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Predictive vs_ Reactive Shooting: Sharpen Your Handgun Skills Now!
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hello TPC viewers today we'll dive deep into the term predictive shooting uh as defined by tactical performance center I'm saying that because there are multiple perceptions these days about what really predictive shooting is many of them can be true but we'll give you the TPC perspective of that term and we'll uh get very into details of the exact process tactical performance center the home of the active shooting signs the second element is seeing what you need to see and this is where the F secret is to never lose track of where the see the red do exist at that same focal plane so I don't have gun and up [Music] Target in brief we Define reactive shooting as the process where the shooter recognizes a good enough sight picture for each follow-up shot based on the acceptable margin of error in other words the size of the target area they aim to hit the shooter visually confirms the required alignment between the front and rear sights if using iron sights or observes the necessary pause of the dot if utilizing a reflex sighting system this visual confirmation serves as the trigger to fire the next shot if needed essentially the shooter reacts to the stimulus of sight picture confirmation the required sight picture May range from perfect alignment and focus to a flash confirmation using the peripheral vision recognizing the top of the slide of the gun in the effective Target area depending on the target's difficulty we Define predictive shooting as the shooter's ability to time and predict when the alignment will be good enough without requiring a physical pause in that alignment imagine a bouncing ball based on the cyclical repetition of its motion you can foresee when the ball will touch the floor similarly if the shooter has developed a consistent grip that ensures the gun's cyclical Behavior under recoil he can predict the moment of side alignment there is one very important thing in order to be successful with a predictive shooting that's to develop a very consistent recoil control and muzzle flip management so the gun will behave exactly the same with every every single shot and as you probably know the TPC philosophy is to have a passive management of The Recoil and passive control of the muzzle flip that means once you establish the grip you set and you forget you're letting the gun to go in the RICO and to settle back by itself we are not doing something proactive that doesn't mean that in a more Dynamic situation you're not going to move with you with your body and you move the shooting platform but the actual grip will stay absolutely passive no the reactive now first principle it's minimizing The Leverage on the gun over us you need to grip the gun simply as high as possible still making the gun function maximize friction so how much pressure to apply with each hand to apply as much pressure as you can until you see your hands start to shake start relaxing that grip until that shake is gone gradually start to relax only the shooting hand until you achieve very easy and fast trigger finger manipulation principle of maximizing the biomechanical efficiency not cracker effect we have the Hench we have the Jaws we have the handles keep that pressure really tight between the heel of the palm and heel of the palm the second part of uh princip of optimizing the biomechanical efficiency when you're talking about the muzzle flip control we simply need to stiffen B thrust the idea is to create an eff of a spring steel there will be a shot there will be a unsignificant muzzle flip up and the gun will return back automatically by itself to that side alignment you setting your grip you setting your wrist tension and at that point your eyes Ling only the movement of your trigger finger everything else stays the same when you're talking about the actual grip that will help you to be less equipment dependent and what is the idea behind if you rely on uh some kind of reactive management every every single time when you change your uh weapon platform or even if you change in the type of ammunition that you use and you change even the the bullet weight those Dynamics they will change your timing will be off if you're passive doesn't matter of the caliber that you're using doesn't matter of the weapon system that you're using the thing is that the grip will stay passive that doesn't mean that you will stay passive as a shooter or as a responder so what we'll do it right now we'll demonstrate a very Progressive layers of multiple isolated drills that for some of you you can call them Basics that can be true or it can be not true depends on your level of perception but the idea is to create that stepbystep process in order to develop that uh complete skill kill predictive shooting why so simple drills because of relatively recent scientific studies they discovered that in order to mate a specific skill better in other words developing that subconscious skill to the level that you're able to perform it correctly without even thinking about it uh you need to break that specific skill in a very small chunks in a very small more details you need to focus in one thing at a time and each and every drill will emphasize that very narrow Focus all right