Watching Matt Burkett’s DVD Volume 4 How to Shoot Faster.
It’s a segment on cadence. The drill they’re using is 3 targets at however many yards (probably 7 to 10), 2 shots on each. Matt is stressing the importance of a steady cadence. That is, it shouldn’t sound like: bangbang–pausetransition–bangbang–pausetransition–bangbang. It should sound like bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang. It’s a combination of both slowing down your splits (time between shots on target) and speeding up your transitions (time between shots on different targets), but the point of the drill is getting people to speed up their transitions because we tend to focus so much on improving our splits and not our transitions.
But what hit me was hearing Matt do the math on how important transition time is when it comes to match competition. What follows is a rough transcription:
The US Nationals… let’s rough it out with like 400 rounds, so it would be 200 targets, 2 rounds on each.Well there’s 100 splits and 100 target transitions then. Big chunks of time there. If you have a tenth of a second or two-tenths of a second per target transition, at the end of the match you’re 10 seconds behind somebody else right off the bat. You’re really behind.
Matt was talking off the top of his head, so you can see the math is a little loose, but the point remains.
Karl’s pointed this out to me before. It’s hearing the math that stood out to me.
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