By Ben Berry
A Podcast about Practicing, USPSA, and Practical Shooting
This week on the podcast, I had Tyler Turner on to continue the discussion from last time about what the goals of the sport should be: shooters developing and getting better, or just more warm bodies in matches? For an automated...
Mason Lane joins me for a discussion of what the priorities of USPSA should be and how we should think about boosting participation in the sport versus encouraging the development of competitive shooters. For a transcript of the episode, click...
This is the audio version of this blog post: https://berryshooting.com/?p=9193 .
This week on the podcast, I talk about this year's NC match from the staff perspective. I discuss everything that went well and is worth emulating, including the format of the shooting days, 5 minute walkthroughs, all-staff reset, and more.
This week on the podcast, I talk about this year's NC Section championship, focusing on my season leading up to the match and my performance during the match.
This episode is a rip of a YouTube livestream that I did talking about a particular stage at the 2020. If you want to see the video of the stage in question or the spreadsheet I use to illustrate the...
This week on the podcast, I say nice things about IDPA and discuss some things that I think they get right: things like simpler rules, more social culture, better range commands, and banning memory stages.
This week on the podcast, I talk about the recent 2020 South Carolina Section match. I discuss whether it's better to leave stages in or throw them out, why three minute walkthroughs are still a bad idea, and I shot...
This week on the podcast, I talk about the April 19th GoShoot USPSA match, and some things that I think they do differently that are worth emulating.
In a change of pace this week, I'm uploading the audio from a livestream I did of a recent USPSA match that I shot. If you can, I recommend just skipping this podcast episode and watching the video that accompanies...
This week on the podcast, I talk about the idea that there is no such thing as a perfect match. First, as a competitor: you'll never have a match without flaws, and that's fine. Second, as a match attendee: there...
This week on the podcast, I talk about shooting my first match in two months, and how moderate expectations led to a good performance. I also go into why I think an offseason isn't that important early in your shooting...
This week on the podcast, I talk about the 2019 Production Nationals in Frostproof, Florida. I talk through my thoughts about the match compared to previous years, review my personal performance, and raise my two big concerns with the way...
This week on the podcast, I talk in depth about the 2019 North Carolina section match, the work that went into it, the things they did differently, and how it turned out.
This week on the podcast, I talk about taking a break and what it taught me about having flexible vs rigid scheduling and expectations. The blog post in the second half of the episode is here: https://berryshooting.com/blog/more-reps/ .
Hey folks, Ben here. I just wanted to put the word out that I'm taking a break from Short Course for a while. I'm not sure exactly how long. Since I started doing the first test episode in November 2017, I've always...
This week on the podcast, I talk about the ways that ego can get in the way of developing yourself as a shooter.
This week on the podcast, I talk about what keeps me in the sport and the lessons that have transferred from competition over in to my life off the range
This week on the podcast, I talk through my recent experience shooting through an 8-stage club match in two hours.
This week, I talk about my experience with making speed gains, and why they usually don't come just by trying harder or trying to go faster.
This week, I talk about how I visualize through stages, the exact details I visualize in, and discuss why the speed of my visualization isn't all that important to me.
This week on the podcast, I talk about having breakthroughs when you realize that something you took for granted turned out to be wrong, or at least only true in some contexts. My website is at www.berryshooting.com . I post videos...
This week on the podcast, I talk about misconceptions that people have about being a GM or shooting matches as a GM, and why it's not really all that different. If you want to support the podcast, consider buying a shirt...
This week on the podcast, I talk about how the South Carolina Section Match went and the lessons I'm taking away from it going forward. My video for the match is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhFyYBQKS94 . If you want to support the podcast, consider...
This week on the podcast, I talk about my mindset and preparation going in to the 2019 SC Section match this Saturday, including how I'm setting my expectations for my performance and the key things I want to include in...
This week I recap the stages I shot at a few local matches and try to draw some lessons learned from them.
This week on the podcast, I catch up on a few different things I've been thinking about. I talk about USPSA not printing paper rulebooks anymore, setting aside my opinions when shooting matches, 3 minute stage walkthroughs, and answer a...
This week on the podcast, I talk about the book Mastery by George Leonard. I talk about some of the reasons I'm always in the process of re-reading it, and try to give you a sense for what the book...
This week on the podcast, I talk about mindset changes going forward into this season to take stages more seriously and shoot closer to my theoretical skill. I also talk about some of my new goals going forward in both...
This week on the podcast, I talk through the problems I've been having trying to get this year of shooting started and speculate about the underlying causes.
This week on the podcast, I finish discussing a club match stage-by-stage and talk about the things that went well and the lessons learned from each one. The blog post I wrote that includes the match video for this match...
This week on the podcast, I talk through a club match stage-by-stage and talk about the things that went well and the lessons learned from each one. The blog post I wrote that includes the match video for this match...
This week on the podcast, I talk through some of the lessons I took away from 2018. I talk about what I learned about gun grips and gripping the gun, the value of go fast gun parts and paster guns,...
This week on the podcast, I talk through how the 2018 competition season went for me. I talk through the matches shot, practice sessions, and rounds fired. I go through the four major matches I shot, including my DQ at...
This week on the podcast, I talk about what I've learned about setting goals in the last year, and discuss my own plans and goals for 2019.
This week I talk about taking an offseason. I talk about different approaches to managing your time between seasons and why it is important to take at least some break. I talk about my tentative plans for the offseason and...
This week on the podcast, I talk about the NC Section match. I talk through the different stages and how I approached them, and my overall mindset that I used to win.
This week on the podcast, I talk about some discussions I've had around Nationals and if I had the opportunity to change things, what I would do differently.
This week on the podcast, I talk about three areas of improvement I've identified from Nationals, and how I dealt with them at a club match this past weekend.
This week on the podcast, I continue the discussion about USPSA Factory Gun Nationals. I talk about how well the match flowed, what I thought of the stages, why I liked the prize table this year, and give some early...
This week on the podcast, live from the hotel room the night before the final day of Production Nationals, I talk about how things have changed in the last year, and what I'm looking to get out of shooting Nationals...
This week on the podcast, I continue my discussion of the proposed rule changes for the 2019 USPSA rulebook. I run through the details about what will be changing and why I think they are almost all good improvements for...
This week on the podcast, I talk about the proposed rule changes for the 2019 USPSA rulebook. I run through the details about what will be changing and why I think they are almost all good improvements for the sport.
This week on the podcast, I talk about my strange, sporadic schedule of shooting Single Stack over the course of three years, what I learned from it, and why I eventually gave it up.
This week on the podcast, on the two year anniversary of switching to shoot a Tanfoglio, I look back on the different Production guns I've shot over my career and talk about what I learned from each one, and what...
This week on the podcast, I start out by talking about cancelling the NC Section due to Hurricane Florence, which I maintain to be the right decision. I then mention that my wife and I will be on the September...
This week on the podcast, I talk about what to look for in gun grips, and why I am really liking the new G10 grips I got for my Tanfoglios.
This week on the podcast, I talk about the recent match at Sir Walter USPSA, and review my performance on the stages before the rain caused us to have to end the match early.
On this episode, I follow up on Episode 27 and continue my discussion of live fire and dry fire practice. I talk about having a plan for practice but being willing to improvise, why you should do fewer things in...
This week on the podcast, I answer a couple listener questions. The first about stage planning with 10 rounds, and the second about how long to expect to see changes from practice. I also talk about the idea that "the...
