IPSC Quick Tips - Stage Tips #2 (E16)
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
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There are a lot of things you must consider when analyzing a stage and developing your Stage Plan. The Rules of Thumb & Stage Tips video episodes will provide you with information / factors that you should consider while analyzing stages in the development of your Stage Plan.
It takes a lot of understanding of IPSC shooting and experience before you become proficient at analyzing stages and developing efficient and effective Stage Plans. There are some Rules of Thumb, tips and shooting techniques that I can provide you and that you may wish to consider while analyzing a stage and developing your Stage Plan. Remember, Rules of Thumb are not hard and fast rules but they have merit for consideration and may provide you with an advantage if used / considered while shooting a stage. As well, knowing and considering Rules of Thumb, other tips and shooting techniques is a great way to getting your thought process flowing as you start your stage analysis. You need to ask yourself questions like....
What if I start on the Left, Right, Front or Back? What may those start locations mean in terms of advantages I can gain considering the knowledge I have of Rules of Thumb, other tips and shooting techniques?
You need factors to consider while analyzing a stage as these factors will help you breakdown the stage and provide you potential insight to what the best plan of action (Stage Plan) is considering your skill level, your comfort zone and experience.
In this video, I will discuss the following:
- Entering and exiting a shooting position; and
- Target engagement sequence.
I use shooting through ports in order to better illustrate the importance and principles of entering and existing shooting positions in regards to the necessity of proper target engagement sequence. Remember that there may be other reasons that may make a Rule of Thumb not applicable in a particular situation. Of course, as you gain experience, you will be in a better position to determine what Rules of Thumb, other tips and shooting techniques apply to a particular stages. So, here are a few of the Thumbs of Rules that come out in this video:
- If you are moving into a shooting position moving Left to Right, the target engagement sequence should be right to left (engaging the most right-hand target and working your way to the left);
- If you are moving into a shooting position from Right to Left, the target sequence should be Left to Right:
- It is far easier to start shooting slow and then speed up than start shooting fast and then slowdown;
The last Rule of Thumb can be specifically be related to shooting a target array which has a Far distant target, a Mid-range target and a Close-in target. In this type of target array, the Rule of Thumb would be to shoot the far distant target first (shooting slowly as more concentration is required when shooting far targets and ensuring good hits), then engage the Mid-range target (shooting faster) and finish with the Close-in target (fastest shooting) all the while speeding up your shooting with each target as your engagements become closer.
Figure out what works for you. You need to shoot the way things work best for you. Feel comfortable when executing a technique as that will likely result in you being smooth and fast but you need to try out different methods, call them Rules of Thumb or whatever you like... You need try different techniques and understand why a specific technique works better for you. Understanding the "why" will help you improve your shooting performance. Try new techniques / tactics / rules of thumb / tips. Don't just stick with what you know and are comfortable with. When trying something new, don't try it for the first time during a match, practice the technique first many times and get comfortable with the technique first before using it in a match. Don't expect to be proficient executing a new technique after one practice session. It takes time to perfect a new technique especially when you are trying to change what you were doing before. Be patient and practice a new technique slowly and correctly.
Hope these Rules of Thumb and tips come in handy.
Music is Destructoid by MK2. Thanks for the great sound track.
Your quick tips series it’s helping me a lot, I’m an IPSC member from México region and next weekend is my first IPSC match, it happens to be the first IPSC nationals in Mexico so the best shooters will be there, so ridiculously nervous, my first goal is definitely no to get Dq’d. Just subscribed, I need to keep Watching the rest of the videos.
Great to hear that my videos have been helpful to you!! Thank you for your positive feedback on my videos. So, how did your first match go? Being nervous is normally and healthy. What Division do you compete in? What gun are you using? Thanks for subscribing!! John
Shooter's Inc I’m in production division, I use a Glock 25 in .380 acp, civilians in México can not own anything bigger than that on pistol. The match was great, 1st national match and they set the bar really high for next years hosting club. I had two goals, not to get DQ’d and finish on the top half, accomplished both of them fortunately, ended 28th place from sixty, I feel pretty good about it, my first stage was a disaster, very nervous that my grip was so hard that pushed the magazine released button and there it goes the magazine all the way to the floor, but once I did the 3rd stage I started to get confident and enjoyed the rest of the 11 stages, a very nice experience, will be training hard for the next match, I applied your tip on shooting from the table and it went very well, transitions was also I very well lesson learned. Thank you!
