Mike Hughes, Author at Next Level Training

POV Shooting USPSA Competitive Shooting Stage

by Mike Hughes | Mar 9, 2012 | Fun, Performance Shooting, Competition Specific, Drive the Gun, USPSA-IPSC

POV in a USPSA Stage I’m personally not a huge fan of the point of view camera shot. It doesn’t quite tell a whole story. However, GoPros have a use and in a stage like this, the shot provides an idea of a gauntlet style action pistol shooting...

Training Youth in Pistol

by Mike Hughes | Mar 7, 2012 | Fundamentals, Grip, Youth

Training Youth in Pistol Proficiency is intertwined with safety. The best thing we can do with youth is trained them on the fundamentals and always go over muzzle awareness and keeping the finger off the trigger. We are producing out the new DVD, Be The Hero, through...

AM Training Series

by Mike Hughes | Feb 28, 2012 | Performance Shooting, Drive the Gun, Recoil Management

AM Training: Shooting Pistol Forward Deceleration: When you are 100% cold hitting the range try a challenging drill that taxes your fundamentals. This drill is a simple drill of two shots at each position of 25 yrds, advance to 20 yrds, 15 yrds and finally two shots...

Training with the SIRT AR Bolt

by Mike Hughes | Feb 6, 2012 | Tactical, AR-15, SIRTAR Bolt

Train with Your Own AR-15 You can train with your AR 15 in your own house. Steve Gowin shows some very basic training techniques you can do with your own AR. Learn how to train some basic skills such as operate the safety (selector switch) with your AR-15 and...

Analyzing Recoil with High Speed Camera: Straight or Bent Arms

by Mike Hughes | Dec 15, 2011 | Drive the Gun, Shooting Diagnostics, Recoil Management

Straight arms or Bent Arms When Shooting a Pistol? ANALYSIS OF RECOIL WITH HIGH-SPEED CAMERA One focus of this analysis is to understand whether you should use straight arms or bent arms. This video shot a few years ago is at least a beginning of an analysis to slow...

2011 Fundamentals

by Mike Hughes | Nov 2, 2011 | Follow Through, Fundamentals, Grip, Stance, Sight Alignment/Picture, Trigger Control

Pistol Fundamentals This is one of our older videos but addresses a common request we get regarding fundamentals. The first question people ask when they see a SIRT is “what do I do with it?” Not everyone has had the chance for formal training and we want...

Low Port with Punching Out Gun

by Mike Hughes | Oct 20, 2011 | Fitness Training with Shooting, Drive the Gun, Malfunctions

Low Port Shooting Today we just had a simple drill of a low port shooting where we kept the pistol back to her chest until he saw the target before we punched out and broke a shot. Want to go live fire; we put brass in the pistols to induce malfunctions. This is an...

Performance at its Best

by Mike Hughes | Oct 17, 2011 | Drive the Gun, USPSA-IPSC, Fun

Performance This Video Says it All… On a serious note though, training at full speed to the point of failure with a lot of repetitions with the SIRT ingrains in safety, namely, finger off trigger and muzzle awareness.