Excercise: Confidence thru Constant Wrist Cam and Grip Pressure Summary: Build confidence in your grip by shooting tight groups without using a sight picture. The key is constant wrist camming and grip pressure – once set, do not change it with the shot, and then calmly letting recoil happen. Target: Blank piece of paper Rounds:…
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Exercise: Diminishing Dots – Give the Target Its Due Summary: This exercise is another vision “See What You Need to See” honing tool. You might guess, correctly, that we think Seeing What You Need to See is important. Time: 30 minutes Rounds: 100 live, 100 dry Target: Diminishing Dot Start Position: Compressed Imminent Threat, 3 to…
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Exercise: 1″ Dots at Speed Summary: Shoot dots as fast as you can hit them. An exercise for the “speed” portion of a practice. You can try this cold as well from time to time to see where you are on high pressure shooting with no warmup. Rounds: 75 Target: 1″ Dots (https://aug2019.tacticalperformancecenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TPC_1_Inch_Circles_Target.pdf) Time: < 1…
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Exercise: VP 170/100 – See What You Need to See for different targets An exercise improves a fundamental. A drill improves a set of connected skills or fundamentals. This exercise builds up 2 core fundamentals – seeing what you need to see, and deciding as early as you can what you need to see. These…
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Summary: Present at the same speed for hard or easy shots. You will save time you can spend confirming your sight picture and ensuring a hit. Try this on the WB40 exercise. It’s very common when you know you have a tough shot to present the gun slowly. That just wastes time better spent either…
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Summary: A complete “package” for the defensive shooter includes a triad of shooting skill, mindset, and tactical processes. Competition can greatly aid shooting skill without detracting from mindset or tactical skills. In particular, competition will help: your shooting accuracy speed on single and multiple targets, ability to recognize and deal with malfunctions early and…
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Second Purpose of the Grip: Returning to Sight Alignment Ron continues with the Purposes of the Grip. The first was rising with sights aligned. Check out the YouTube video on it. This time he explores the 2nd purpose – “Return to Sight Alignment” Key points: sight alignment is a function of the grip, as is…
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For 2019 we have re-structured our Handgun Mastery Program to have defined skill levels that students can work thru. This is something we’ve been aiming at for about two years (at least). We’ve moved slowly because we wanted to do it right (or as right as we can sort out how to do). Students aren’t…
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