Pistol-Forum.com Drill of the Week 16

I've been doing the p-f.com DotW for awhile, and it has been fun---and it keeps me making myself go to the range even if it is raining, freezing, I'm tired, etc. I still manage to get out there, which means I get live fire time doing a bunch of different drills that wouldn't normally occur to me.

It isn't often that I'm doing a drill or practice session based on someone else's ideas---so this is good.

So, I'll be trying to keep commenting on the various DotW that I do, along with commentary about my own practice drills.

P-F.com DotW 16: Acceleration
http://pistol-forum.com/showthread.php?2801-DotW-16-Acceleration

And here is how I shot it:


This drill doesn't really work on my specific weaknesses, I think---matter of fact, it may make them worse. To increase speed, one of the things that happened was that I stopped worrying about the sights so much, and relied on my (fairly good) body index to put the gun on target. As such, this trained me to do that MORE---and I have the opposite problem. I "use the force" enough as it is, and I need training to focus on those sights more.

That being said, it DID show up my wildly inconsistent split times---0.32 to 0.18? Granted, it was cold out, and my hands just freeze up---but nonetheless, my trigger control for splits needs work. Multi-shot drills needed.

Perhaps the most useful thing this drill showed me occurred when I was watching the video. When I shoot, of course the recoil changes my posture slightly. However, if you watch the 2-shot and 3-shot sections and watch my hip and shoulder level, you can see that as I push more shots, I hunch my shoulders and straighten my arms (which is unnecessary, and actually lowers the level of recoil control and thus aiming ability) and ALSO overall my stance raises upward.

Which is really bad, because not only does that make recoil control (and followup aiming) worse, it also means that any movement that may need to occur after will be slower due to the need to drop my weight again.

I'm a martial artist---I shouldn't be screwing up like that. Apparently, time for some 3-shot drills with movement to fix my aiming platform.

Glad I started doing this again---lots to fix.