Journals.

[GreenSteve]

Guess i`m a
Concious - Incompetent
hmm yup that fits

[Big Boy Blue]

I am most definately Conscious - Incompetent. I still have far to much to learn and being conscious just makes me far more aware of what I don't know. Still onwards and upwards.

[LineCutter]

Can I be partly consciously incompetent & partially unconsciously competent?

I know why it goes wrong (after the event), but when it goes right I have no idea how I did it right (such that I can consciously do it again).

Ultimately this is the problem in simplifying a question about a multi-stage, multi-dimensional skill into a small set of categories. I'm really torn between labelling myself as any of these (but will happily do it for something well defined, hand position on the grip for example).

[geoffretired]

Line Cutter, a very interesting comment.

I know why it goes wrong (after the event), but when it goes right I have no idea how I did it right (such that I can consciously do it again).

After the event, you know why it went wrong. Can you avoid letting it go wrong that way again?
When "it" goes right; is that the bit that happens subconsciously?If it is, should you need to know how to do it again? I think trusting the technique comes into this somewhere.

[Old Bloke]

Having been in the unconscious - competent stage in the past, and now getting back into the shooting thing, I find I am conscious - competent. I feel that it will take approx' a year of hard training coupled with success against those I want to better to get back in to the unconscious - competent level. It might even take two years. Eugh! Let me start Local, then Regional and then National. Yup, probably two years if I ain't foolin' myself. Sigh.

[LineCutter]

Originally Posted by geoffretired

Line Cutter, a very interesting comment.
After the event, you know why it went wrong. Can you avoid letting it go wrong that way again?
When "it" goes right; is that the bit that happens subconsciously?If it is, should you need to know how to do it again? I think trusting the technique comes into this somewhere.

To continue the gross simplification:
When I know what I've done wrong I've been conscious of the shot & therefore of doing something I shouldn't have (why is it always after the event? -'cos I come down & restart otherwise). When I don't know what I'm doing (!) the conscious part stays out of the shot & the result is much better.