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Hi. Rob mentioned some good ideas (as per usual!). Dryfiring is one of the best sport specific physical training that a shooter can do. Have your son raise and hold for 10s, watching the front sight. After 10s, let him break the shot. You can have him hold on a dot or on a line, watching for movemen...

Usually this problem happens when the recoil spring (part 713) and the back shock absorber (part 717) are getting tired. We recommend the replacement every two years or 7500 - 10000 round. Hi. It looks like that was the issue. I pulled the recoil spring out for the malfunctioning pistol and compare...

My Pardini SP has developed a bad habit of failing to eject the third round. The casing is almost always caught 90 degrees to the bore with the 4th round jammed partially out of the mag. It happens in precision, timed and rapid, using Lapua SKS. At first I thought it was just the magazine. Now I've ...

Hi Jab. Have someone watch you, and see where the wobble is originating from. Is it the body sway along the line of fire? Is the whole arm moving up and down from the shoulder? Is the movement coming from the wrist breaking up/down? Or, is the movement stemming from variations in grip pressure fromt...

Thanks, Greg. :-) There is a wide gap, but that doesn't mean that we can't apply the theory in practice. I think that is a problem within our sport. We don't avail ourselves to readily available resources within the sport sciences. There is some great research, specific to shooting, about introducin...

Antispar; why are you keeping score in training? Don't you find it counterproductive to kep score given that it provides a false sense of performance expectation for match results? Given that training does not provide the mental pressures that you might get in an actual match? Hi Greg. I'd like to ...

Then there's the mathematic side of it: If you're able to "control" accuracy within say, the nine ring, then tens will occur for "statistical" reasons. So your score will be a bit better than 540. Flinches and snatches that cause sevens or worse, can only be "compensated st...

Sorry: forgot to discuss deliberate practice. I would suggest that anyone interested in more depth, seek out K. Anders Ericsson paper "The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance", written in 1993. His work has driven research ever since. The paper is 44 pages ...

Hi, Russ. First off, thanks for the vote of confidence. ;-) I think that most serious coaches and athletes will want something more in depth than a generalist book like Outliers. While it defines the concept in a popular way, it lacks meat. I would suggest that anyone interested in more depth, seek ...

Hi Russ. Rob is quite a good fellow, Russ. He's a pistol coach for Ireland, coaching recently at the European Airgun Championships. He's been at it for quite some time and I wouldn't be surprised if he's coaching at the London World Cup right now. I've always found him to be knowledgable coach and a...

I may have missed it in the above but one additional factor that comes into play when you grip hard is that the trigger finger is less able to move independantly. So not only is the ease of movement affected but also on moving the trigger finger, so you will move the other fingers and tendons. I al...

Hi. Here's a few thoughts. Releasing a decent shot is predicated upon isolating finger movement to only occur with your trigger finger. That is to say, when you apply trigger pressure, ONLY your trigger finger moves. Unfortunately, that isn't the way that your hand and fingers are built. Fingers are...

I'd like to expand the discussion of shot plans to look at performance routines, specifically pre-performance routines. Research and sports use various terms: plan, strategy, protocol, procedure, technique, ritual or “a pre-shot routine”. The goal of routine is to facilitate learning, performance, a...

Lou Anderson has mentioned that the results will be available around 9pm EST. With 200 competitors, you want to make sure they're right.

It was good meeting you, Russ. Next time, we should spend some time and talk more.

Regards,
Patrick

Hi. About 100 rounds through a gun and it really isn't broken in. It may also have crud in it from shipping, so make sure that it has had a complete inspection, cleaning and oiling before you go any further. When I get a new gun (several Pardini SPs in the house), I get some higher velocity rounds (...

Hi folks. Back from the World Military Games in Brazil. Spent the weekend watching the Canadian Modern Pentahlon Championship, specifically the Combined Event, with Richard, and he never mentioned this question. What a bum! When you look at these exercises ( http://www.targetshooting.ca/train_genex....

I noticed a few times over the course of today, from a few different unfiltered networks, that issf-sports.org was giving a "Service Unavailable" message when I tried visiting the site.

Anybody know what's up? Did they miss a payment? ;-)

Patrick

So I believe I am looking to make up for that with compensations in the grip and posture. I believe I have found out a few good things about posture for the shot. I am not sure I am on the right track in what I am doing from the shoulder out to the gun. Maybe I should topic this "rebuilding th...

Hi. I'm working with our provincial (and to some extent national) pentathlon organization, specifically developing a means to performed the combined run/shoot event. While working on this, I've had the pleasure of hearing the rationale for the laser and see what it looks like (sorry: photos only). I...

(I meant to get this posted last week, but I lost my connectivity in the airport.) There is a lot of talk around stability and its importance for shooters. I recall one coach who would observe athletes and say "You have some body sway." After that cryptic statement, he had nothing to offer...