02/27/2024
Dear guys, when you are training at the shooting range thinking you are doing something difficult and advanced, you should remember that you are doing it in a kind of environment which is:
- Controlled
- Two-dimensional
- Poor in elements and details
- Ballistically homogeneous
- Normally flat
- With Optimal light conditions
- With Optimal visibility
- In total safety (I hope)
Then you should focus on what you are doing, remembering that even the most advanced protocol you will run it will be based on:
- Pre-known targets
- Pre-Known Actions
- Always one Reactive Stimulus only, which is Pre-Known (beeep)
- Awareness of the imminence of the action
(shooter are you ready?)
- You will always shoot for first
- You will always be the onlyone who shoot
Practically you are training in a kind of environment which is totally different from the real one. Even the most difficult and advanced protocol will be extremely simpler than easier real dynamic, whatever the conditions will be inside the shooting range, they will be much easier than what you will find in the real context and you are doing it by giving a minimum workload to your brain, more simply you send it into vacation.
Yet everybody really like the phrase "train as you fight" which seems to me to be the furthest thing from everything I have described so far.
This is why every time I hear "real scenario" in a shooting range, I always smile. 👊🤙
