nod." FWIW -LP Edited February 11, 2007 by LittlePistol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPatterson Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 There is always the excuse used by some of our gamer shooters, " I'm not loaded yet." Really screws them up when you tell them you'll wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XRe Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 No one likes shooting the bs before a match Then why do we seem to do it so much??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basman Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 Wither i'm first or last on the first stage I still have the jitters and usually shoot the stage at about 85 % speed just to get it under my belt and warm up a bit. going first on the first stage will allow you more time on all the other stages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Always assume you will be the first shooter. That's great advice, which will be the best approach over the long haul. be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midvalleyshooter Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 I can only add one suggestion. In addition to taking the time and getting prepared, I suggest you volunteer to go first for a few matches. Pretty soon it becomes no big deal and even becomes an edge. Pretty soon they won't let you go first:) Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyin40 Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 Last yr toward the middle of the yr all my first stages of the match were my worst ones. I didn't realize it until a couple of weeks before Nationals. I was looking over results and noticed I consistently screwing up the first stage, mainly at bigger matches. This was nothing but nerves and "trying" to shoot well instead of just letting it happen. I even told Flexmoney about it on our drive to nationals. Just realizing it was half the battle. I just told myself for a couple weeks prior to nationals that its just another match and they have the same targets I have been shooting at all year. Just relax and shoot. Wouldn't you know it my first stage at nationals was my best stage. Now to apply that to each and every stage will be the next goal to achieve. Flyin40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosshooting Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 The first stage for me is the most important one. It is very delicate point to prepare mentally for it (in my opinion). So I repeated for me that my first run must be relaxed and balanced and I risk even to be a bit slower that in usual! Is this philosophy is good for a start? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9x21 Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 Always assume you will be the first shooter. +1 Better yet, you should want to be the first shooter. Plan your preperation to be that "ready" to go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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