now what we have here is the TPC Target that we call the cross of truth that particular uh version is designed to be shot from a distance of seven yards and that's the distance that will condu all our uh segmented drills uh I will explain the exercise uh and I'll talk it through and then gradually we'll build and we'll add an element and then we'll add another element and then we'll change the Target in order to get us where we want to be you can download that Target uh from the TPC website tactical performance center.com and we will post the link to the Target in the description below so you will find all the targets that we'll use in our uh drill series here so you can uh try it by yourself and please share with us what do you think about that progression and if that progression actually LED you to your success of predictive shooting obviously I'll will load my gun the first real will be again we want to achieve that very very cyclical behavior of the gun so I will place my Red Dot in that situation or if you're using iron sides your front side that will be perfectly aligned with your rear side Notch you will place it in the very uh Center of that cros here and you will observe the behavior of the gun during The Recoil and will simply you will keep a consistent pressure on the grip stay absolutely passive let the gun recoils and let it settles by itself back whenever it stops it stops now You observe where are your sights on that the Crosshair reference if they are returning exactly in the center that means that you're doing everything all right but if they are returning in a different area in reference of that cross hair we are going to use the TPC reactive shooting ER chart to Define what are our deficiency in our grip or stance or even in the trigger control if the sides recover high after The Recoil there are two possible reasons first your center of gravity may not be forward enough try leaning slightly forward second it could be due to insufficient rest stiffness focus on stiffening your rest more they will naturally recover the gun back to alignment if the sides recover inconsistently or erratically it's likely due to grip pressure in this case focus on gripping the gun harder and maintaining consistent pressure if the sides deep down after The Recoil it's caused by anticipation allow the gun to settle back into alignment Naturally by by accepting the Reco instead of trying to control it prematurely finally if your hiits are low and left for right-handed shers this indicates poor trigger control focus on isolating the movement of your trigger finger and pull the trigger with less effort so I will place in that case my Red Dot exactly in the middle of that light gray spot on that in the middle of the Crosshair I'll prep the trigger I will break that shot and I'll observe where is that red dot where that where that red dot is returning is it staying is it returning exactly in that same spot in the center of the Cross here or it's inconsistent and that particular case it jump and settles back exactly in the center I will repeat that exercise again place the right do there prep the trigger let the sh happen is it returning exactly there yes we repeat it again yeah it lands exactly in that same spot why because I'm keeping very consistent pressure and I'm not trying to drive the gun down I simply wait until the gun settles by itself if I keep my wrist stiffened it will settle right there now if it's a very inconsistent return it returns to the left it's returning next time to the right and back and forth and back and forth that's a clear indication that your grip pressure it's not enough increase the grip pressure especially with your control hand that's the hand that many uh people call support we call it controlled because because most of the control of a good grip will be defined by your control hand so I'll repeat the drill one more time and I observe my sides lifts and settles down exactly where it's supposed to be right so that's exercise number one the second drill the second exercise will be exactly the same thing but now we'll start from the holster why because most likely we'll go from The holster so with this exercise we'll test how well can we replicate can we form the correct grip right from the holster and the behavior of the gun will tell us the story so we're observing the Red Dot again a single shot observe where that dot is returning or where that front sight will return is it returning exactly in the middle of that cross here without your micro steering it you know you just let the gun to do its own thing and settles down by itself it's returning right there now repeat that uh exercise several more times just to make sure that we are consistent [Applause] single shot observe if the dot is returning exactly on the same spot One More Time same spot great so I'm satisfied with the consistency of the my performance my technical performance from The holster now we will continue with the next exercise and the next exercise size will be exactly the same thing we'll draw from the h we'll find a shot and as we confirm that the Sid will settle exactly in the center we will fire the second shot now here we can do a homework and the homework is we can prep we can reset we definitely need to reset and we can prep the trigger that means taking the slack if it's necessary to the wall if you