For some of the people who haven’t seen the SWYNTS thread and discussion I’ll reiterate here because it absolutely applies to Bakersfield, which was a vetted and proven drill AND test.
Everything should add and scale. But the flipside is if your base mechanics are shaky or slow, then that compounds slowness in all things.
A sub-second open draw confidently on target with index plus minimal vision is a basic skill.
Add extra visual and mechanical stability and refinement for farther and harder targets.
If you look at my Bakersfield strings (top is most recent, bottom is first string):
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You can see how each increasing distance took a scaled extra time on top of my base draw and stayed within my skill set.
But if you don’t work your base draw, the others will all suffer.
So sub-second draw is about base mechanics and nobody sane would think that’s the only speed or gear you would have.
Here’s a video from SWYNTS to illustrate:
Same thing regarding reaction time training.
It’s not about being slaved to a buzzer. That’s just silly.
Fast, confident reaction and execution can be done off any stimulus programmed in.
So if you want to be able to execute the first three strings of Bakersfield under par with all your hits… every single time… rather than sometimes or never…
Work on your sub-second index mechanics and work to make them more and more accurate and reproducible at speed and good things will happen.
This is exactly the point of the SWYNTS training 3 yard string. Any skeptics, try it for 2 weeks and rerun the Bakersfield. I suspect you’ll have personal best scores.