You Cannot Shoot Fast Enough to Win

So, the last month I have been working on going faster.  While analyzing scores, it is obvious that you can sacrifice some accuracy and still win by going faster.  It is interesting to look at scores and see that the most accurate is not always the winner.  But it makes sense if you shoot slow you can spend more time setting up your shots.

What happened?  By going faster somehow my fingers forgot how to hold the gun!  I am grabbing the grip too low, my thumbs change places and my trigger finger is embedded all the way into the finger guard.  The result is that I started getting jams, my shooting buddies are exchanging cash and betting when I will cut off my thumb and my shooting is sloppy.  The errant trigger finger is causing me to smash the trigger, pushing the gun down so my shots hit too low.

Back to the drawing board.  The important aspect of shooting is that you cannot shoot fast enough to win.  Getting faster certainly helps, but if your accuracy goes way out of line, you are not going to get yourself off the bottom.   I had not developed enough muscle memory to hold the gun correctly if I am not concentrating on it.  Sigh.  Practice makes perfect.

As a side note, shooting requires the intelligence of an athlete.  It is a misconception that physicists are smart and athletes are not.  Intelligence has many forms.  An athlete's brain has to work super fast, analyze instantly, be obvious of many different factors at one time, determine what is important for focus and react in a split second.  You can take this quiz to learn if you are as smart as an athlete.

Now, I plan on forgetting everything I learned about physics and concentrate on my body intelligence. At The Ohio State University I was voted as the graduate student in our Physic Education Group who looked the least like Einstein.  (Lucky me! I don't know how I would have ever found a date if I looked like him.)