"If you want to fly with the Banshees, you have to go where the Banshees are! HOOAH!"
"Jake Sully will go first!"
"SooOuLow, SooOuLow, Jake!"
"You must fly now, flying seals the bond."
Saturday at the Camp blocker practice, Dry Glucher broke through the .40 barrier and was consistently shooting in the .39s. Hi Strung broke the .35 barrier and reached down into the .34s. There is no reason that they can't be consistently in the high 3s and low 3s respectively, shooting with 80% accuracy. All they have to do is seal the bond. They have to make that draw their own and never go back.
They do that by finalizes that draw as their draw. Blocker targets have nothing to do with it. The clock has nothing to do with it.
Dry Gulcher probably has the easier task. I think it will be easier for him to bond with that draw. He simply has a .39 draw when freed from thinking about it. To bond with it, he needs to go the wall to measure and calculate his 6 feet target height. Once he has his target height, he draws two lines one 3 inches above the target height and one 3 inches below the target height. Then fly! Shoot from 6 feet. Maybe 50 rounds. No light! No time! Time is irrelevant! Can't miss! He doesn't have to worry about where he hits. His body and subconscious will walk the hits into the target zone. What he would be doing is finalizing his draw. Bonding with it while chunking data. Putting those small adjustments to walk the hits to the light into his subconscious at .39 speed. He will get faster.
Once he has bonded with that .39 draw, never ever look back. Never ever slow down. I don't care if he misses 30 in a row. The draw is good. His fastest draw will be his most accurate draw. Misses are an alignment problem not a draw problem.
Hi Strung's task is a more difficult one. He just has too many draws. I don't know which he shot when he was hitting those .34s, but he too must fly with one draw. To be constantly changing takes one into the agony of the mind. Any thought is bad.
I hope these gunslinger will not be offended by my analysis but I see so much potential. I would prefer that they stay where they are because then I have a chance against them. Grailfever is a terrible and limiting disease. The myth that you have to slow down to hit accounts for more loses than wins. Bond with that draw, then never worry about hitting or time. Hits and time will take care of themselves. Your job, if you accept it, is alignment and mental toughness.
"SooOuLow, SooOuLow......You must fly now, flying seals the bond."
Monday, February 13, 2017
Sunday, February 5, 2017
Just Walk'en!
A couple of weeks ago I took Niobrara (6), Lil James (8), and Dismal River Kid (9) to the Camp for some training on mental toughness. We were going to work on specifically walking the hits to the light. I was dishearten because the training session was overwhelmed by kidness, the kids being distracted by the mic system and mud puddles.
Saturday I took Dismal to the Camp Jackpot shoot because he is moving to Nebraska and it was the last chance I had to shoot with him. I got to hand judge his third match. His first shot was right and high 18 inches. He second shot was on the plate. His third, fourth and fifth shots were within 1 inch of the light. After winning, he turns and says to me, "I was trying to hit the light!" Guess he was listening more than I had thought.
The next match I got to hand judge was against Hell on Wheels. HOW hits the first two shots. Dismal misses the first shot then walks the hits to the light on the next four shots. The match ends with HOW being confused as to how he could have lost, looking at the target he has two hits, Dismal has four, score should be 2-2. No, you miss three against an Alleluia shooter, you lose. Dismal shot 80%, HOW shot 40%. Speed was irrelevant.
Dismal and HOW met again in the 7th round. Winner goes to the shot offs, loser is out. This time HOW was on target, hitting 75%.
The Gunfighter Ratings for these three matches are interesting. Dismal's speed factor is .185, his accuracy factor is .80, his mental toughness is .04, giving him a gunfighter rating of 1.025. That rating would put him in the top 10% of our shooters. HOW's rating in the first match is speed .62, accuracy .4, mental toughness -.02, for a combined 1.0. For the two matches HOW was speed .62, accuracy .55, mental toughness -.02, for a gunfighter rating of 1.15. Pretty evenly matched gunslingers with a 1-1 match record between them.
So much for Dismal. The point of this post is that to be a competitive shooter you need to learn to walk the hits to the light. First shot is a guess, second shot should be on the plate, and each shot thereafter should be closer to the light. Alleluia shooters should shoot no worst than 66% at the Camp. That big wall is a tremendous advantage for us. Since our training leads us to the light the worst we should shoot is 2 out of 3 or 66% if our opponent is faster and hitting 100%. Most matches your opponent will be hitting less. At Pioneer only 10% of the shooters hit better than 60% and of those only 3% were quick.
Walk the hits to the light. "Aim small, miss small" Oh, we don't aim. Chunk that data, learn to make small adjustments.
Saturday I took Dismal to the Camp Jackpot shoot because he is moving to Nebraska and it was the last chance I had to shoot with him. I got to hand judge his third match. His first shot was right and high 18 inches. He second shot was on the plate. His third, fourth and fifth shots were within 1 inch of the light. After winning, he turns and says to me, "I was trying to hit the light!" Guess he was listening more than I had thought.
The next match I got to hand judge was against Hell on Wheels. HOW hits the first two shots. Dismal misses the first shot then walks the hits to the light on the next four shots. The match ends with HOW being confused as to how he could have lost, looking at the target he has two hits, Dismal has four, score should be 2-2. No, you miss three against an Alleluia shooter, you lose. Dismal shot 80%, HOW shot 40%. Speed was irrelevant.
Dismal and HOW met again in the 7th round. Winner goes to the shot offs, loser is out. This time HOW was on target, hitting 75%.
The Gunfighter Ratings for these three matches are interesting. Dismal's speed factor is .185, his accuracy factor is .80, his mental toughness is .04, giving him a gunfighter rating of 1.025. That rating would put him in the top 10% of our shooters. HOW's rating in the first match is speed .62, accuracy .4, mental toughness -.02, for a combined 1.0. For the two matches HOW was speed .62, accuracy .55, mental toughness -.02, for a gunfighter rating of 1.15. Pretty evenly matched gunslingers with a 1-1 match record between them.
So much for Dismal. The point of this post is that to be a competitive shooter you need to learn to walk the hits to the light. First shot is a guess, second shot should be on the plate, and each shot thereafter should be closer to the light. Alleluia shooters should shoot no worst than 66% at the Camp. That big wall is a tremendous advantage for us. Since our training leads us to the light the worst we should shoot is 2 out of 3 or 66% if our opponent is faster and hitting 100%. Most matches your opponent will be hitting less. At Pioneer only 10% of the shooters hit better than 60% and of those only 3% were quick.
Walk the hits to the light. "Aim small, miss small" Oh, we don't aim. Chunk that data, learn to make small adjustments.
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