[ironb]

Here's video footage from my fourth match, I've been shoot'n for about six weeks; feel free and let me know what I can do to improve. (other than lots of practice dry-firing and more matches of course!)

It looks like I lean my head over to one side among other things. And don't make fun of the stupid hat, it's the only thing I had in my car.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=1ikb6MKjbC4
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=-Jp0nEfV-ig
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=yyxnBF3hPc4

Any and all advice is welcome.

[jkrispies]

ironb, on May 4 2009, 06:54 PM, said:

Here's video footage from my fourth match, I've been shoot'n for about six weeks; feel free and let me know what I can do to improve. (other than lots of practice dry-firing and more matches of course!)

It looks like I lean my head over to one side among other things. And don't make fun of the stupid hat, it's the only thing I had in my car.

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=1ikb6MKjbC4
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=-Jp0nEfV-ig
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=yyxnBF3hPc4

Any and all advice is welcome.

Kinda hard for me to offer much of a critcism given the angle of the video, but I'm curious to hear what some of the wiser folks might say. I guess my advice would be to pick some standard dryfire drills such as a draw/6 shots/reload/6 shots and set the camera on a stationary bipod at a semi-closeup so the guys can really analyze your technique, and then do it three or four or five times. One of my goals was to set up the camera and do that sometime this week, but I'm too lazy so far...

Oh, yeah-- and ditch the hat.

This post has been edited by jkrispies: 05 May 2009 - 07:28 AM

[Supermoto]

1st video. nothing kills a steel run faster than misses, you need to call your shots

In the 2nd video you need to move more agressively and have the gun up and ready to shoot as soon as the target is available. On the middle array, I would have probably come in on the head shots and leave on the one behind the barrel. Be more aggressive on you transistions

3rd video, you are double tapping on alot of the targets, you are also getting twisted up as you shoot. find a stance that allows you to smoothly transistion from target to target... speed up the transistions, call each shot

For only shooting 6 weeks, you are doing very well

This post has been edited by Supermoto: 05 May 2009 - 06:46 AM

[ironb]

Supermoto, on May 5 2009, 05:46 AM, said:

1st video. nothing kills a steel run faster than misses, you need to call your shots

In the 2nd video you need to move more agressively and have the gun up and ready to shoot as soon as the target is available. On the middle array, I would have probably come in on the head shots and leave on the one behind the barrel. Be more aggressive on you transistions

3rd video, you are double tapping on alot of the targets, you are also getting twisted up as you shoot. find a stance that allows you to smoothly transistion from target to target... speed up the transistions, call each shot

For only shooting 6 weeks, you are doing very well

Thank you very much! that's what I was looking for.

When you say "twisted up", are you referring to my stance or the way I'm turning as I engage targets?

(thanks again)

[Supermoto]

ironb, on May 5 2009, 12:12 PM, said:

When you say "twisted up", are you referring to my stance or the way I'm turning as I engage targets?

(thanks again)

When you shoot the array to the right, your feet and hips are pointed to the first target. as you transition to the rest of the targets your feet do not move, so when you try to go to the targets between the walls you have to move your feet. Open up your stance so that you can pivot through all those targets

[CHA-LEE]

In addition to what has already been said.....

You need to become very comfortable with the gun being in your hands, it needs to be an extension of you. Not some “Thing” that you are holding out in front of you. Work on breaking your grip apart so you can move faster. In the second video where you move from the first to the second shooting position you are holding the gun with both hands almost fully extended out. That is greatly hindering your ability to move quickly. Additionally you need to think about engaging targets in the most efficient order. For example on the second video when you move to the second shooting position you move all the way into the barrel to shoot the target that is laying down first, then you transitioned up to the head shot targets. You wasted a lot of time going for the one laying down first. You could have been shooting the head shot targets as you came into the shooting position and by the time you were done with those the one laying down would have been visible and you could engage it as you leave the shooting position. That way you wouldn’t even have to stop in the second shooting position, you could move all the way through it. The same goes for the third video. If you engaged the fifth target from the right first then shot the remainder of the right side targets sweeping from left to right (T5, T4, T3, T2, then T1) as you backed up to the extreme left corner of the shooting area you would only have a few further shots to take in the middle and then you could pick up the rest going from right to left. Being close to the left edge of the shooting area you could shoot the left side targets faster and faster as they get close to you. At least that way only half of the targets are long distance shots and the other half are close and easy to shoot fast.

[jodus]

looks like your support arm is limp other than that relax it looked pretty good for 6 weeks IMHO

[ironb]

jodus, on May 5 2009, 05:44 PM, said:

looks like your support arm is limp other than that relax it looked pretty good for 6 weeks IMHO

thanks. yeah, I dont do much supporting with the support arm and hand. I really need to work on that. I probably should stop changing guns and just shoot one gun. (started off with an XDM 9mm, then went to a grandmaster 9mm, and now a dragoncat 9mm). I'm going to stick with the dragoncat and see if I can work on my grip, stance, etc. there's a match on sunday i'd love to go to, but i'm not sure if the little lady will let me be gone in the am for mother's day. maybe i can get a stand in for me for a few hours.

[JoeLaFives]

First _ I'm mostly a Cowboy shooter but some things are constant. I like to think "Athlete" Very few sports are done "standing up" - So more of an athletic approach - knees bent, forward lean type posture.
I like this vid for example
http://www.youtube.c...feature=channel