This notion of there being some magical difference between competition/range technique and street/tactical technique is largely false, at least in terms of marksmanship and gun handling skill. Any efficient, practiced shooting or handling technique capable of winning in a practical match is probably the most efficient approach to winning elsewhere.
Street/tactical guys perform poorly at organized competition, especially practical shooting events, because they aren’t as skilled as they think they are. Period.
Isolate the motion of a presentation to the target in training to remove unwanted, extraneous, wasteful motion. Once an efficient presentation is learned there, as proven by MEASURABLE improvement to some sort of standard, it can be incorporated with any needed defensive movement. Moving your hips back or other defensive movement or response might be a good idea if it serves a needed purpose. Doing it as a spastic, untrained motion needlessly wastes time.
There are many practical shooting events where “staying rooted” means losing. Movement there is part of the course and rewarded in the score.
http://player.theplatform.com/p/6eFMJC/RqqFgTxaLX4a/select/t_0yH2UGAhwU?autoPlay=true/
The sad thing, in the video the demonstrations of an “isolated draw”… aren’t. While not terrible, there is a good deal of wasted motion and slop typical of a less skillful gun handler. The kind of person that gets low scores in competition because he lacks the practiced, skillful gun handling needed for top performance.
David B. Monier-Williams
Mar 06, 2014 @ 11:46:02
It’s interesting in this little video that the instructor explains why certain movements are necessary before or during the draw. Then the demo shows a man performing those motions ending with a fully extended shooting arm. At touching distances (FBI stats) he’d be long dead killed by the assailant.
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John M. Buol Jr.
Mar 06, 2014 @ 14:27:37
Thanks for confirming why I don’t put much faith in ANYONE claiming to have the best/ideal approach to tactical shooting. Those that do can’t even agree among themselves what and how “proper” tactical training is or how it should be conducted.
The point of my little diatribe was that gun handling skills must first be learned “isolated” and proven on the clock to demonstrate competence. If you can’t consistently produce an acceptably-accurate hit from a quick draw, presentation, reload or whatever while just shooting a single target and purposely removing variables and stress on the range, your gun handling is poor and needs improvement.
You won’t magically become skillful while fighting baddies, terrorists, goblins, ninjas, pirates or zombies, regardless of the lies your favorite instructor has soothed your ego with. For a skillful marksman and gun handler, appropriate defensive movements/positions/stances (whatever you deem them to be…) can be quickly learned. For the under skilled, movement done spasticly is just wasteful and slow. The target and timer is telling you the truth, if you’re willing to listen.
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David B. Monier-Williams
Mar 09, 2014 @ 19:14:21
OK, then it would have been better to demo a person who knows how to shoot at touching distances.
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John M. Buol Jr.
Mar 09, 2014 @ 19:57:19
>> it would have been better to demo a person who knows how to shoot at touching distances
David Kenik, the person in the video linked here, seems to believe that he does know how to this. I guess you disagree. Mr. Kenik apparently doesn’t agree with you because he’s doing something different.
For everyone else, consider this when talk of tactical training is brought up. People claiming expertise in the field can’t agree among themselves what “right” is… except that competition will get you killed, of course.
I say, regardless of the approach/technique chosen, until you put it up to an objective test (accuracy and time standard) and intelligently train, your skill is underdeveloped. Neither you nor Mr. Kenik seem interested in that sort of thing.
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