prefer to use the prep press technique of few trigger but as soon as you confirm a a good sides a red dot or a line iron sides in the center you can fire the second shot and observe again where these sides will return back are they going to keep that cyclical Behavior if they doesn't that means that you've changed something most likely in your grip right the idea is to be very repetitive very repetitive why because it will be very easy to predict we'll start from the holster place it in center and if once they settle back I will fire my second shot I'm confirming I'm confirming that the sides or the Red Dot it settles back in that spot especially when you're shooting a red dot you need to look at that tight spot here it's a great reference because that's the the light gray area of that crossair let's do it [Applause] again I confirm the sides I'll do it a little bit slower in order to emphasize the process and we'll talk through the process so draw from The holster prep the trigger I will break that shot I will see the side sets back and will fire the next shot and I will observe and control if the sides are returning back to that same spot now it's time to really develop the predictive shooting the next drill will do exactly the same thing but instead of waiting and to visually confirm the return of the sides to the same spot we will predict it and we time will time the Red Dot or the front side to the point that it will it's about time to get level with the rear side note or it's about time that red dot to enter uh that uh light gray spot and here we need to make a little difference between shooting iron sights and the Red Dot now with the when you're using a red dot sides I need to look in a very very very very tight spot in that gray area light gray area over there and your peripheral vision actually will process the movement of the dot as a streak because the dot is not going to be steady now instead of waiting to see a a SLE dot a steady dot you will see that streak coming back down to that same spot and you will predict at what point that dot that streak is about to touch that gray area without visually confirming so that's why we call it predictive you'll predict when the sides will go back to alignment without actually visually confirming that so we'll do that right now we'll start from the draw all right so what I did here you see how my Second Shop dropped a little bit down you know why because I uh I didn't stay absolutely passive I didn't wait and let the gun to settle back down I drove the gun a little bit down so that's the error that's the mistake of made now the mistake is not a failure if you recognized what's happened what was the problem and you have the knowledge and narrow your focus to fix it in a flight all right now at that point I stayed absolutely passive I'm looking at that tight spot the light gray area and I predicted at what point that streak is about to couch that light gray spot we'll do it one more time [Applause] all right so uh the next Target that we're going to use that's uh 2 in dots and we'll do the same process we follow the same process of predictive shoting but right now instead of a cross here as a reference actually we have a actual Target we have acceptable margin of error 2 in 7 yards and the idea to keep the targets a little bit smaller it's uh the target to keep you're honest guys you know even a slight problem and uh inconsistency of your grip uh the paper will show that immediately so the idea is to work and microtune whatever it's necessary uh in order to achieve that final goal of a very consistent and cyclical behavior of the gun think about uh the grip as a gun Vice once you clamp the gun in that Vice doesn't care if the G shoot how many shots will do it stays it provides the same consistent pressure and no reaction that will simplify our process and ability to predict the second shot all right now we have that 2in dots the first row at the top you have that reference point of the light gray area that's exactly where I need to keep my focus on when I having that control pair using the predictive [Applause] shooting and I'll draw again again I'm going to use that predictive shooting that means I will time I will predict when that streak is about to enter the uh the 2in dot I particularly looking in that light gray spot that it's significantly tighter area that the entire Target the concept is aim small this small you need to have a narrower point of focus especially important when you're using a red dot you keep a Target Focus I keep my focus over there on that light gray dot don't get me wrong my goal is to place my shots within the 2in circle but again that's a a smaller reference point so even if there's a a little bit of a margin of every I still will be on [Applause] target all right and now at the moment that you're comfortable with your performance now it's a good time to actually use a little bit metric so you can time you can time your draw and you can time the splits between the shots uh in order to have a metric and in order to follow your progress in the future now a good reference point is probably about uh 1 and a half second or in that margin and what about the split between the two shots we'll say that everything that it's under three it's a it's a very very uh commendable result if you want to increase the speed uh the only thing