Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Dry Fire Drills

Jake Di Vita is a Grand Master out of Fenton, Michigan - he's also a major contributor over on the Benoverse. Jake has been been posting a "dryfire WOD" (WOD = Workout Of the Day) on his blog. If you need some ideas or inspiration for dry fire practice, check out Jake's blog and hook up on the WODs. You can post your par times to the comments as a way of getting involved and providing a little motivation to yourself - and to everyone else who's playing along.

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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Into the Breach...

Still wondering how fitness is important to this shooting sport? At the 2008 Area 1 Championship, we got a solid demonstration of why having a broad, general, inclusive fitness program is an important part of any well rounded shooting program.

Stage designer Chuck Anderson threw us a curve ball on stage 9 in the form of a Breaching Technologies, Inc. Ram Breaching Door. Check out the vid - a few comments follow on the DR Performance Shooting main site...

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Match Report: 2008 Area 1 Championship

Held in late June, near Portland, OR, the 2008 Area 1 Championship was hot... damn hot... and full of the types of stages that really demanded you exercise the "Diligentia" aspect of the sport (that's accuracy, of course).

Several folks asked about adding in some video commentary and descriptions of the stages, so that they could what in the heck I'm shooting at in the videos - I tried to that here. If you like it - or don't - let me know ;) Also, I didn't shoot video of Stage 8, which was the standards. Its kind of a visually boring stage, so hopefully you're not really missing anything... Anyhow - here's the vid, and commentary is on the DR Performance Shooting main site!

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