@@jormen23 That is great news. It does feel good to get that very first BIG match successfully shoot. Well done to you on a successful match. We all start somewhere. I think my first National match 2011, I finished 36th of 96 competitors in Standard Division. I finished 10th in the 2017 Canadian Nationals. I worked hard towards my goal. Work hard and you will develop your skills well and meet you goals!! Dry Fire Practice is a great way to develop your skills and techniques. Try to do Dry Fire Practice 3 times a week for 20-30 mins each time. That will help you. Practice the draw with your hands in direct positions, static speed reloads and then some moving speed reloads, table starts (loaded and unloaded), also practice the draw with an unloaded gun so that you must draw and load. This is a good start for your dry fire practice routine.
I am aware of the restrictions in Mexico as I had a friend who lived there for many years and he was an IPSC shooters. He returned to Canada only a couple of years ago.
Once again, congratulations on your successful first National match.
John good information I see the tips will shave some time off for a better score great video. What do you think about optics on a match pistol?
+Lou Flores Yes, executing techniques smoothly / entering and existing shooting positions quickly (efficiently and effectively) due to proper target engagement sequence can truly improve your times on stages! There is a lot to think about when it comes to analyzing a stage and applying economy of movement principles, rules of thumb, understanding advantages you can gain simply by deciding to move left to right as a right handed shooter as an example and so on. At some point, I will likely make a 2 to 3 part video on discussing the analysis of a stage using a sample stage and talk through my analysis. It won't be perfect but it will provide even more understanding of thing we need to consider in the greater context of an entire stage. That will be an serious undertaking for a video due to the complexity of the subject. In the meantime, I'm hoping that my Stage Tips episodes will provide good food for thought....factors to consider when analyzing stages and developing Stage Plans.
Optics on a match pistol...well, I now own a Tanfoglio Gold Custom Eric 2007 in 9mm which is an open gun. I have a CMore mounted sideways on it. I may start using it in some of my videos. I'm not completely used to looking for a red dot instead of iron sights on a pistol yet but the reason I mounted the CMore vertically rather than horizontally is so I can raise the Gold Custom to the same height as I do my iron sight pistols. I wish I could post a picture of my gun in the comments section. Hopefully, you understand what I'm getting at. With the Cmore mounted on the pistol using a side mount, the objective of the CMore now sits right on top of the slide rather than a half inch or more above the slide. It make the aiming of the pistol more like I was using iron sights in terms of how high I must raise the pistol in order to look through the CMore objective to see the red dot. I have never use a slide mounted optic on a pistol meaning the optic is directly mounted to the slide and moves with the slide during recoil. The CMore is mounted to the frame of the pistol with the use of a frame mount. Therefore, the CMore is stationary. I know some guys who have used slide mounted red dot optics. Most of the guys said that their optics were taking a beating due to the recoil. Now, they may not have been using the best optics so that may have been part of the problem. Are you thinking about mounting an optic on a match pistol? What type of pistol and type of optic are you considering?
+Shooter's Inc John I was thinking a 1911 platform in 9mm or a CZ in 9mm with a (optic optional ) I like the CMore and I do think it is best on a side mount I don't care for the optic mounted on the slide. I shot a friends 1911 in 38 super it shot nice but not a very common round not sure of the power factor. Most guys down here shoot 9mm some 40 cal. very few in 45 acp. and 38 super. I currently shoot a Glock 17 gen3 9mm but I am not crazy about using it in competition.
In terms of cost 9mm open gun is the way to go. You can get 9mm brass just about anywhere. .38 Super is expensive and hard to find. As for .40 and .45 for an open gun, you use lots of powder to get the pressures you would need for the comps to work effective and efficiently. Doesn't make sense in my mind for to have a .40 or .45 open gun but then there are people who perfect those calibers. I have 1911s in .40 and .45 but I am interested in getting a 1911 in 9mm. I would say a CMore is the way to go for an optic.
+Shooter's Inc John thank you for your help I like 9mm and that is the main caliber I shoot the division or class I was think about is Carry Optics division.
Hmmm, I'll have to think about this a bit...Carry Optics Division....USPSA just announce this a little while back or not so far back :-)
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