Injured and not practicing...

So, in this month before I go down to Kansas for the Aim Fast, Hit Fast class, I had planned on dryfiring almost every night, working my trigger control, draw, and slidelock reload.

Also, live fire once or twice a week, weather permitting. Some bullseye work (boring! but necessary for me, obviously), some FAST drills, some precision work off the drop, and definitely some SHO and WHO work.

And what happens? I get a shoulder injury teaching a CQT class last Saturday. [sigh] Couldn't shoot the Steel Challenge match the next day, because I couldn't raise my arm up to mid-height without wanting to scream.

As such, I haven't been able to get to the range at all, and haven't been able to do much in the way of dryfire practice. I did a little WHO work, just for trigger control practice, but pretty much ANY upper-body movement pulled my shoulder, and was just incredibly painful.

Grrrrrr....it is doing better now, after a week, so I'm going to (carefully!) try to get to the range tomorrow afternoon and shoot a little. Nothing too strenuous, nothing too fast. Might try a FAST drill, but only to shoot it relaxed just to see what happens.

Can't afford to have this shoulder screwed up---too much shooting to do!

One of the things I am doing in the meantime is working on some solid practice plans to get the most out of the range time I AM able to do. For me, it really all comes down to trigger control---my stance is okay, my transitions, draws, and reloads are okay (obviously each can be better, but they aren't nearly as high on the priority list)--but my trigger control affects everything else, and it is inconsistent. Highly so. So, trigger control in its various aspects is the main point.

With that focus, training trigger control on long distances, low% targets at close range, shots after transitions, splits, shots after draws---if I design it right, gets me good practice on the other things, too.

So---time to design good practice plans to maximize effectiveness for the next month.