Andy Dang

🚨 Big changes coming to Rooftop Shooting Academy. We’ve officially retired Fundamental Foundations 101 & 102 and replaced them with something better — the Performance Pistol series. Here’s why we made the switch 👇 FF101 and FF102 were full 8-hour days covering a wide range of skills back to back. We heard the feedback — long days are a lot to commit to, and the numbered format made people feel like they had to start at the beginning even if they were already comfortable with the basics. So we broke it up. Performance Pistol is four standalone 4-hour classes, each focused on a specific skill set: 🎯 Core Fundamentals — grip, vision, trigger control, draw & reloads ⚡ Skills for Speed & Accuracy — transitions, aiming schemes, shotcalling 🏃 Mechanics of Movement — positioning, entries, exits, sectors of fire 💨 Dynamic Shooting — shooting on the move, dynamic stage application No prerequisites. No required order. You pick the class that fits where you are right now and what you want to work on. Come for one, come for all four — it’s up to you. All classes are taught by @ipsc_scholar — USPSA Master class competitor and one of the most technical instructors in the game. 4 hours. $150. 9am–1pm. Limited to 12 students per class. Classes are now live on the website — 📍 Rooftop Shooting Range — Trenton, TX #RooftopShootingAcademy #PerformancePistol

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@danggoodshootinglab LLC is hard launched 🚀 Through it I provide performance shooting instruction, private lessons, match footage review, personal coaching, and much more to come. Over the years I’ve taken classes from many of the best, more than most would want to do. Each one wasn’t just for my skill development but also to see unique perspectives, styles, and teaching methodologies from different instructors. The synthesis of these takeaways can be summed up in one word: experimentation. High performance principles can be attained in many ways, as no combination of body, mind, and equipment are the same. Nor is shooting knowledge processed and understood the same way across different people. I think it’s important to explore and always pursue for what’s greater, because the ones at the top don’t see a final destination. They keep climbing. DGSL’s philosophy is about developing skill through discovery, refinement, and discipline. Being constantly critical and rigorous in training is non-negotiable. It is no easy path to navigate and I’m more than happy to be your guide. Whenever you’re ready, see me in the lab. We need to cook.

Theme of this final practice and equipment verification before Free State Shotgun this weekend: don’t break @r3stl3ssr3dn3ck ‘s sticks 😆 which I did not. Good luck to everyone at BELT! I’ll be there to staff on Sunday 😃 Recent focus was on building a strong mount and stance during entries. Some breakthroughs with pistol transitions translated nicely into shotgun transitions, thus preventing excessive mangling of target sticks (and overdriven shots which I guess are also important) Had a bunch of bum buckshot and slugs to run through so positioning exercises on close and mid-range paper was on the menu. A simple setup of three targets is all you need sometimes. No-shoot partial to work on offsets. Under-confirming on open paper is really tempting. It is far better to use confirmation 3 on a lot of these targets with a tube-fed Up until the higher limits of mid distance, most slugs have good enough POI. Had some Remington sluggers and Rio low recoil slugs to spare. Rio slugs apparently don’t have detaching wads which made shot confidence higher. They work just fine despite their reputation but I’d have to evaluate them at further distances. Using the sluggers (and by extension Federal Truball, which is similar) made me second question a shot here or there because the wad hole could easily pass as the slug itself Apparently, this M2 also hates 3 inch hulls. Malfs are good opportunities to see how you physically and emotionally react @rooftopshootingrangetx @rooftopshootingacademy @thecolonyscheels @texasscheelsoutdoors @sendthebill_ (Evans Properties) @resultswithcodyc @macsdfw code “RSR” @lonestarordnancecompany @challengetargets code “ROOFTOP”

This is our home time to make it yours! @rooftopshootingrangetx @thecolonyscheels @texasscheelsoutdoors @sendthebill_ (Evans Properties) resultswithcodyc @macsdfw code "RSR" @lonestarordnancecompany @challengetargets code "ROOFTOP"

DAAAANG, OKAY! There's a reason the Rooftop Shooting Team has a reputation and this right here is proof in the pudding. 23k Rounds + 1 MACS+ Detail later, we got this Shadow 2 ready for another 20k! (Psspt - please just come back for a field strip every couple thousand, our thumbs hurt now.) Code: RSR to save $25 at Cleanmyguns.com when you book $100+ #MACSMobileGunCare #rooftopshootingrange #rooftopshootingacademy #Cleanmyguns

At Rooftop Shooting Academy, we listen. Student feedback drove this change and we’re proud of that. The message we kept hearing was consistent: eight hours is a lot to absorb in a single day. Too much information, too much time on the range in the Texas heat, and by the end of it, students were running on fumes instead of reps. So Andy restructured. The Performance Pistol series is built around focused four-hour blocks with a lower barrier to entry, more digestible content, and conditions that actually allow you to walk away having retained what you came to learn. The old numbered structure meant you had to take a 101 before you could touch a 102. That’s gone. The Performance Pistol series is built around where you are, not a checklist. Core Fundamentals — A principles-first approach built around grip, vision, and trigger control that gives you a repeatable process and the foundation every higher-level skill depends on. Skills for Speed and Accuracy — Learn to engage multiple targets at high speed, push your accuracy on difficult shots, and modulate your performance on demand. Mechanics of Movement and Positioning — Covers how to move with intent, enter and exit positions explosively, and control your sectors of fire with precision. Dynamic Shooting — Brings fundamentals and movement together simultaneously, teaching you how to maintain accuracy while in motion and blend entries and exits with active shooting. Step into the class that matches where you are. If advanced work exposes a gap in your foundation, come back to Core Fundamentals — no starting over, no wasted time. Four focused hours. No prerequisites. Just deliberate, structured training built around how people actually get better. Visit to register.

