Smoother, Quicker Reloads with Colors & Shapes

What in the heck are these colors and shapes doing on my mags and in my magwells?

They’re a hack to help you be smoother, more consistent, and quicker with your reloads.

I’ll tell you all about them in the video here:

Pretty cool, huh? 🙂

In summary…

The colored marks in the magwell and on magazines help create a visual handrail to improve the speed and accuracy that you can insert a fresh magazine.

In an ideal world, we’d do our reloads without looking, but that depends on how accurate and precise our proprioception (hand-eye coordination) is.  Using the dots helps to compensate for inaccurate hand-eye coordination AND quickly helps improve hand-eye coordination for reloads.

Keeping the pistol out and the arms in an outside-90 framework is quicker, increases awareness during the reload, and provides a better defense against an attacker who appears around a corner and is closing distance.  < It’s worth pointing out that reloads are a very low probability event in a self-defense situation…let alone getting rushed during that reload.  Awareness during the reload and being able to quickly and cleanly accomplish the reload and get back on target quickly is the biggest advantage.

Keeping the pistol out works better for many ranges where the muzzle must remain pointed downrange into the berm during reloads.

As speed, visual complexity, and cognitive load increases, the likelihood of seeing the colors/shapes drops, BUT the hand-eye coordination that you developed by using the colors/shapes at slower speeds and lower cognitive loads remains.  To be clear, you not only want to practice slowly, but you want to also practice at full speed.  This is a complex motor skill using both hands, so speed and inertia matter…it’s not good enough to only practice slow and expect to be able to execute fast like you can with a gross motor movement.

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