In this live‑streamed session, the instructor (Speaker A) conducts Day 10 of a personal Dry Fire Challenge, aiming to improve draw speed and trigger pull through accountability and daily practice. He recounts a recent classifier test that shaved a few seconds off his draw, then discovers he mistakenly performed 50 reps without the timer recording, prompting a longer session. The bulk of the video is a play‑by‑play of roughly 100 dry‑fire repetitions, during which he critiques his own grip, shoulder tension, sight alignment, and timing, noting moments of tension and relaxation. Throughout, he engages with viewers (Jen, Mario, DJ), answers a question about a “dry fire part timer,” and gives shout‑outs to fellow instructor Rick Ector’s women’s training program. The tone is informal, instructional, and self‑critical, emphasizing incremental improvement, the importance of consistent practice, and community support.
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Ta-da! All right, good morning, Jen. I hope you're enjoying your morning coffee. Yes, I read your emails. No, I did not respond to it. However, I'm going to tell you right now, it is called the Dry Fire Part Timer. That's it, that's all you got. So anyway, hi everybody, this is day 10 of Dry Fire Challenge. Yes, Mario and I have a bet going. I, I goaded him into it. I need to get better practice. Accountability helps. So every night I'm getting on here showing you a little bit of dry fire. So yesterday I did the classifier and I did a little bit better, which is good considering this has only been like a week of dry fire practice because it's one day with the classifier, 6 days, 7 days I did, um, dry fire, uh, then did classifier., and roughly 3 seconds better, I think, is what it ended up being. What did we learn yesterday? Well, my draws were slower because I was being more precise because I did not want to miss my first shot, so that slowed me down. So what did I do tonight? Well, here, let me show you. Tonight, the first thing I did was realize.
Okay, so I just did like 50 reps thinking I was whatever that's called, this recording, that recording thing.
Yeah, that thing. I was not recording. No, I was not.
Timer down here that's going. I should have paid more attention to that.
So So basically, literally, I did 50 rounds. I thought that I was recording. I got to the end of that, went to turn everything off, went to go back, and only to see that I had never turned it on. So this is taking me longer than I expected, but hey, here we go. Since I'm halfway done, uh, what am I working on today?
Today I am working on It's like draw and pulling the trigger. I'm looking at a specific spot on the wall and my timer is set to 2 seconds for my par time. Oh, and Miss Jen, as you're enjoying your coffee this morning and watching this, the answer is dry fire timer. It legit— basically that's what it says. Um, It says dry fire. This is a dry fire part timer. Your firearm should be unloaded and safe. Um, that's really all that it says. However, there's not even like a cool way to show you the, uh—
so I tried to—
maybe you can see that, show the picture.
It literally just looks—
there it is.
Oh my gosh, sorry, I'm looking for the mute button, it's not working. Um, so yeah, so dry fire timer, I could not figure it out. So. So anyway, 50 reps. I'm going to go fast for y'all and I'm going to stop at the ones that suck the most and/or are best. I'm alive right now. Got to pay attention. Catch the replay later. Yep. Thank you. Thank you, DJ. Oh, sorry. I'm talking to DJ. Yes. That means I'm quarking someone or something like that, but that's okay because I just need to do this every day and everyone is welcome to watch the replay. So I'm fast forwarding to where I actually get to some of that.
So ready?
Here we go. Um, I'll give you sound so you get to hear me making it or not making it. Crappy grip. All right, so one of the things I will do while I'm doing it— when I say like sights are no good, it just means like maybe my sights weren't lined up. Sometimes as we go through here, there's somewhere I'm low, somewhere I'm high. Sometimes I pull the trigger and my sights aren't on there at all. So here's the thing. Dry fire, you're going to try to do the best that you can and notice what's working and notice what is not, right? So I'm trying to look to see if there's— and the other thing that I'm really working on really hard, so I'm trying to get my shoulders down. So let's see, am I successful at that? Maybe, maybe not. And I know I'm— I've— oh, Jen, you have to go back and— sorry, hold on. Let's see. So Mario says hi, right? And then Jen says hi. And Jen, you have to go back and watch the replay because I specifically answered your question about email at the beginning of this. So when I gave myself a thumbs up just there, I'm really working on getting my shoulders down. So it's the combo of the less I move, the faster I can go. And unfortunately, I realized out of the corner of my eye, every time I pull the gun out, the, um, the camera is trying to refocus on that. I gave myself a bullet for every time I did another 10. I think that was probably the second 20 or so. Yeah, so my shoulders stayed relaxed. I found towards— as I got towards the end, I started getting tense again. And I think what happens is, as we go forward here, um, when I'm thinking harder, when I'm really tired, that I tend to tense up a little bit. But it's still better than if you go back and look at last week's draws. So anyway, that, my friends, is the dry fire challenge. I, uh, did it. I came back up. Oh, and, uh, shout out to Rick Ector. And his success this weekend in Detroit. Um, they do a program where they train women for free. A bunch of us instructors fly out there for the weekend. I did not go this year. I'm gonna work on that for next year. But this was a shirt I got last year when I went. A friend of mine gave to me, and, uh, because they were talking about, well, God will save me, and, um The guy has a whole story behind here. But anyway, that is that. What else? You also anticipate your movements pretty, but these little things. Yeah. So there's so much thinking going on as I'm doing each one. It's like, all right, shoulders down, just move my arms. All right, how's that sight picture? There's so much happening. And so it's just like, there's a 4-second pause in between each rep, so it gives me barely enough time. And it's like my face, you can tell, did I like it, did I not like it? I think that one was— I didn't really make the part-time. And one— so it's, it's— the idea is not all of them are perfect, but like, see, there, totally shrugged. But anyway, um, this has been more interesting due to the fact that Um, all right, so that was, that was it. That was all of them. I mean, I know you didn't all get to watch all of them, but I had 100 reps today, uh, draw, see my thing, and, and pull the trigger. And again, more hand— more handling time on your firearm will inevitably make you better, little increments at a time. So thank you all for popping in. Yes, Jen, nice to see you, but you really do have to go back and watch the, uh, replay, just in the beginning, but do it tomorrow when you're having your coffee, like you said in your email, which is what I was planning on for tonight. Mario, thanks for checking in. And I have no idea. Oh, it's a crabby. I mean, it's a crabby, it's a turtle, or it's a crabby turtle, depending on which way you want to go. Hey, sorry, you're, you're checking in just as I'm checking out, but I will see you guys tomorrow. What is tomorrow? Tomorrow is Thursday, so I'm teaching most of the day. Who knows, maybe I'll actually get this done early in the morning and post something up, not live, um, just a new video. Because, you know, I— like I said, I do this because it's late at night and I don't feel like editing, so this will be easier. But thank you all for checking in. Like those things, subscribe, share, all that fun stuff. And I will see you all tomorrow. Oh wait, huh, yeah, I have to hit the— ah, I have to hit the end broadcast thing and I have to do it again because there's
