Good Ol' Boy
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This is inspired by 1kperdays thread. Theres a wealth of info in there but I didnt want to sidetrack.
I shot a few USPSA and IDPA matches last year about this time, wanted to get involved and life happened. Fast forward to now and I've made a commitment to get into IDPA more consistently, as I prefer that over USPSA. I'm also going to try some Steel matches and I suspect I'll add them to the gambit.
Anyhow, I shot my first IDPA match in almost a year this past weekend and improved. I shot another match yesterday and improved more.
A year ago I was placing in the last 5 or so overall. This past weekends match I was in the bottom 10 and yesterday's match I was 18 overall and 8th in SSP. I contribute the recent improvement to rigorous weekly dry practice at home, it really seemed to carry over.
I will be shooting weekly Monday matches now and an additional monthly weekend match for IDPA. Hopefully I can mix in a Steel match once a month as well. I expect that, along with continuation of my dry practice that I will see some more improvement.
I will say that for me personally, so far, speeding things up has gotten me better results. I can target shoot fairly good but these comps seem to be A LOT about movement and speed. Thus I dont have the issue right now of being obsessed with getting 0's and am instead focusing on point shooting and getting through the course as fast as possible. I think if I can get to a "faster point moving" that eventually I'll figure out the "being able to set for better shots later on".
That's not to say that I'm in a "spray and pray" mindset, but that I'm not concerned about -1s that much right now. It's more along the lines that if I can speed up moving through the course that I have a few more milliseconds to get that 0 down shot.
So any advice is welcome, although I read plenty in 1kperdays thread.
I do have a question about penalties in IDPA. Yesterday's match I had 15 PD with a raw of 87 and zero penalties, and somebody placed a couple spots above me that had 12 PD and 78 raw but with 15 penalties. How do the penalties factor into score?
I shot a few USPSA and IDPA matches last year about this time, wanted to get involved and life happened. Fast forward to now and I've made a commitment to get into IDPA more consistently, as I prefer that over USPSA. I'm also going to try some Steel matches and I suspect I'll add them to the gambit.
Anyhow, I shot my first IDPA match in almost a year this past weekend and improved. I shot another match yesterday and improved more.
A year ago I was placing in the last 5 or so overall. This past weekends match I was in the bottom 10 and yesterday's match I was 18 overall and 8th in SSP. I contribute the recent improvement to rigorous weekly dry practice at home, it really seemed to carry over.
I will be shooting weekly Monday matches now and an additional monthly weekend match for IDPA. Hopefully I can mix in a Steel match once a month as well. I expect that, along with continuation of my dry practice that I will see some more improvement.
I will say that for me personally, so far, speeding things up has gotten me better results. I can target shoot fairly good but these comps seem to be A LOT about movement and speed. Thus I dont have the issue right now of being obsessed with getting 0's and am instead focusing on point shooting and getting through the course as fast as possible. I think if I can get to a "faster point moving" that eventually I'll figure out the "being able to set for better shots later on".
That's not to say that I'm in a "spray and pray" mindset, but that I'm not concerned about -1s that much right now. It's more along the lines that if I can speed up moving through the course that I have a few more milliseconds to get that 0 down shot.
So any advice is welcome, although I read plenty in 1kperdays thread.
I do have a question about penalties in IDPA. Yesterday's match I had 15 PD with a raw of 87 and zero penalties, and somebody placed a couple spots above me that had 12 PD and 78 raw but with 15 penalties. How do the penalties factor into score?