We left for Prague on Thursday morning – early Thursday morning. In fact, I drove off a little after 3 in the morning, to pick up the next early-morning chief instructor, before we drove on to Midtsjælland, where we gathered in one car and really started south.

The trip to the ferry was spent looking at the morning mist over the Danish summer country, and small talk about the summer holidays and loosely
On the ferry we met Kimu Sensei and Jens Hanshi-dai. We had arranged to bring breakfast with coffee, juice, etc., and here Kimu Sensei outlined for the first time what was to happen during the coming extended weekend.

POW

Because we were on the TLUS POMW 3.4, POMW gunner instructor course. As mentioned a number of times over time, POMW is a prestigious project in Shindenkan, conceived, designed, started and carried out by Kimu Sensei, who, based on himself, has set the bar very high, has bet everything, has started from scratch with shooting, and now has learned from the best in the world. POMW aims to prove Minouchi Sensei's thesis about the transition to martial arts (see previous articles on the subject).

Cheese bell

So we were at the POMW Praha Camp – we were in the shooting world. Our own cheese bell and we had to live, breathe and think shooting. We were heading for the wild west. The total shooting experience in the Czech Republic, where you can shoot with almost anything, except the bazooka.
And it was fun 🙂 but it wasn't too fun!

Shooting

We were accommodated in the hotel rooms of a really good hotel, where Kimu Sensei had again managed to get super good discounts, upgrade to Business Class, and access to the Executive Lounge, which we all enjoyed.
From there we went to the ranges and started with range shooting with cal 0.22, to refresh the familiar, focusing on the POMW marksmanship manual, including leg position, hand position, general body position, trigger with pull squeeeeze, and aiming for recoil control. Kimu Sensei corrected us for our small mistakes, and during the day the results of the work showed in the form of the dry training, and the cal 0.22 shooting we had all practiced at home in the shooting clubs as well as in our dry training with airguns.
Then we moved on to terrain shooting - that is, range shooting with transitions. We have also previously practiced this with airguns and laserguns (SIRT). We made large and small transitions and transitions towards up to 4 targets, where the movement starts in the hips, with a focus on an even and continuous shooting rhythm, because double-tap does not exist.
We continue to work with dry training with our airguns and the SIRTs we have brought, this time with training of draw, magazine change, transition, strong hand and weak hand and change of hand with a pistol – dry training against IPSC shooting.
And since you have to know your equipment, we practiced cleaning the different guns so that we all knew them and could handle them.
Back at the range, we refreshed the cal .22, then switched to our 9mm CZs. We all had major problems with accuracy and it showed through problems with recoil control and recoil scare. At the same time, Kimu Sensei thundered out with his 9mm with several shots per second only in the black, so that we got used to the more powerful ammunition and reaction in the shortest possible time.
Again, the well-planned shooting paid off as we all corrected our mistakes, which had a big effect. At the same time, Kimu Sensei of course took the opportunity to teach us as shooting instructors how to analyze a shot pattern and a shooter, troubleshoot and give targeted feedback.
Dry training and weapon cleaning continued at home, and at the range we finished our cal 0.22 shooting with great improvements in our results, and now concentrated only on 9mm, practicing shooting at different distances, point shooting, and then shooting with strong hand and weak hand, now also in two-shot volleys, at increasing distances.

Stability

There has been a long period when I have been dependent on outside help to find errors, and correct and adjust in relation to them.
This time, too, I got help through Kimu Sensei's razor-sharp analysis of my shooting and my mistakes.
But what I did well this time was that I was stable. And what was even better – I listened to myself, and trusted my own assessment of myself. This meant that I could actively pull myself up by the hair when I could feel myself going down the chute.
What made the light come on for me was what Jens Hanshi-dai said about performance anxiety (so oops! now I have to do it again, and I probably can't), that the other way of looking at it was: When I was able to do it yesterday, so I can do it again now!
It was so simple, yet the two points of view were like night and day, and made a big impression on me. I became so focused that I became overall match winner for RRCampPraha. I had no expectations of that, and I am naturally proud of that.
Cool!
……Continue……