that you need to do is passively to stiffen your wrists a little bit more be just a little bit more aware about that passivity and uh that will guarantee that the gun will get back to sight alignment faster and you simply need to time that second shot a little bit [Applause] faster all right so total time 2 seconds flat 1.65 it was the first shot now I'm using a double x for a shot and also retention holster so I need to fight two obstacles here I'm just joking you know the process is the process it doesn't matter uh and the the split time is 35 hundreds of a second between the first and the second shot which is pretty pretty pretty decent uh pretty decent result how you're going to use your iron sides in that um in that perspective it depends uh if you're comfortable to shoot with a Target Focus uh absolutely go with it not a problem uh but the target is a little bit tiny it's a 2in circle and seven yards so probably you need a little bit more precise reference uh between the front side and the rear side Notch until they get back to alignment so don't hesitate to move your Focus Shift your focus back a little bit in order to get a good information from your site alignment so it's a very very personal based on what the vision can tell you and how the brain will process that visual input it's time to make the things even more interesting so what we're going to do right now guys we have a new TPC challenge for you and that's the uh hammer time [Music] 2.0 Hammer Time 2.0 distance 7 yd from the target starting position handgun loaded and holstered hands relaxed at your sides action at the audible signal from the timer draw the handgun and engage all four targets with a controlled pair Two Shots each start with the target of your choice makeup shots are not allowed scoring the overall time recorded from the start signal to the last shot fired penalties shots must be within or break the 2-in dot line to avoid penalties if a shot breaks the light gray Circle but not the 2-in dot line a penalty of25 seconds per hit will be added to the overall time complete misses incur a 2.5 second penalty for each Miss shot objective draw fire first shot speed controlled pair execution all right now the things are getting more complex and more complicated it's a great opportunity to use the predictive shooting here we have a pretty spicy time so in order to achieve the highest run run Master uh it's a 4.3 seconds for eight shots and draw from The holster control pair uh of each Target from a distance of seven yards let's give it a try let's see that's uh it's a hard challenge but uh if you stay focused on the process and you don't let a uh a thought about speed to sneak in your mind stay absolutely on the moment present and just execute the process correctly that will guarantee uh a very good and reasonable time because we're not forcing the speed we're achieving the speed through efficiency so here very critical is how fast the eyes will snap to the next Target and particularly in a invisible but mental smaller Target that will create remember the reference with the light gray dot inside of that 2in dots there now it's your responsibility to create that mental image on each of those targets all right time is uh 469 so it's not it's not perfect but uh it's not bad it's not bad like a very uh few times actually I tried that exercise we a little bit far from grandm but all right guys the that was the uh hammertime 2.0 that's the newest TPC challenge you have hopefully predictive way of shooting those control pairs the time I'm a little bit overtime from a grandm so it's a 4.69 grandm I truly believe we need to be in 4.30 and uh my first shot was a little bit late and the reason of that is my red dot didn't arrive exactly where it needs to be so I needed to micro adjust it but I'm happy that I stayed mentally calm and I didn't fire that shot without confirming what I need to to see inside of that Target area uh from there so 175 first shot that we keep um 47 split between the first shot 40.4 transition to the next Target 43 with the split between the third and the fourth shot then we had another transition to the top Point 39 hundreds of a second and then we have the split between the shots uh 43 so pretty consistent splits then we had another transition from right to left for 4 545 and the last split was 46 so pretty much uh In Cadence but something that you need to understand is a Cadence driven not by acoustic input it's a c Cadence based on what you see on the target so it's completely visual that's one of the greatest misconceptions when Shooters start to talk about shooting in Cadence multiple targets so uh try the serious of that micro drills and at the very end try our new challenge the uh hammertime 2.0 and let us know how you did don't hesitate to post in the comments below if you have other questions related to predictive shooting and what is the difference between predictive shooting and reactive shooting and do you agree with our definition for both terms we will be glad to hear your opinions till then stay stay safe shoot straight and remember more hot kills less cool gear if you like the video visit the online training page on our website or check the calendar section to sign up for our in-person courses please don't forget to like share and subscribe [Music]
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