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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

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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

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single shot observe if the dot is

returning exactly on the same spot One

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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