Range rules vs. gunfight rules

lol. Good vid.

We should start a thread on easy training exercises to do when your not shooting at the range. If there are good videos post them up!

I think 90% of practice should be dry. The square range is good for marksmanship...that's necessary but not sufficient. Shooting isn't fighting.

When I'm teaching beginners how to punch, I have them face a target and practice punches so that they can hit what they're aiming at, consistently. Necessary practice to develop skill, but no one would argue that's all you need to be good at fighting.

Stand and deliver shooting is what's needed in some cases, but there's a broad spectrum of skills and techniques that need to be practiced. We make concessions to safety on the range because we have to, and that's ok as long as we know it. Polishing a specific skill it's ok and indeed necessary to eliminate other variables.

In the dojo we practice basics, do different fitness exercises, pad work, impact work, sparring...these are all just aspects of training, not fighting, and each exercise makes concessions to safety. Shooting is the same. We just must do our best to avoid "training scars". The map is not the territory.