{"id":1682,"date":"2012-02-28T22:36:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T02:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2012-02-28T22:36:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T02:36:51","slug":"congrats-on-the-winter-nats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/congrats-on-the-winter-nats\/","title":{"rendered":"CONGRATS ON THE WINTER NATS"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fifteenth annual indoor winter national championships of the International Defensive Pistol Association (www.idpa.com<\/a>) wrapped up last weekend, and I was pleased to see some friends in the winners\u2019 circle, including my teammate Bob Vogel from Team Panteao, the overall winner and also high police officer.<\/p>\n

Randi Rogers turned in her usual stellar performance, capturing the women\u2019s championship. Her mid-teen prot\u00e9g\u00e9, Tori Nonaka, won the junior championship.\u00a0 Tori bested both genders in her age group to claim her title, and Randi kicked a lot of male boo-tay on her way up the scoreboard, too.<\/p>\n

This pleases me, as a father of daughters.\u00a0 Randi and Tori both come from shooting families.\u00a0 Randi rose to prominence in the firearms world when she was about Tori\u2019s age now, shooting three-gun cowboy competition (single action revolvers, and Old West style rifle and shotgun) under the auspices of the Single Action Shooting Society (www.sassnet.com<\/a>).\u00a0 There, the young Randi didn\u2019t just beat the other women and the other kids\u2026she beat EVERYBODY, including prime of life males.<\/p>\n

It is the almost universal observation of shooting instructors that females more quickly learn to shoot than males.\u00a0 Some part of it is probably their inherently better fine motor coordination. When a male like football player Roosevelt Grier learns to knit, it\u2019s national news; women are more or less expected by our culture to take to knitting.\u00a0 Trigger pulling, like knitting, is a fine motor skill.<\/p>\n

Most schoolteachers will tell you that girls focus better than boys. Shooting is a discipline that DEMANDS mental focus.\u00a0 Women are more flexible than men, supposedly by a factor of 30 degrees in the pelvic axis.\u00a0 In position rifle shooting, where some downright contortion-like postures are demanded in, for example, the sitting stage, the overall national champion is often a female.<\/p>\n

Congrats to Randi and Tori, and indeed, to all who competed at the Indoor Winter Nationals hosted by Smith & Wesson at their facility in Springfield, Massachusetts. It\u2019s always a well run match, and a challenging one.<\/p>\n

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