2014 Indiana USPSA Championship "Spaceballs" The Match

[jakemartens]

Max dropps his mags with his weak hand?!!?!? Does he do that all the time or did he only do it there in order to keep his firing grip for the Strong hand portion to follow the reload?

I think that was just the reload for the SHO part....which is why I posted that, I found it very interesting

 

[sporter]

Jake and crew (Dan!)

Thank you very much for the event and great match.

I can't imagine all the work you guys put into making that happen.

Good times!

 

[jakemartens]

[video=youtube;diuOcWgxB1E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diuOcWgxB1E&feature=youtu.be[/video]

 

[jakemartens]

Part II
[video=youtube;FlcwdSWsbWo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlcwdSWsbWo&feature=youtu.be[/video]

 

[goldtrigger]

Jake,
Thanks for posting this. Looks like a fun time! I hope to attend next year.

 

[Friction]

Excellent match and all around classy event. Great stages, friendly RO's and there was even good food. I really can't stress enough how cool the staff at the event was. After seeing what almost amounted to a riot agains the staff in TX this year at the DTC after some of them started being overly aggressive and bumping guys to open for mag pouches being a mm to far forward it was nice to see guys that could make hard calls with a professional attitude and demeanor.

I had some sloppy reloads, unnecessarily slow transitions between targets, lighter than normal ammo (127PF) that wasn't dropping big steel well and a failed sprint across one stage that almost resulted in a pulling a Chaney off the right boundary but I managed to hold it together. Speaking of Chaney, I also decided that while everyone else was stopping at 10 on his stage that my round count would go to 11, just because thats how I like to self destruct and cost myself 4 places in the final results with 1 shot... EAD Virginia count double penalties!

[video=youtube;28yO6ANeJgY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28yO6ANeJgY&list=UU97PxDYg_hHZpwJejE7OYSQ[/video]

 

[Litlratt]

@ friction
Had you been DQed on the fourth target on your second stage the rest would have been moot.

 

[downrange72]

@ friction
Had you been DQed on the fourth target on your second stage the rest would have been moot.

Do look at videos to see where you can DQ people?

For the record, I'd say that was 179.5 and that is legal.

 

[jakemartens]

@ friction
Had you been DQed on the fourth target on your second stage the rest would have been moot.

Gary should know what this looks like

 

[Litlratt]

Do look at videos to see where you can DQ people?

For the record, I'd say that was 179.5 and that is legal.

No, I remember the stage. If you shot the first target that you saw in the second array, there was a very good chance of 180ing the second.

 

[Friction]

I'm not one to argue the call of an RO that was running the stage and my opinion is clearly biased so my comments are solely based on the video.

That being said, I shot my last round before the reload at 14seconds and drop the mag before 15 seconds at which time the mag drops straight down. I never stopped moving forward during the process. At 17 seconds the video shows where the mag hit the ground. The mag in laying pretty close to the 180, if not on it, which implies that my last shot prior to reloading had to be prior to 180. The fisheye lens over my left shoulder makes it look worse then at was but if you assume that the engagement of the first target on that stage was a safe angle then so is the 4th.

But if there is a lesson to be learned here, it's that referring to almost falling down as a "Pulling a Chaney" seems to be a good way to get someone fired up. So I vote we try and get that added to the next revision of the rulebook.

 

[Litlratt]

You're a long way from firing me up, grasshopper.
I merely made an observation.

 

[downrange72]

No, I remember the stage. If you shot the first target that you saw in the second array, there was a very good chance of 180ing the second.

I agree it looks close but I think he was good. The camera can distort reality

 

[praff]

The camera can distort reality

Ohhhhhh......thats why i look so fat and slow on video. Huh, never made the connection

 

[Grelber]

The camera can distort reality

And the guy swinging the camera pole about can bruise the snot out of your shin bone.

 

[praff]

I shot an average match at best, then caught a little bad luck. Two of the best stages of the match for me were lost due to a re-shoot (really f'd that one up) and another stage getting tossed. But way too many mikes and deltas are what hurt me the most (aside from being less than urgent in my movement on a few stages). I put my best stage at the end of the video, but the details are a little iffy .

[video=youtube;JV8vEwWQPBs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV8vEwWQPBs&feature=youtu.be[/video]

 

[BROBERTS]

Two of the best stages of the match for me were lost due to a re-shoot (really f'd that one up) and another stage getting tossed.

I had 2M,FTG on that stage. I didn't mind see it go!! Shot slow but shot 95% of the points.

[video=youtube;zj9Ete3H4JI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj9Ete3H4JI[/video]

 

[jakemartens]

the stage that got tossed was probably the best stage of the match and it hurt to have to toss it
I would have tossed the two speed shoots next to it, but there still could have been a safety issue with shooting into the right hand side berm if someone happened to go walking into the bay with the two speed shoots

Don't worry that stage will be back

 

[BROBERTS]

Sh#t happens Jake. You can't see everything. No one had any clue that the berms were that low when you didn't someone in it. Still a outstanding match!! But I did like your idea about the white helmets!! Going to be hard for the next SC or MD to come close to your matchs.

 

[Dog1]

We are fixing the berms. Dozer guy has already been lined up.