Interesting article regarding reaction times

[TFOGGER]

http://www.forcescience.org/articles/biomechanics.pdf


Sent to me in an email by Graham Dunne, CCW instructor

[SA Friday]

What, it's all about practicing? And here I thought it was all about the equipment.

I've seen sub one second draws from level one holsters and 1.2s from level three holsters. They all practiced a lot.

Any regular B class USPSA shooter would have smoked those times. I see it happen every match. Yet, there are still those that don't believe shooting competitively is beneficial, even read a post recently about that in another thread. All those times concerning sight acquisition to the first round, pretty much all of them incorporate this, drastically reduce with consistent competition shooting. It's a perishable involuntary reaction. Competition is the only thing I've ever found that reduces the time this reaction occurs in. In some lucky shooters like Hannu and Cha-lee, I've seen them have secondary shot split times (the time from first shot to second shot) below one tenth of a second. I watched Cha-lee do it with three rounds in a row consecutively on a target one match, all hits within 2 1/2" spread in the A zone. Even an average competition shooter can pull .2 sec splits on A zone hits out to about 12-15 yds.

I would love to see this guy now go to a USPSA match and run some testing to compare it to his LE data.

[Cman]

That was interesting - thanks.