Visualization Video from PDN

[Matt In Oklahoma]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bnF1iw6fho&feature=uploademail

This is good stuff and needs to be applied to training and competition. I have said it many times out there when the steel/pins didn't fall but points were given just because someone shoots major caliber or the line safety feels that they got solid hits. I also teach it even when shooting things like bottles and the majority of the bottle still stands after a partial hit. Hit it again.
I have pounded it into my kids, soldiers and students heads as well, that the fight/hunt aint over till they are down permanently wether it's a person or an animal. Rounds are cheap, life is priceless.

[Hawkeye]

This is actually a huge pet peeve of mine. I have seen it a lot in classes, and still do. Far to many people just look at the target as a piece of paper, and engage it with no sense of urgency or seriousness. They seem to have the attitude that , "eh, I'm at the range and this is just a class, if it were real I'd do such and such", etc.... Get serious in your training folks. Treat that target, be it paper, steel, whatever, as the most deadly threat you can imagine and it is hell bent on killing you, you wife, your kids, your friends, your loved ones, innocent people, whatever. Engage it with a purpous, as if your life or others really did depend on it. One day, it may.

[1Admin]

Funny this came up.... Was at a class recently where "realism" is usually stressed in many unorthodox ways by the instructor. We started the class with being choked out, not to a tap but OUT. Luckily I had a little experience with that previously.

Later in the course, we were doing some low platform type stuff using barrels as cover. Standing, then kneeling then modified prone, roll over to other side, shoot that side, to kneeling to standing then drop from standing to modified prone (on gravel, concrete and brass), etc. as part of a drill. I went through 4 mags doing that one and then stopped. People were still shooting a minute or more later, taking their sweet time, getting down really really slowly, etc. . I looked around and thought "no one is IN to this."

Couple minutes later- the instructor says "guys, WTF is this?" he comes up, takes his time, brushes off the ground before going modified prone, etc. He says "This is a FIGHT! Most of you are just PLINKING!"

We did the drill again. I dropped 5 mags this time in almost a continuous string of fire going through all the positions. When I ran out of mags and realized it, I threw my last empty at the target as hard as I could then dropped back behind cover. People were still shooting the drill. I remembered having a couple of loose rounds in my pocket, so I loaded them one by one behind cover and took individual shoots. People were still shooting. Holding my pistol like a club in my left hand I pulled my pocket knife, unfolded it and threw it at the target. Suddenly I hear some laughing behind me. "THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT! You run out of ammo, you throw your damn mags at him!"

Since folks were still shooting I didn't want to bumrush the targets, otherwise the empty pistol would have been a club in my left and I would have been shanking the target with my right and clubbing it with my left.

The instructor was 110% right, people WERE looking at it as "plinking" and not as a FIGHT.

We need to always keep in mind that we are training for a FIGHT when we do stuff like this.

[610Alpha]

Thanks for sharing your recent experience. Train to win!! Won't have to worry about you surviving a conflict. The zombies in your class a different story.:)