Performance Shooting Archives - Next Level Training

Pistol Target Transition Analysis

by Luke Smithers | Mar 24, 2017 | Drive the Gun, Follow Through, SIRT Training Pistol, Stance, Target Transitions

Transitioning from target to target is simple in theory, but have you thought about the complex ways your body moves just to rotate? Mastering control of your body will allow you to improve the quickness and accuracy of your shots. For this training, we will be...

Travis Haley on Working Out with Proper Biomechanics on Shooting

by Mike Hughes | Oct 27, 2016 | Fitness Training with Shooting, SIRT Training Pistol

Travis Haley practices in his daily life getting in and out of positions, his general body mechanics as a lifestyle on and off the range. POSITION WORK: Haley discusses position work such as just taking a knee. Haley stresses instead of just stepping narrow, step out...

Acceptable Accuracy

by Mike Hughes | Aug 6, 2016 | Drive the Gun, Fundamentals, Performance Shooting

Do you shoot to maximize your speed and accuracy? If you want to maximize your speed and accuracy you have to strive to get “acceptable hits” not “perfect center hits”. The important element on acceptable accuracy zones is to know how much...

POV Shooting USPSA Competitive Shooting Stage

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

AM Training Series

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

Analyzing Recoil with High Speed Camera: Straight or Bent Arms

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

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...

Low Port with Punching Out Gun

by Mike Hughes | Oct 20, 2011 | Drive the Gun, Fitness Training with Shooting, 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, Fun, USPSA-IPSC

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.

Sevigny Shooting Swingers

by Mike Hughes | Sep 9, 2011 | USPSA-IPSC

David Sevigny Shredding Swinger Targets This thing is one of the best shooters in the world with multiple National Championships.

Training Lateral Movement with Decelerating and Shooting

by Mike Hughes | Sep 6, 2011 | Drive the Gun, Performance Shooting

Decelerating Body to Set Up and Shoot It’s nice to have a barricade that has a lot of variability to it so we have to plant our feet and have some upper body shifting to get on target as quickly as possible. All often we use the same apparatuses on the range...

2010 USPSA Nationals

by Mike Hughes | Sep 19, 2010 | Drive the Gun, Speed and Accuracy, USPSA-IPSC

Competing in a national level competition against the best around the country(an arguably around the world) is an exhilarating experience. Stage 07 Playlist of 2010 Super Squad

2010 Area 1 USPSA Videos

by Mike Hughes | Apr 27, 2010 | Drive the Gun, Performance Shooting, USPSA-IPSC

Competition Shooting Anyone has any interest in taking they’re shooting to the next level, shooting competition provides a structure to focus your training towards speed and accuracy. Of course is a lot to pistol training, but speed and accuracy is a cornerstone...