Posted by Abhinav Bindra on July 21, 2001 at 11:09:01:
any ways how i
could improve my follow thru. i generally have a problem in stability at time of
release.
thanks
abhinav
Posted by Alexey on July 27, 2001 at 01:54:20:
Dear Abhinav,
The
problem of stability at time of release is not necessarily just sighting and
pulling. It's often a grip problem, which in turn could be induced by a stance
problem. Say, if you are not quite comfortable at the shoulder, the problem can
relay itself down to your trigger finger, and you none the wiser. One thing
more: if you experience the problem at rapid fire, you'd better suspend it
entirely until you clear it safely at precision fire.
Posted by Alexey on July 27, 2001 at 02:04:49: Oh and there is nothing like
dry firing, how could I have forgotten... Best regards, Alexey Posted by STL
William on July 22, 2001 at 13:20:30:
If I'm responding to the person I
think I'm responding to I'm honored and hope I can be of some help to
you.
This is a much debated topic and I think that the whole key lies in an
unconscious shot execution. Which I don't even know that at your level if it is
even possible all the time. I have had the problem that you are experiencing
(and still do), I feel that the problem stems from the fact that you are using
all of you concentration and focus on holding a perfect sight picture and when
you go to execute the shot, you are switching your concentration from holding
still to pulling the trigger. These are two entirely different operations and no
matter how hard we try we cannot do two things at once. In many instances we may
think that we are doing two things at once, but in fact our mind is merely
switching back and forth the concentration on the actions so fast that we cannot
detect that we are really only doing one thing at a time. Because we cannot do
multiple things at the exact same time it is crucial that we make the transition
from one action to the other as fast as possible. Since we all know that the
unconcious mind is many times faster than the conscious mind we must develop an
unconscious trigger pull so that when it is time to pull the trigger the trigger
will just "go off" as some people put it or at least it will get pulled closer
to the actual time that your mind determines that the shot is ready for
execution. The analogy that I use a lot is that when you put your hand on a
stove you don't have to think about pulling it off, you just do it. So you need
to be able to see a ten and just pull it instantaneously.
Anyway I'm
digressing into beginner terms so I'll just stop. But the problem seems to me to
be that the time between switching the actions of holding and pulling the
trigger is taking to long and while we can never eliminate the change over
between the two we can work to minimalism it by making it an unconscious
decision.
So, like I'm sure you have heard many times, the shot process
needs to be an unconscious process and this is just another example of why it
needs to be unconscious.
Posted by Rod Sorenson on July 22, 2001 at 10:00:35:
Dear Abhinav,
Controlling the sights is the constant battle that we all fight. We are all
making constant corrections in the position of the pistol because of the
positions of our muscles and external factors such as the wind. I try to think
in terms of controlling the pistol after the shot until the sights are aligned
for the next shot. That is when I consider the follow through complete. I think
that the shot is just another external disturbance in my control of the pistol
and I continue to exert control until I have regained the proper sight
alignment. This way I have a planned action that fills the time after the shot,
so that the next action after the shot is not to lower the pistol.
I hope my
opinion is helpful to you.
Rod Sorenson
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