YouTube Transcript:
World Champ Ben Stoeger Breaks Down Predictive Vs Reactive Shooting from his “Skills N Drills” Class

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I'll make an example for you a couple of
them and then we will we will
chat
okay so I gave you a few examples
there the first example I would noo it
immediately
why yeah it was not it was not the pace
I want you to shoot so what we want to
do here is flip over and do reactive
shooting which which means every time I
see the site where I want so I just that
red dot flashes down back onto that
White Spot I'm staring it I react
immediately pull the trigger and send
that shot now the first example I gave
you that's what a lot of people want to
do is where they'll shoot the gun comes
down they settle the site make
everything look perfect pull the trigger
super carefully and then shoot try to
shoot as accurately as they can it's not
what I'm asking you to do I'm asking you
to shoot reacting to the site
immediately does that make sense to
everybody
all right now previously when we were
shooting doubles I would call that
predictive shooting meaning we're
shooting so fast you cannot see the site
come down for the second shot React to
what you're seeing and pull the trigger
like it's too it's happening too fast
all right you cannot consciously react
does everybody agree with that now why
would we shoot that
way get two on the target
is yeah right so yeah it is faster for
sure somebody says selfdefense yes like
a lot of times guys shoot very quickly
in those situations and for competitive
shooting you yeah you have to shoot that
fast um the reality is predictive
shooting like that is a very very good
Training tool like when you shoot really
aggressively you see what's happening
much much sooner is that fair to say
yeah that's why we started with that now
if you're I mean this is a competitive
shooting class as you went through that
drill you'd get some idea of what your
capabilities are how many of you would
feel comfortable doing aggressive
predictive shooting in a match or a
scored setting from this red line I
would say yeah the whole group probably
and then what about the Blue Line in the
back that would be like yes for most
guys are like ah I don't love that
anymore exactly that's why you go
through that so you understand what your
capabilities are and it's like when you
look at whatever the shooting scenario
is you know what you can do I'm totally
comfortable with you pushing past what
you're push past what you're capable of
and be like oh okay that wasn't good
like that's fine like maybe you run out
of steam 10 yards further back that's
fine too the predictive shooting is a
very very good Training tool so you can
learn how to shoot better like I said
and now we're flipping on to reactive
shooting Okay now what's going to go
wrong with reactive
shooting same [ __ ] exactly the same [ __ ]
yeah stare at the site they ride them up
you flex your hand or push down on the
gun they're going to go left low low
left whatever it's the same the same
stuff will be wrong this is again this
is why we started doing the predictive
shooting like way faster you can see it
way
easier right yes
sir your split time between predictive
and
reactive is there like a a fair
percentage what what it should be I
don't know about percentage but I'll say
um like let's say you shoot 15 16 yeah I
would say there's no way that that's
reactive so no no way that's your
predictive speed let's say let's say 15
16 split don't it won't it won't really
work out cleanly like that because it's
like depending on the this the gun
you're shooting and how fast your finger
is like there's some guys that just have
very fast fingers and or guns with very
little travel so they can essentially
like bump fire the gun and get it to
shoot very quickly um I would say
reactive shooting is like a quarter of a
second a third of a second it'll look
more like that and that'll and it that's
not dependent on how fast you shoot the
predictive shooting does that make sense
like they're they're not really
connected in that
way is a good
that' be that'd be pretty quick and if
you're we watching what I was just
doing uh I think these splits are right
in
that yeah these were a third of a second
third
yeah anyway does that make sense to
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everybody