Black Badge Practice/Study Info?

Unregistered_ said:
Learn your gun's trigger. Dry fire until you get to the point of being able to have a hollow point round placed on top of your front sight not be disturber by your trigger pull.

At the range, don't practice any techniques yet. Fire slowly. Do the drills illustrated above, but at the end of each trigger pull, keep the trigger all the way back. Slowly relax pressure until you feel the rest click before your next shot.
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Two things. One: use a coin on the front sight not a live round, keep all live (or dummy) ammo put away when you dry fire.
Two: once you have pulled the trigger fully to the rear it's ok to hold it for a second to learn follow through as long as you realize this is only a stop gap until you get the concept of follow through. After that, when you have learned to pull the trigger with out disturbing the sights, you need to learn how to pull the trigger quickly which means getting your finger back off the trigger as quickly as possible, relaxing the finger muscles fully will accomplish this but don't get into the habit of slowly releasing the trigger...it just makes you slow.
 
Soooo, you don't think proper trigger control skill should be practiced before taking a BB course? Interesting....
 
PH Racing said:
Soooo, you don't think proper trigger control skill should be practiced before taking a BB course? Interesting....
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You probably don't remember, but the first thing they tell you at black badge courses is unconscious incompetence...
 
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Lol...uh, I think you got that wrong. The phrase goes unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence and finally unconscious competence.
If you can get your trigger control into the unconscious competence before the BB course you are well ahead of the game.
 
PH Racing said:
If you can get your trigger control into the unconscious competence before the BB course you are well ahead of the game.
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See the highlighted part above. The new students don't need to be ahead of the game. They just need to pass the safety course.

When they start competing... well that is whole different story.
 
I've been shooting for about 3 years now and I have developed levels of incompetence that go way beyond what the normal subconscious could ever handle.

Jedi like.
 
Maybe you've forgotten but a late component of the BB course is being able to hit the center of the target under time pressure...yeah I can see why you wouldn't want to learn any shooting skills before the course, that couldn't possibly helpf:P:2:
 
Google Todd Jarret grip technique. that is proper grip. stance should be at least shoulder width apart with apart...with strong side foot approx. 1 step back. Shoot targets . Get all hits on target at 15 yards standing. Google travis tomassie mag changes. Do it like that.
 
RA center has strong IPSC section, BB course in November, if I'm not mistaken.

MartyK2500 said:
Thank you all for being so helpfull. You guys brought up a good point, bad practice is worst than no practice. Having had 20h private issf coaching, i will dry fire 1 hand issf style for the moment. As it wont get me learnind bad stance habits.

At least it will get me learning my trigger pressure. In coaching follow thru was covered. Anyone know of an Ottawa ipsc coach?
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