I made sure i did mine!! it was a great piece of advice you gave us at the end of the match. I actually realized alot of what i need to do to improve and how to incorporate all the drills into a training regime. Im kinda self taught, besides for Still Alive's turoring(which has helped me in leaps and bounds), so this is incredibly interesting to me! Thanks again Allen and it was a pleasure to watch you shoot.
You're very welcome! You did extremely well on many stages. Congrats on kicking ass! You're doing great, and I'd love to see you improve even more. What I've found has worked very well is a highly targeted training plan. Do a thorough self-analysis of your match performance, and pick out areas you'd like to improve. Use those to come up with a set of drills to work on the areas where you'd see the most improvement, quickly. A very basic version I mentioned to you guys was to think of some stages you'd like to shoot again. What was it about those stages that you messed up? Make a list. Develop your plan.
The more you can break it down to specifics, the better. Draws or reloads slow? What type of draw or reload? Write it down and work it into your dry fire plan too.
A common theme with people is a lack of "visual patience" on tough targets. I place one handed shooting in this category too. Get that sight picture with the FSP crystal clear, with the gun pointing where you want, then pull that trigger straight back, while looking at the FSP. You'll be able to develop the skills to see where the sights are lined up, and pointing to, when the trigger breaks. If you see the FSP move when the trigger breaks, the bullet is going somewhere else.
Remember the makeup shots I took? I didn't look at the target at all for any of those. I can't see the bullet holes anyhow, since I'm fairly blind. I knew when I pulled the trigger that the bullet was going somewhere else, so I launched another shot. That is especially true for that t-shirt stage. I heard people talk about looking for a moving t-shirt. What that told me is that people were probably spending time looking at the target instead of the FSP. I wouldn't expect many -0 shots using that method, since sight alignment is really difficult when you aren't looking at the sights.
Developing that visual patience so you will settle in with a good sight picture when the trigger breaks, is what you want to do. Really focus on that FSP and you'll develop the skills to call your shots. It will really help your accuracy, and shorten the time to decide to make up any messed up shots. In your case, this will also slow you down a bit, and even out your performance stage to stage. You'll be tough to catch!
