Great Questions!!! When I state "Dry Fire" it can be either a physical rehearsal or a visualization rehearsal. For this stage my "Dry Fire" iterations were 50/50 Physical and Visualization reps. For your second question, my Strategy for figuring out these types of memory stages is no different with it being a Club or Major match. Basically put, I am getting to the range early enough to give myself time to figure out these kind of stages. If you are attending matches in a manner where the first time you are seeing the stage is when your squad gets to it during the match then you are doing it wrong. You should already have a Strategy Defined and Programmed BEFORE the match even starts, much less when your squad gets to the stage during the match.

Extremely grateful for the thoughtful answer!

@@granthmeekIf you aren’t allowed to visualize for whatever reason or you only get a walk through once. The best method is the simplest one. Don’t over complicate it but rather take the path that flows most naturally. It’s going to be the least mentally challenging allowing you to focus on moving quickly and accurately. Stay with me here. Personally last year I focused a lot on the shortest path or least overall movement. This was part of my development, stage planning. I struggled with stages that had odd numbers off shots per target or stages where shots needed to be done out of order for timing purposes and memory stages. Multiple times I was told by various high level shooters not to over complicate these stages. Of course I’m naive and I think I can save time doing it the mentally challenging way and what happens is my shooting suffers and I end up with mental pauses that my brain struggles to move on from because I’m already focusing on my plan intently. Matches aren’t won on one stage but rather the consistency you perform on all stages. You want to get better and you are going in the right direction already, but what you consider as practice this is when you challenge yourself, competitions are really a matter of performing consistently and no one wins that while performing at 100% of there capabilities because no one can accurately perform at there best consistently.

Te last stage plan was fun. When is mindless hosing not fun?

I am getting to the range early enough to give myself time to figure out these kind of stages. If you are attending matches in a manner where the first time you are seeing the stage is when your squad gets to it during the match then you are doing it wrong. You should already have a Strategy Defined and Programmed BEFORE the match even starts, much less when your squad gets to the stage during the match.

@@BigPandaPerformance you are correct. Thought about that after posting my remark.

On all of the stage runs I only dropped a few C's each time. Shooting Minor you can't donate a bunch of points by simply brown blasting. My goal is to always capture 90% - 95% of the available points. Even when rage blasting like I did on the last run for fun.

Yes it was!!!

I am getting to the range early enough to give myself time to figure out these kind of stages. If you are attending matches in a manner where the first time you are seeing the stage is when your squad gets to it during the match then you are doing it wrong. You should already have a Strategy Defined and Programmed BEFORE the match even starts, much less when your squad gets to the stage during the match.

That just means that IPSC Stages can't be this "Fun". But I do agree that if competitors are only allowed a 3 Minute walk through that wouldn't be enough time to figure out a memory stage like this.

The fun thing about PCC's is that they are the gifts that keep on giving.

Gamers gotta Game!!!

Just think, it can only get better from here!!!