Last week when I was on the range doing all the shooting for last weeks Junk Science show I noticed something that I’d never noticed before. When I was doing the step into the box draws, I could reliably shave a tenth of a second when I put my focus on the draw stroke, and not the step. If I just let the step happen, and put my focus on the draw, a pretty average draw was about .95, .96, .97, something like that. However, when I focused on the step, and let the draw stroke just happen, the time went up to about 1.06 or so. I’ve subscribed to the “get bored while you practice thing” and get in a lot of repetitions thing for a long time, but I kind of wonder how much better I’d be now, or how much more I’d enjoy practice if I were really focusing on things, and not allowing myself to get bored. Doing the shooting for last weeks show, I couldn’t allow myself to get bored. I had to keep focus. I didn’t get bored, and I actually got to where I could feel it when I’d shot a draw that was sub .9, and sub 1 second, and when I was greater than a second, it felt SLOW. Being able to perceive that sort of difference between different draws, when I’m human, was really interesting to me, but if I weren’t totally focused, they would have all felt relatively the same. Q&A: Drew:  Hi Lucas. I've recently started helping with my IDPA club's Facebook page. That made me wonder, what do shooters want to see from a club's page? Just links to Practiscore? I've seen some clubs that post with a summary of the match calling out the winners of divisions. What would be fun or helpful without being annoying?  Post interesting stuff. Sure, you want to post stuff about the IDPA club, and Practiscore links and things like that, but also drive some conversation with the shooters. Talk about proposed rule changes, both with IDPA, and things within the club. Get people out shooting at other clubs in your area, post match video, post interesting things from other pages, things like that. One thing I’ve learned about Facebook, is that if you’re constantly just posting links back to the same site (practiscore) Facebook will start showing those posts to less and less people, which isn’t what you want at all. Not sure how your club does it, but you could also use it to put out a call to action for match setup, and as a way to recognize those who help out. Evan:  You've touched on about what makes a great match. But what about what makes a great stage? What tips would you give match directors and stage designers? What should they avoid doing?  Options. Options make a good stage. For instance, the match I shot on Sunday was the Devil Dog USPSA match up in Oxford, NC. Almost every stage had several different ways that made sense to shoot it, and you really had to think about which was the most efficient way to do it. One stage in particular, you started in the far right corner of the shooting area. Most shooters started there, and then worked the stage from

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