The process

Because more important than the result is the process. Can you see what's happening or are you just looking? Did you understand what happened, can you repeat it or was it a lucky punch? And can you see it in the larger context? Can you see the results and interpret them? In that case, you can see that I was focused and highly motivated, as I was aware that my preparations had not been as thorough as those of my colleagues. And then you can see that Søren Renshi, who consistently did not shoot to his best, did not shoot badly. Even though he had a bad day, he shot consistently and consistently at what was his bottom level, and it was actually significantly higher than my bottom level. Had we met on a day when I hit rock bottom, I'm sure he would have beaten me emphatically. A chain is no stronger than the weakest link.
This means that I have to see rather than just look. I also need to look below the surface.

Ego

Because shooting contains a danger of falling into looking at the result, rather than looking at the process and the learning. In shooting, you have an immediate measurable result. You just have to fire off 30 rounds, retrieve the target, and voila, you can see how good you are. It reminds a lot of the new social media (Facebook, Twitter etc.) where you post information about yourself, and in no time you have an answer to whether you are loved - or popular, and you can shape your posts according to what gets results. It is "instant gratification", and it is very popular, and very addictive.
The problem is that it encourages short-term results and does not reward visionary work. And if you, like me, have an uncertainty about whether I am loved, here you can get your fix of immediate results, short-term!
Here, Kimu Sensei uses the shooting as a clear example of the dangers of seeking short-term results and external recognition. The long-term solution is to learn from the process, understand and acknowledge. The long-term process is to recognize myself rather than being dependent on the recognition of others.
I clearly remember a day on the 25m track where it didn't really work for me. Luckily, Kimu Sensei was there and he made time for me. After the corrections, he demonstrated what he meant, with two loaded magazines, he fired at a furious pace first one magazine, then fluidly and lightning fast magazine change, after which he fired the next magazine. After that he smiled at me and went on his way without looking at the disc and the result! All in all his 30 shots and magazine change took between 30-45 seconds I think and the result – I counted 286 out of 300 points and he just didn't care.

Results, and a tool like any other

Before we left Denmark, I had shot approx. 250 shots with my 9mm CZs, and approx. 2,700 cal 0.22.
The targeted focus, the good foundation and the specific corrections, made the 80% of the participants set a new record with cal. 0.22 – I shot 277 myself. I set a new personal record in 9mm, where I went from "did I hit the target?" for a score of 255 on 15m. It's definitely a step forward and we were all a little shocked at how Kimu Sensei's structured teaching helped us along the way.
Kimu Sensei always takes advantage of the opportunities that present themselves, and here in Prague was the opportunity to go beyond the normal shooting experience. Therefore, of course, we all had to try to shoot with something exotic
We tried pistols – namely cal .40 (Glock), cal .45 (Glock), as well as revolvers – Magnum Cal .357 and Magnum Cal .44, and finally Shotgun with regular shot and with Magnum slugs.
What we learned here was how significantly larger caliber pistols, revolvers and shotguns behave, our reaction to it, our recoil control of it, and how affordable our 9mm really is.
And a bit of boyishness went into it too. It's pretty hard to fire your first Magnum cal .44 without coming up with a heartfelt Motherf…..!
And it was fun 🙂 but it wasn't too fun!

Facts:

POMW has led to remarkable results among the chief instructors
POMW has led to remarkable results among students
The POMW has attracted a lot of attention both at home and abroad, with both civilian and military shooters
POMW, like Shindenkan, is bigger than us, and has both a bigger goal, and also a selfless goal, to promote learning, and we have to keep that in mind - we have to see ourselves in the context of the bigger issue!

Thank you for another good and educational RRCamp
This time in Praha, where we also had time for a stroll on the Charles Bridge, a look at the astronomical clock, and a good dinner with Czech beer – we were in the cheese bell of our shooter world after all 🙂