Originally Posted by
ECK
OP, I watched your videos. Here’s a few observations, but I admit I still have things I am working on myself.
Stage 2: Watch that 180 on the reload when you go from the center to the left. The video angle is not definitive, but without some conscious thought at some point you may break the 180 since you’re moving against your natural side and many of us rotate our wrists to the left when we reload.
Yup, agreed. Noted that in the comments, as the RO warned me about it after the stage as well.
Later in the stage when you’re moving to the right you keep looking for the center target to find the right spot to engage it, then swung to the right to engage the target on the other side of the blue barrel stack. What I probably would have done was to aggressively charge that target by the blue barrel first and engage it as I was coming into position. That same position would have set you up to swing to the left and engage the downrange target in the center.
Yup, mostly agree. It would have been a tough angle to get A's on the target behind the barrels while moving in, but I could have charged that target/foot location with gun up, taken that first, then swung around to the second target before moving to final shooting position. I kept looking down because I was trying to find my "mark," the position I had decided to shoot from, to avoid shifting feet once I landed there. I hope this doesn't read as defensive--far from it--I'm laughing at myself.
Stage 3: You soaked up the draw with movement to the left, that was good. But you came into position standing up right and your gun dipped down when you came to a stop. You might want to practice coming into position with the gun up and on target but flex your legs more to let them be shock absorbers. Take two big steps as you come off the start position and draw the gun. Then get down into a groucho marx crouch for your next step or two as you come into position while bringing the gun up on target. You want glide into a smooth stop with the gun indexed on target and not make it a herky-jerky stop. That saves time and reduces the shock of stopping abruptly which means you can engage the target sooner.
This one wasn't actually me shooting the stage. It was the one stage that I forgot to have recorded, and one of my more successful stages (figures). I uploaded the video to remind myself of the stage and so others could see and critique. My notes about this and all of the stages are in the notes section below the video itself. Sorry for the confusion. That being said, your advice is spot-on, exactly what Charlie Perez tried to teach me.
Later in the stage you had to back up to find a target when you went down the right side of the stage. That target probably should have been engaged prior to moving forward into that middle position. Its hard to see from the camera angle but anytime you’re hunting and pecking for a target you’re burning time.
This one wasn't actually me shooting the stage. It was the one stage that I forgot to have recorded, and one of my more successful stages (figures). I uploaded the video to remind myself of the stage and so others could see and critique. My notes about this and all of the stages are in the notes section below the video itself. Sorry for the confusion.
Stage 4: No real comment about that stage. I will say that your splits seem fine provided your hits are decent (two A’s or at least close C’s).
Overall, I commend you for putting your videos up for our viewing. Your shooting cadence (speed) is fine, I wouldn’t try to speed that up right now bc invariably your hits are gonna suffer if you try to improve your splits. If your not happy with your hits then I agree your grip is probably not what it should be. I’m not into the math of trying to achieve a 30/70 or 40/60 split with grip strength between SH/WH, rather I just try to tell myself to grip the gun hard AF. But, that doesn’t mean you can’t do everything else at warp speed (movement, coming into position, be ready to fire as soon as you clear an obstacle, reloads) and nailing down a smooth stage plan where you’re not having to hunt and peck or be herky-jerky with your footwork.
Good shooting overall and it looks like you’re having fun.