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Old March 7, 2016, 10:07 PM   #1
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15 year old wins USPSA Area 2

Talk about good reflexes and fast eyes, by over 50 points, the next generation of competition shooters, hell yea, kick butt. Destroyed all of the Grand Master World Champions. Our time has now passed..... The Great One, TGO, Rob Leatham shot CO, carry optics, not Single Stack. I would have been 3rd behind Robby and Nick in CO.



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http://www.proshotproducts.com/Kinca...s_ep_69-1.html
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Old March 8, 2016, 11:20 AM   #2
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The older generations of shooters generally didn't hit their stride until well into their twenties, if that.
Like most sports these days, the top contenders seem to start their development even before they're teenagers.
Hard to compete with that.
Good thing there's a Seniors Division.
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Old March 8, 2016, 09:53 PM   #3
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And a Super Senior Division, and soon to be a States Man Division. I don't plan to get better, only older, and then kick butt. However the trend is younger, faster shooters, who start earlier and have much faster reflexes from playing hundreds of hours of video games.
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Old March 9, 2016, 10:02 AM   #4
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I read a report of a military study,,,

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...and have much faster reflexes from playing hundreds of hours of video games.
I read a report of a military study,,,
That tended to indicate this is not really true.

When the games first came out,,,
It was thought every kid would develop fighter pilot reflexes,,,
But every study done by the Navy and Air Force showed that nothing really improved.

What they found was that unless the game was specifically designed to target a certain skill,,,
All it did was give the impression of greater performance,,,
Actual measurements proved the opposite.

Now, having said that,,,
First person shooter games seem "specifically targeted" to me.

It's like flight simulators,,,
I know several flight instructors,,,
They all say the same thing about simulations.

No one learns to actually fly using a simulator,,,
What they learn is how to deal with emergency scenarios.

I'm not surprised by the young man's success though,,,
At two different steel challenge matches that I spectate at,,,
The dominant shooters in the rimfire division are two young teenage girls.

I chatted with one of the parents,,,
The girls have been shooting since they were 5 years old,,,
Hundreds of thousands of rounds in practice is what is making them win.

Good on this young man though,,,
However he attained his level of skill.

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Old March 9, 2016, 11:23 AM   #5
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Video games do help for action pistol, especially USPSA Open Division, because of the transition speed between targets, it forces you to look quickly, and most of those games use a dot like sight. The only difference is their is no noise or recoil. Unlike SCSA Steel Challenge, or the West Coast Steel Challenge, not local steel matches, there is no movement and everything is based on muscle memory, which requires live fire practice. The top challenge shooters will run the stages with their eyes closed for practice because they are the same at every match, unlike USPSA, where the number of targets, distance and engagement are different at every stage of every match. Years ago KC Esubio was shooting a challenge, and he kept missing one target. So the RO's measured the course and it was off by one foot. But there's only a few naturals on the planet, and this kid is one of them. He beat dozens of National Champions at the USPSA Area 2, over 400 entries, and he's only been playing this game for a couple of years.
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