IPSC Quicks Tips - Drills Training Session #2 (E12)

Don't forget to LIKE, COMMENT and SUBSCRIBE! Thanks!! Here are a few more training ideas for range practice. This video is taken during one of my actual training sessions as are other training session videos. Keeping your training props simply gives you more time to shoot and less time setting up. In this training session, I was working on my draw, sight picture, sight alignment, recoil control, trigger control, double taps, shooting cadence, strong and weak-hand shooting. I try not to train at full speed as I am concentrating at getting my movement correct and so on. Therefore, I do my best to train at around 75% of my regular speed. At times, I do have to remind myself to slow down and you should do the same as well. I usually try the various drills at full speed near the end of each drill to give me the feel of what is like at speed and to assess how I'm progressing. The 5 drills that I had in this training session were a nice mix of skills and techniques along with some fast and slower shooting to keep my interest level up. I did do some weak-hand shooting something that we all need to do more of but hate it. Why do we hate it because we aren't good at it and its boring. Therefore, throw in weak-hand in between two fun drills. Shooting weak-hand slows things down for you as well especially if you are a shooter who has a problem slowing down while practicing!! There is nothing complicated about these drills. They are easy drills to setup and conduct. They help work on the basic skills and techniques along with a few advance ones such as working on cadence. Cadence was one of the main things I focused on during this range session. Most of us tend to engage target arrays with double taps with distinct breaks (time lag) between targets as we transition from one target to the next. This technique of engaging the targets isn't a smooth one for a couple of reasons: doubling tapping which means you only had a sight picture / sight alignment for the first round and then a rapid transition to the next target followed by a double tap again. The fast double tapping and transition movement tend not to be smooth and result in so so hits and maybe a fast time if you don't find yourself making up bad shoots. Eric Grauffel continually reinforced the fact that he did not want to see us double tap as he wanted us to have a sight picture / alignment for each shot so that our shooting was accurate. He insists that all his students shoot nothing but Alphas...."shoot no faster than what will allow you to get Alphas". This is excellent advice for a number of reasons and the main reason is that Accuracy is primacy not speed. Why? To gain speed, you MUST give up something. That "something" that you must give up is ACCURACY!! The more accurate you are, the more accuracy you have to give up for speed without your overall performance suffering but actually increasing. The less accurate you are, the less accuracy you have to give up and your overall performance will suffer faster as you increase your speed. I hope I made that point clear. One way to increase your overall performance in terms of hits and speed is to develop a cadence in your shooting as you transition from target to target. Therefore, you are giving yourself time to get a sight picture and get sight alignment for each shot, smooth out your transition movement across the target array which gives you time to setup on the next target and so on all the while shooting and transitioning smoothly. The end result is excellent hits with a very decent time increasing your overall performance. Of course, it take practice to achieve a good regular and consistent cadence. Cadence doesn't equal slow shooting. It's fast shooting and becomes faster and more accurate as you develop you skills and techniques. Watch and listen to Eric Grauffel's shooting. He shoots fast but he does have a cadence. His cadence is simply so much faster than ours as average shooters compared to him. Therefore, this training session of mine had a focus of accuracy and cadence. I also made sure that I did some strong and wreak-hand which is a must. Sometimes the best way to ensure you do weak hand is to have it as part of a drill like in my Training Session #1 video where I do a Table Pickup Drill which incorporates the technique of transferring the gun from free-style, to strong-hand to weak-hand and then back to strong-hand to free-style. This is a fun drill and helps you develop a series of skills and techniques. Music is Destructoid by MK2. Thanks for the great soundtrack!