TRAINING LEAD-UP
Monday, May 1:
Total Body Yoga | Deep Stretch with Adriene. Good after doing the South Fork Sampler on Saturday.
Tuesday, May 2:
APFT with 47/45 pushups, 79/76 situps, 14:05/15:54 2 miler.
Then a 2 mile ruck with a 30#RPC in 28:16 around work, which had bad air quality because it was near a major road during rush hour. I've rucked at that time of day before, so maybe it the wind was blowing the smog my way that day.
Afterwards, I rode the Peleton, doing the "30 min World Mental Health Day" challenge with Kendall Toole. It sounded like a friendly, gentle class, but it's been the most difficult yet. I was only able to keep up with the commands half the time. It was good content, though, kind of like how yoga instructors will make the class not just about stretching but also frames of mind. It was not the active recovery I had planned on getting, though!
Wednesday, May 3:
Range day at Blackstone with the G19C, plus dry fire at home.
BRAGG DECEPTION PATCH HOLDER WEEKEND
This is the biggest event on the GORUCK FAD calendar. It's geared towards those who have completed a certain series of courses already, so that we can jump right into more advanced techniques. They did open it up this year and disregarded the Deception Patch requirement, though, to get numbers up.
Friday, May 5:
CAS-P
Always start with the fundamentals...
- Clearing procedures, disassembly, insert barrel plugs
- 5 fundamentals
- Mag change practice
- Tap rack bang practice
1. Walk in a circle while doing mag changes using your peripheral vision
2. Shoot 5, reload, shoot, diagnosing peoples' issues and getting good tips along the way
3. Cadence with 3-5 shots, focusing on just getting that first sight picture.
4. One-handed
5. Turn and shoot
6. Triple Bull Quals - as a fun twist, the patches that we'd earn were put in the middle of the target, so that it would get shot up (if you're accurate)
7. See how many consecutive hits you can get after setting first sight picture then closing your eyes to test NPA and recoil management
8. Stations where we can work on the plate rack, pairs on multiple targets from standing, kneeling standing, and mixing in one-handed shooting
Fight
This was a bonus class led by a BJJ instructor. We learned tips on how to get out when attacked against a wall, or if you find yourself pushed to the ground. Setting your feet parallel instead of perpendicular is a big one, and not super intuitive, but it works!
Night-P
In May, it's not like in winter, where it gets dark early, so we did a lot while there was still light out.
1. Shooting warmup (slow aim fire, cadence, shooter's choice)
2. Shooting from seated, standing, kneeling. Seated on a chair isn't an obvious one, but if you're at a restaurant or some venue, it's definitely a possibility!
3. VTACs with buddies. VTACs with pistol tests fundamentals.
4. From the hollow body position, as if you had just been knocked down.
5. From supine, to demonstrate how fundamentals always work, with double-tapped multiple targets for an added twist, with mag changes from prone.
6. O-course to shake out our gear
7. Shooting with handheld flashlight
8. Walk, stop, threat, back to low ready, repeat, advancing towards the target.
Saturday, May 6:
CAS-R
1. Position overview, with a neat car trick that I hadn't seen before.
2. Zero
3. Slow aim fire to know your hold, then cadence
4. Real world qualifier, to get a taste of it... quite challenging to shoot that fast! (15yd standing with 5 and 5 in 15s, 10yd with 5 and 5 in 10s, 5yd with 10rd in 5s, all standing)... I got 199/300.
5. Bill drill at 10yd on paper
6. Turn and shoot Bill drill
7. Advance, stop, shoot, back to low ready, repeat.
8. Horizontal move and shoot, both directions, with Mozambiques
9. 100yd from standing, kneeling, seated, prone... I had trouble getting hits today.
10. VTAC (squares are good for easing into horizontal since you have more space)
11. O-course with random buddy and a sandbag
12. Shooter/spotter communication challenge (failed), lesson in growth mindset
13. Culex: Bounding away
Night-R
1. Transitions to pistol
2. Advance, threat, stop, shoot, back to low ready, repeat, with controlled pairs. It was cool to see the range lit up like an airplane runway.
Sunday, May 7:
TT
1. 2-man, 3-man, 4-man clearing, from corner-fed and center-fed rooms
2. Dynamic clearing of shoot house
3. Room processing after you say "go deep"
4. Tracking crows and canaries, designate when "eagle coming in"
5. I got to be OPFOR for one evolution, which was sooooo much fun. I had the advantage, since I was the trap that was set, but it was awesome, and I shot better than I expected. Close range, but it was a literal blast.
All the patches!
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