Absolutely agree on both points Sean. We all see the world through our personal
filters and need to keep in mind the thought process of the students. For the
most part, they have only seen "action shooting" on TV or at the local range
and thought "wow, that looks like fun. I wish *I* could do that. But that is
beyond me. I would just embarrass myself if I tried."
My view of the course is to lower the barrier to USPSA type shooting and make
them feel comfortable with it. KISS principle.
The level of involvement that they decide that they can give will be different
for each one, but of course we want to cultivate more Seans, more Peters, more
Shanes, and Steves, and Daves.
Let's keep positive, upbeat, and most of all simple and clear.
XO.
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 09:32:17 -0500
Subject: [hsa] Re: Intro to USPSA roll call
From: seanboy1835@xxxxxxxxx
To: hsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Something else I wanted to bring up was this
I don't don't know who will be speaking about the shooting techniques and
stage breakdown sections but these need to be based on new shooter skill set.
Focus needs to be on safety, 180, trigger outside the finger guard, movement
while keeping the gun down range and not at your feet. There's no need to get
into techniques that will produce faster stage times.
The other thing is what do we want to get out of these students? Do we want
somebody that shoots two or three club matches a year? I would rather get two
or three people that turn into what I have become. How do we teach people to
step up and help run matches?
