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Match Preparation
Success in competition is never an accident. It is a prepared for event!
You should do all you can to insure you best performance will come through in competition. Sportsmen who are not professional are often guilty of being lazy in their preparation for competition, and they do not get the consistent good performance they HOPE for. Dont HOPE make it happen!!!
Your goal should be to ALWAYS shoot well in the big matches. To the best of your current ability.
Every little small thing you do well in preparation adds a little to the chance of having a great performance. There is no ONE THING that makes or breaks your success. Its the little things together. So treat them all equally importantly.
The month before your big match Try to find out all you can about the match. What kind of shooting can you expect, distances, types of stages, size of shooting bays will tell you about distance and movement. This will enable you to train more effectively, and will also give you a mental edge, as you will feel better prepared.
Try to increase you ammo count in practice, to sharpen your subconscious skills. Do a lot of dry firing if you cant get to the range enough.
Do a lot of mental rehearsal. Think often about your competition. Always in a very positive way. Always see yourself doing very well in your match, reaching your goals.
Try to find out all you can about the match location, the range, the weather, the facilities on the range, what gear you will need. This is particularly important if you have never been there before.
Make all your travel bookings. Choose a hotel close to the range, so as not to have to rush or worry about traffic in the mornings. The match hotel is a good choice, as they will have many shooters there, and so will usually offer an early breakfast.
Make sure you do all your gear changes and gun repairs long in advance. Dont leave changing parts to the last minute.
The week before your big match You should not train harder the week before. Some even say train less. You do not want to be burned out, or tired of shooting before the match. You should have a hunger for shooting.
Do more mental rehearsal see yourself doing very well. Daydream often about achieving your goal.
Your gear should be working perfectly. Leave nothing to chance. Most malfunctions are the shooters own fault, and can usually be traced to bad preparation. If you are going to make a major cleaning, stripping the gun down do that with a few more practices to go.
Zero your sights. You should try to do it in the same kind of light conditions you will shoot in competition.
Prepare you ammo and chrono it. If possible, with the same kind of chrono to be used in the match. When you chrono take from your ammo sample rounds, every 50 or so, and chrono these, so you can see a trend. As a rule never be closer to the limit than 5 points. Or even 8. Be familiar with your load/powder, and know how it will react in altitude and temperature changes.
Travel to the match with enough time to rest a little before competition. Take into account jet-lag if need be.
Get your sleep cycle in order, if you are a late to bed late to rise person, you will want to try and change that before your match. Otherwise getting up at 5am may really hurt your performance.
The day before your big match Make sure you spend some time on the range the day before. So you are familiar with it, and get a feel for the place. More critical if you have never been there before. This way you know for sure how to find it, and will not be stressed about this the next day. We fear the unknown. The more you know about the range/match, the less anxiety will set in.
Of course you want to spend some time studying the stages. Use your match book to decide which stages you want to watch shot (in the pre-match). As you may not have time to watch them during the match. When you go to watch stages, takes your match book, a stop watch and a pen. Make notes! As you may not remember after looking at 16 stages or more.
Take care of registration! Make sure you are entered correctly, and you know which squad you are on, and where you start. The next day you want to go directly to your stage.
Try to see the squad list, so you can see who you shoot with, and also to know the order of shooting and can you expect to be up first on the first stage.
Make sure you have all you need the day before. Food, drink, chair, rain/sun protection. Leave nothing to buy the morning of competition.
Have a good dinner, and get to bed early enough, so you get enough sleep even if you need to rise very early, as you usually do in IPSC competitions.
The morning of your big match Make sure you are up early enough. It takes our body 2.5-3 hours to be fully awake for activity, like what we need in IPSC shooting! You want to have a good performance of the first stage you need to be fully awake.
Have a good breakfast but eat early enough, 1.5 hours before the first stage especially if that stage requires lots of running.
Go for a walk/jog or stretch do some warm up exercises.
Dry fire just to get the feel of the gun. Practice perhaps special start positions.
Pack you bags and use a check list if need be. Take more than you need in food/drink and ammo. You can always leave it in the car - but at least its on the range.
Leave for the range early enough so that you dont need to be worried about traffic, or feel rushed. You want to feel relaxed.
Dont worry about feeling butterflies and stress building up. Say to yourself this tension I am feelings is good. I need this for my best performance and I know how to keep it under control.
Be positive, and show confidence. Feel like a winner feel like you are shooting great even though you have not even started.