@mapsa_mn had some cleverly designed medium courses, some that were on the lower end of round count that could pass for short courses. Low to medium hit factors with a good amount of movement and target distance. Great balance of speed and accuracy here where reward and punishment are doled out proportionately with makeup shots and dropped points. With a healthy amount of target variety, less dense arrays, open-ended plans, movement opportunities, and positional challenges, short and medium courses can be extremely fun as these were Screw Allen (@faust9057 ) for this fast 4 yard no shoot swinger 😆 2 alphas on it, but then a dumb close mike into tux hardcover 🥲 — Apparent problems on partials can manifest as “acceptable outcomes” on open targets. Movement-induced drag offs on partials are AC/CD on open paper. Visual drift on a tux is an open AC line breaker or 2C (@ricochet_scott wants to make 2C = “chippy chappy” a thing, so start calling them that 😆). It’s easy to conclude that scored errors and dropped points on partials means one should practice on them more and that’s fine, but really one should consider what process is failing or breaking on partials because likely it is occurring on open paper too I acknowledge that partials could require mental shifts which often translate to changing skill application, but an intentional shift that helps you stay focused and engage with consistent structure and appropriate strategy is different from one derived from pressure or performance anxiety and takes you off process or causes poor skill deployment — @rooftopshootingrangetx @rooftopshootingacademy @thecolonyscheels @texasscheelsoutdoors @sendthebill_ @resultswithcodyc @macsdfw code “RSR” @lonestarordnancecompany @challengetargets code “ROOFTOP”

Northwoods Showdown is the only one of my “Triple Crown” must-go USPSA matches I could attend this year, as Dragon’s Cup and Space City are not happening, and it proves once again why it earned that status in my book @mapsa_mn is in good hands with men like @tanfo_timmy and @faust9057 at its helm. This year’s flavor favored smaller scale stages but with more technicality in the blending, positioning, and targets which made it very enjoyable. While this was done in response to last year’s massive stages, I feel Northwoods can find a good balance of stage types, number, and size while maintaining its difficulty and variety of technicality We got through 10 stages in five hours with only one major backup compounded on the last three stages. Now that they know how these smaller stages I wouldn’t mind two or three more 👀 extra short courses never hurt anybody. I heard next year might add some interesting props and scenarios too 🔥 I look forward to next time as I always do 🎥: @alawnmower99999 🤝 — I came away 6th in CO and a little moolah. Three simple but impactful mistakes on two stages alone shorted me a few hundred $$$ and a chunk of match percentage 🥲 After NTX sectional, my main focus at Northwoods was to let it happen instead of forcing it or taking risk. This way I can better pinpoint the issues in consistency and execution and isolate strategy out of the equation. For better or worse, I found a lot of issues and ways to look at them Biggest surprise was that even with a bunch of issues per stage my times were more than sufficient to match the super-squad-worthy gamer @benegelston_mn , indicating my baseline speed and the offseason changes I’ve made in technique and stage approach are validated. In that respect, I can afford to spend a little more on confirmation and know that the feelings it entails is right on schedule. It’s good to have someone like him as a metric A few of the decent ones. AC on stage 9 pendulum swinger, first time I’ve seen one. Luke burned down stage 4. Lots of ways to run stage 3 but I had this one in my head; a few efficiency issues here and there

The rest of what I got from NTX sectional. Painfully average, but one run was particularly patriotic so therefore my citizenship is secured for eternity Feat. @juhengrui hard at work, @mauvin_ BTS content, the best banh mi carefully put together by me, anti metric unit sentiment, and looking like I’m about to go full Karen on @ground_floor_korean This one’s for you @jerry_pewpew as requested

Great times playing in the rain and mud with the Oklahoma super squad. I love not feeling my hands when I shoot 🥶 dedicated cold-weather training is in order Big thanks to @lake_forest_psc for a great match, congrats to @asianluke_shoots on his debut as range master (hope you’re not too traumatized 🥲), and @jenntangshoots for the superior match lunch 🎥: ya boi @mauvin_ full time — A few bright spots. Mental and visual processing has reached a new threshold and it feels even slower than before, due mostly to new structural and mobility changes. Learning to trust these new feelings Somehow no deltas this match, but more mikes than I care for. If anything the mikes make it very obvious what the issue was. Half were grip/trigger control into hardcover, one was recoil management, the rest were visual Credit to @sendthebill_ for this plan on stage 4 (also his first major 👏) Taking the left steels after a step over saved a couple big transitions and made the later entries easier. Looking for these planning decisions was a point of focus strategy-wise after watching @dzshooting video I was sad stage 10 got thrown out as it was the rebound I needed after a morning of average performances. The distant shooting and technical stages on the new bays are excellent — Lately I’ve been reconceptualizing certain firing hand pressures differently. My groupings tighten up significantly when I apply those specific pressures. I seem to have the opposite problem of most people, in that my firing hand does not do enough. You can put as much support hand pressure that you want but if it has nothing to balance it from the other side then it’s less effective. Moreover, it doesn’t necessarily come from squeezing the whole hand, but rather positioning and engaging for better leverage and balancing TLDR: if adding firing hand pressures increases performance without slowing down trigger speed or causing errant shots then don’t be afraid to do it

Huge thank you to everyone who came out for today’s sold-out Practice Day & Office Hours with Instructor Andy Dang @ipsc_scholar ! 🙏 Stage runs, multiple reps, and immediate feedback… this is where you figure out what actually needs work. We hope you walked away with clear direction and something to focus on. What do you want to see more of in future sessions? Drop your feedback below or DM us.