PaulW Posted November 5, 2003 Share Posted November 5, 2003 Well this last weekend I shot the best match "technically" of my life. Now I was hesitent on sharing this because I did not want to come of sounding cocky or have people think I have a big ego. But here it is. We had 5 stages for a total of 510 points. Now I won all five stages and won the match by like 20+%. Thats not the point here at all. What I found to be so outstanding is for the whole match I was only 18 points down, and two of the stages had the classic ameba targets. We had a good mix of stages, 2 stand and shoots and 3 field courses. Never in my life have I shoot so well. And this was with a borrowed gun, cause mine is at the shop AGAIN! It all just clicked. Knew where every shot went and had only 3 extra shots for the whole match, and those were on steel. It all just clicked, and it felt great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L9X25 Posted November 5, 2003 Share Posted November 5, 2003 Paul, Congrats! I always knew that you had it in you! It's funny that you make this comment because, while I did not have as good a match as you did, I had an exceptional day of awareness and tracking the dot this past Sunday. The day was mostly overcast and threatening rain but the dot was just so vivid that I was easily able to call every shot and had far better hits than I usually do. Don't know if was the lighting conditions or something else like biorythms or hocus pocus but it just clicked in that respect... let me know if you figure out what was different! Leo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ankeny Posted November 5, 2003 Share Posted November 5, 2003 Paul: I like it when you share. I have enjoyed your posts since day one. Do you think the borrowed gun had anything to do with your performance? Perhaps you shifted more of your consiousness into the pistol and your fire control? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikW Posted November 5, 2003 Share Posted November 5, 2003 Ron, I was thinking the same thing about the borrowed gun. 18 points down from 510 is awesome. That's like, um, almost 97%. I do that on stages but not across whole matches, that's great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulW Posted November 5, 2003 Author Share Posted November 5, 2003 Very good point Ron, I had not thought about that. I was using (Leo will love this) a borrowed SVI that I had shot before and the gun always shot great. But I really felt calm and very focused on doing my own thing. There was a master open shooter on my squad as well and a few times he shot before me and I started to feel the pressure of having to perform at my peak or I would drop points to him. ( good thing I'm not competitive eh?). But I was able to redirect that tension to kinda say ah, the hell with it, just shot your game and I'll be ok. That's all I did. I was not searching for the A-zone, was to pushing beyond my limits, I just shot the gun and did what I needed to do. No more no less. I usually go through every stage in my mind after the match and grade myself and try and pick the spots that I could have done better. And although I still could improve I was not really able to say, man I really kinda screwed up here, or I should have shot the stage a little different. I had really awesome vision. I seen it before but not to this extint and for the whole match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted November 5, 2003 Share Posted November 5, 2003 The pros call it being in the Zone. You had a great day, enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulW Posted November 5, 2003 Author Share Posted November 5, 2003 Enjoy it , sure. Expand on it, absolutely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Anderson Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 Just don't "try" to recreate it. Your experience happened because you executed the fundamentals of pistol shooting subconsciously with a clear focus on the visual inputs. Congrats! SA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Anderson Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 Matt B says: Good shooting is boring. That's very true. When you're performing at the subconscious level there's nothing to get excited about. TGO says that once you are at the master level, you can't help but shoot fast enough...you need to get the points. That is simply a matter of vision. You got 'em both right. SA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bountyhunter Posted November 6, 2003 Share Posted November 6, 2003 And this was with a borrowed gun, cause mine is at the shop AGAIN! It all just clicked. I wonder if you relaxed more than usual because the fact that it was a borrowed gun meant you didn't have the innate expectation to shoot your best and so you just went on auto pilot and let it rip. Same thing happened to me once in our Grandmaster PPC league: one guy beat me every single week by a few points. On finals night, I knew I'd have to shoot almost aperfect score to have a chance so I basically wrote it off before the shoot. I went out and just cranked them off, only using about half the alotted times per segment. I wasn't even aiming that carefully. I put up a 598/600 and snuck by him by about 1/2 point overall. Relaxation can do wonders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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