Posted 17 September 2009 - 04:14 PM
Keep the gun high. You're just going to have to bring it up to eye level again to shoot, so why add in all the movement of dropping it down around waist level, which is what most people do, when you're just going to have to bring it up again anyway?
Jerry Barnhart talks about "the Ready Position" which is the point in the draw where you've got the gun up in front of your face, but it's in a bit toward the face. This is where you bring the gun when it's up at eye level during the draw before you begin pressing it out toward the target, where you bring the gun during a speedload so you'll have more dexterity, and where you put the gun when moving.
As to whether or not to drop your support hand and use it to pump, or keep both hands on the gun, that's very much a personal choice. There are great shooters who do it both ways. Personally, once I've obtained a good two-handed grip I don't like releasing it unless absolutely necessary, so I tend to move with two hands on the gun. Some people drop the support hand and use it to chug during movement, but commit themselves to reacquiring the grip a set distance before the next shooting position, say, two steps before. Experiment with both, see what works best for you.
If you want a DVD you can watch that covers this topic well, I highly recommend Saul Kirsch's 3GM.
Pride and fear are emotions, which hope for an outcome. Outcomes take your attention from the present, where the shooting happens, to the future. It is totally impossible to do anything in the future, because it hasn't happened yet. The key to shooting your best is to be present as the witness of the shooting. Do not judge, do not give yourself anything to live up to. We can only shoot as well as we have trained ourselves to shoot. To try to shoot only induces stress. Be content with your current ability. And accumulate practice to improve that ability. Consolidate, build strength where you feel weakness. We cannot raise our ability until we accept our current limitations. Practice dissolves limitations. Matches simply define where the current limits exist. The game of shooting is all about redefining our limits.
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so, running for me is probably like strolling for most others. But, I am trying to pick up my speed just a bit seeing that that second or two really does make a difference in scores. My question is where do you position your arms and the gun when running? And how do you stabilize your arms and the gun? I know that on short transitions you don't want to drop your arms. I've been told a couple of times I look like I'm 'conducting the band' when running (I use that word very loosely). I've tried to watch others and look at the videos available but I can't quite see what folks are doing. Do you pull the gun into your chest to stabilize it? Hold it out? Hold it with one hand and pump the other arm(can't see me moving fast enough to need to do that!) Should it be up to your eyes for better sight acquisition? 
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and how many bad habits I've developed 
Dropping the gun down has always been an issue. I've worked on it this summer and pretty much corrected it while doing transitions from array to array while standing in the same spot. Now I need to do it while 'running'. 
