Chris Rhines
Member
From an old edition of Nygord's Notes:
"One important aspect not commonly recognized is to schedule uninterupted time and concentrate on a single element. New studies show that if you try to learn more than one thing in a day, your learning efficiency goes down! It seems that it takes the mind/body combo some significant time to integrate what it is trying to learn. So, when you "train", pick one element of the technique, focus on it, work to perform it perfectly and don't try to do anything else in that session."
I used to have a little routine for practical pistol dryfire that I would do in the evenings; some draws, some one-hand and weak-hand stuff, et cetera. After reading the above essay, I decided to change my training around a bit, and started focusing on a single aspect of shooting every night. Mondays I work on draw speed, Tuesdays on natural aim point, so on, so forth.
This past week, in fact, I've been working on my draw times exclusively - breaking down my draw into components, videotaping my draw to find wasted movement, that kind of stuff. I decided to focus on nothing but draw speed for a solid week. Result - I'm at 1.2- and 1.3-sec draws at seven yards, down from 1.6-1.8 a week ago.
So, what's y'alls take on this? Good advice or wrong-headed?
- Chris
"One important aspect not commonly recognized is to schedule uninterupted time and concentrate on a single element. New studies show that if you try to learn more than one thing in a day, your learning efficiency goes down! It seems that it takes the mind/body combo some significant time to integrate what it is trying to learn. So, when you "train", pick one element of the technique, focus on it, work to perform it perfectly and don't try to do anything else in that session."
I used to have a little routine for practical pistol dryfire that I would do in the evenings; some draws, some one-hand and weak-hand stuff, et cetera. After reading the above essay, I decided to change my training around a bit, and started focusing on a single aspect of shooting every night. Mondays I work on draw speed, Tuesdays on natural aim point, so on, so forth.
This past week, in fact, I've been working on my draw times exclusively - breaking down my draw into components, videotaping my draw to find wasted movement, that kind of stuff. I decided to focus on nothing but draw speed for a solid week. Result - I'm at 1.2- and 1.3-sec draws at seven yards, down from 1.6-1.8 a week ago.
So, what's y'alls take on this? Good advice or wrong-headed?
- Chris