USPSA requires a lot of movement and proper leg work. You can have the best hits but if you can’t run fast and decelerate properly you will be slow and it will affect your scoring. I really struggled with running so I hired a coach that works on my speed and agility now. My shooting has improved significantly!

Hello 👋

It was one of those competitions that makes me drive back home in silence and question my existence lol. I did really bad today! A lot of trigger freeze, clumsy reloads, slow pace, bad hits. Moreover I totally failed one of the classifier stages 🥲 I’m proud of my stage planning though, also I got much better at moving and shooting, entering and exiting positions. But anyway I don’t want to look at the scoreboard this time 🙈

Dry fire practice before the match tomorrow. If I wasn’t too lazy to do it every day I would have been a B class shooter already 🥲

Getting ready for a competition this weekend 😎 wish me luck

I’m super excited to hear that I inspire girls to try USPSA. It is a male dominated sport and usually I compete against 70-80 men. It’s a lot of pressure and I’m not surprised women are afraid to start. Today my friend Kylee joined my training and hopefully soon we will compete together 👯‍♀️

I do a lot of speed and agility training in the gym to become a better shooter. I didn’t know how important it is to learn how to properly accelerate and decelerate, move sideways etc. I hired a personal gym coach for this purpose lol 🙈 here’s a little bit of my training and a video of me competing

This Gen6 is not being nice to me 🥲 Glock improved grip texture in this generation and it’s ripping my skin so bad. I still love it though

Today I switched from G45 Gen5 to G17 Gen6 🥰 The gun is brand new so the trigger is very tight. I struggled a lot with trigger freeze today. The grip texture is very sharp too, it ripped my hand. But overall I loved it, the grip is much tighter and less bouncy than G45. I expect it to ruin my performance significantly while I’m getting used to it lol but it’s a part of the game.

Almost a year ago I joined USPSA—United States Practical Shooting Association and became a competitive shooter. I go to the range twice a week and compete almost every month. I think Nostr is the best place to share my shooting journey with you guys 😎

What a beautiful day

My favorite annual before and after! 5 years ago on this day I found my dog Ollie in the streets of Tbilisi (left pic). Ollie in the Central Park in New York on the right 🐶

Saw this from my window early in the morning and ran outside barefoot to capture it. What an incredible encounter!

My new hobby

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