Training Classes
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Smart Move
This is a two day class (600 rounds) based on the book Smart Move: Economy of Motion for the shooting sports. The main focus is movement and vision training. It covers various footwork for position exit/entry, shooting on the shift with a hitch step, stage planning for flow of momentum, the movement portion of transitions, resistance training for explosive movement, the Quiet Eye vision training based on research by Joan Vickers.
This class is very helpful for those who have experienced injuries, amputations, or if you are in a wheelchair as well. Please fill out the contact form below to see available classes.
Class Hosting Info
Supplies include two bays that allow for side berm impacts. A classroom is nice but not required (I do have a PowerPoint for the Train Smart class). Walls, barrels, fault lines, steel, target stands, sticks, one box of metric targets (USPSA classes) and 5-10 classic targets, pasters, two timers, access to water and some form of bathroom facility. The Smart Move class requires a 20 pound weight vest or plate carrier and two 10 pound dumbbells. The Train Smart class requires a swinger and one half size target.
The class limit is 8 students. I will create a class info sheet that includes cost and payment instructions. Half of the class fee is due 3 months prior to the date of the class. Payment reserves a slot, no refunds if the class takes place. Classes are available all over the world. Please fill out the contact form below to set up a class in your area.
Train Smart
This is a two day class (600 rounds) that will teach you how to be your own coach.
You will set goals, learn how to set up a training plan, bring pressure to your practice, how to use decision training and contingency plans, variable practice, and random practice. There are mini competitions. Moving targets and eye movement. Risk vs. reward based on hit factor. We start with a blind stage.
Please fill out the contact form below to see available classes.
Class Hosting Info
Supplies include two bays that allow for side berm impacts. A classroom is nice but not required (I do have a PowerPoint for the Train Smart class). Walls, barrels, fault lines, steel, target stands, sticks, one box of metric targets (USPSA classes) and 5-10 classic targets, pasters, two timers, access to water and some form of bathroom facility. The Smart Move class requires a 20 pound weight vest or plate carrier and two 10 pound dumbbells. The Train Smart class requires a swinger and one half size target.
The class limit is 8 students. I will create a class info sheet that includes cost and payment instructions. Half of the class fee is due 3 months prior to the date of the class. Payment reserves a slot, no refunds if the class takes place. Classes are available all over the world. Please fill out the contact form below to set up a class in your area.
Online Coaching
Video Reviews
Coach Kita Busse offers video reviews on movement in which she slows them down, voices over them so there is no reading involved, and draws lines and angles right on the videos themselves. The video review is followed up with personalized drills made just for you to attack your lowest hanging fruit, and take the most time off your courses of fire. Use the contact form below to request a video review and for more information.
Online Coaching
Coach Kita Busse offers online coaching. You can discuss any issues you’ve been having and she will give you individualized drills or exercises to work on those issues. She can also watch you dry fire to provide diagnoses and make adjustments to your training/set up as needed. Use the contact form below to request online coaching and for more information.
“On day 2 of class we moved into a short lecture on vision before working vision concepts on the range. While I find vision probably the most important aspect of shooting, I wasn’t super interested in the lecture because I basically arrogantly assumed it’s not any more complicated than picking a smallish spot on the target and acting accordingly. It was also the after lunch day 2 doldrums for a class that was more physical than I expected when signing up. Then the vision lecture starts with a simple question. “What is the smallest spot a human eye can pick out at 5 yards?”
Ok, my ears perked up at this. Partially because I had zero idea what the answer was and also as the lecture immediately went down a trail I wasn’t expecting. The answer is 7mm. Kita then passed around an image with the formula and common sizes at distances from 5-50 yards. This was a bit of a watershed moment for me as I immediately realized I have been picking a spot far larger than I was capable of choosing. I’ve been to many classes and several of them have been focused on competition shooting. Nobody has ever laid out this subject in this way with concrete data. I may be the kind of dude that watches 3 hour breakdown videos on the Fletcher class destroyers from WWII, but I went from politely uninterested to excited to hit the range and play with this new information.
Then followed an eye exam for all students. Certainly something I’ve never seen in a shooting class before. Kita looked at everyone’s ability to track movement and focus on points, giving suggestions for follow up with an optometrist as needed. In my case noticing that my current script was a bit dated (it was) and that I probably needed up close correction now (I do). I had my annual eye exam the following week, and both takes were accurate (mid 40’s be rough). In private she also inquired about a minor chemical burn in my eyes from the past, which is something that has happened to me. Wasn’t aware it was visible, but kind of a neat moment. It certainly drove home for me that the purpose of this class is looking at competition shooting from the whole as a sports athlete instead of just shooting fast at the things.
After some exercises working vision with speed and large transitions (first dry, and then with live fire), we went back to the stage we had shot earlier in the day with instructions to work on programming the new smaller spots into our stage plan. My run using this new method gathered probably my best points of the class on any of the stages we setup and fired, with arguably the least mental effort. I have since been leveraging this new understanding into my dryfire and practice; looking forward to a major match this weekend.
I received many useful things from this class on movement and other personalized coaching. These things I’ll be programming into my shooting for the next several months for sure, but this one specific lecture really sent me down an interesting path by gently beating me over the head with a data table showing me there was a better way than what I was currently doing instead of a nebulous description of “pick a small spot.” ~ Sam
