Mike Gonsalves

Okay.

But yeah, that competitive nature in me gets there, but I love it.

I absolutely love it for the training tool that it is because when I kind of fell out of shooting and competing about, what, three years, four years ago, after my back surgery, I can't even remember how long, regardless, I was in too much pain to...

I DQ'd it out of a match because I was in so much pain I wasn't paying attention.

And that, you know, totally fair.

It's cool.

And then I just kind of fell out of it after that because I was like, nope, it's not worth it to go shoot another match in pain.

It's not worth it to DQ again.

Like, I'll just wait till I'm healed.

And then, you know, life turned into life and years passed.

So, you know...

Getting back into it, I have always shot with one eye closed.

Even when people talk about how both eyes open as faster, I just could not figure it out because my eyes just don't understand that.

So a year and a half ago when I got the Ace, shooting with one eye closed in a VR headset feels weird.

Um, so I started to keep that eye open.

And then as I started to keep that eye open, I started getting faster and faster in certain stages, certain stages.

I thought I'd already maxed out in like maxed out my personal.

And then suddenly I had both eyes open and I'm just banging through it.

then I started to learn that competing can really be kind of like a dance.

You just have to do the steps, right.