USPSA Paul Bunyan July 2015 - Loke Open Division, 2nd Place
Shot a fun match today at Paul Bunyan. They have one of the best bays that have lots of long courses which are my fav. Came in 2nd place behind TimR AS USUAL but it's all my fault coz of mikes on 4 of the stages.
Here's a compressed match video from my most recent match in Renton. 6 Stages within 50 seconds. Enjoy!
Music used: Clockworx by Rataxes https://www.jamendo.com/track/1018346/clockworx
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcGuRWZ9Leo
The Inland Empire Sectional match has always been one of the fun one day matches that I've attended. It's a level II sanctioned match organized by the Eastern Washington Practical Shooting Association (EWPSA.org) it's a very technical 8 stage match (+ chrono) that is put up in a fabulous range.
They also have a superb Junior shooting program run by the Practical Edge instructors which have yielded amazing young talent, to my chagrin coz they're so much faster than I am :) Lots of future World Champions in the making. Find out more : http://jrteam.practicaledgeshooting.com
As for my shooting, who cares.. I passed chrono and had a great time!
Music used: New Trance Edition by DJ Alike https://www.jamendo.com/en/track/1026396/dj-alike.new-trance-edition
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImXYnjz7-Zw
Flew down to St. George, Utah this past weekend to shoot the 2017 Berry's Steel Open Championship. It's a hybrid match with three major disciplines combined. Steel Challenge, Dynamic or Time plus/Tuesday Night Steel and Scramble or Par-time/proam style courses.
Came in 9th overall Open division and had a great time shooting this all steel match. Utah was beautiful and the range was fantastic. Looking forward to returning to St. George to shoot the Area 1 Championships in a month.
Music used: Clockworx by Rataxes https://www.jamendo.com/track/1018346/clockworx
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6OXhhnswEs
This was a video clip of ArcAttack (thanks Sanders) and their Tesla Coil rock show at Maker Faire Bay Area 2012. I've also included a short slow-motion clip of the show towards the end of the video. I shot that using my Casio Exlim FH100 in 240fps.
http://www.makerfaire.com
http://www.arcattack.com
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbJN-PH1-Zw
Today's match is Renton Fish and Game Club's first USPSA match of the 2012 season, and weather was bizarre. It started out nice and nippy, then rain, then a huge snow storm dumped about an inch of snow on us. After that the sun came out and melted everything. It's like having three seasons in a day. The folks in Melbourne, Australia would be used to this.
anyway, shot mediocre-ly. Nothing to shout about, came in 4th overall.
Here's a quick review of my performance.
Stage 1: Had a few stupid mistakes for instance not loading to capacity. I thought I had 29 in my magazine which I usually do, but somehow the magazine had only 28 (i must have stripped one off from the previous stage to load to capacity). So I started the stage with my gun loaded to 28+1 when the stage required 30 rounds. The last "CLICK" was so loud it hurt :)
Stage 2: Another brain fart stage, it started out pretty good until I reached the 2nd position and my foot fell out of the shooting area when I took the two shots (you can't see it in the video but you see me cursing and taking another shot at the target) which netted me two procedurals. after that, it's down hill, forgot the array of targets down range, and took me a good 3 seconds to shift my momentum back to the left and acquire my dot.
Stage 3: This was pretty straight forward, not much I can say except I need to draw the gun quicker and move smoother. I should have shot the entire stage moving. I was four seconds slower than the stage winner.
Stage 4: Could have been awesome if I didn't take one extra shot in the middle array causing me to have to reload before the final array. That's at least 1.5-2secs added onto my time. My raw time on that stage was almost the fastest in the match (11.71 vs 11.37), would have won the stage if I didn't have to reload.
Stage 5: Again, I should be moving all the time. At the last array, because of the weird angle, I took a while to find my dot. that took at good second out of my time. The stage winner's time was 8.07 and mine was 9.36.
Stage 6: I thought I shot this stage pretty well, until I saw the time. I was most accurate only dropping 3 points yet I lost because the stage winner's time was 13.61 and mine was 17.73. I took a lot more time shooting accurately than I should. Here's a great example where speed trumps accuracy (if you don't have a Delta or a Miss).
Stage 7: Classic classifier. the El Presidente. I had fastest raw time 5.67 but very inaccurate. Also, if I didn't have a trigger freeze in the 2nd last target, I would have shaved at least half a sec. I think this was a problem with grip. I remember the gun jumping around a lot during the 2nd run. Also, transition pulse is not effective. it should be Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop Pop.. instead of Poppop... Poppop
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsNUL25yorM
What can I say. It was raining for hours and we shot till almost 5pm! We were all soaked, tired and freezing. I couldn't feel my hands and for most of the stages, I couldn't even feel my trigger. Probably should have stopped for safety reasons. The stages were fantastic, the weather was not.
Music used: Derelict Ship by Per Kiilstofte https://machinimasound.com/music/derelict-ship/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGISCHyzMTo