My wife started shooting idpa w/ me 4-5 months ago. She was having trouble w/ reloads and I got a lot of help in a thread here. She has it pretty much nailed down now and in the process of helping her I have improved myself. One of the problems trying to figure a way to practice is you always need to pause to manually rack the slide. Or you leave the slide locked back and practice just part of the process. This weeks range practice we tried a new technique. I load a bunch of mags w/ just one round. I stand just behind her mag pouch and keep replacing the mag she just grabbed w/ another single round mag. So she keeps shooting one shot, reload, shoot a shot, reload... We did have her shooting at one of our paper plates at maybe 5 yards just to keep it real. We did two 10 mag cycles and it worked really well. So I had her load for me. This really helps. I could go as slow or as fast as I wanted so our plan is to keep doing this. We start out slow and deliberate concentrating on doing it correct and smooth. Speed seems to come along as a natural consequence of the correct and smooth. One thing we had already learned was that her grip strength was causing a her lot of trouble actuating the mag release button w/ her strong hand thumb. So she decided to use her week hand thumb. There was some debate on that but at the end of her second 10 rnd string I commented that all 20 of her mag drops were 100%. In theory that may be a part of a second slower because, otherwise, her weak hand could be moving toward the mag pouch. I am 74 and she is 67 so neither of us is going to be an idpa master but it sure is a lot of fun working on this stuff.