One of the most important and sometimes neglected areas of people owning and/or using firearms is training and practice.
Training references to learning and adapting a new skill or action then taking that training and putting it into practice and applying the
learned skill or action.
Throughout all of history, there always seem to be uncertain with whatever is going on in the world at that time. Our current times is not an exception.
Since it's not possible to predict when something bad may happen, the best next thing we can do is prepare ourselves as best we can for the situation of
when something bad does happen.
One of the biggest hurdles to overcome for training and practice is time. Not to mention where and how. Admittedly, going to a range
and doing active drills with live fire is the best way to practice once you've obtained the training or to get some new training. Unfortunately, it is
not always possible to go to the range and find the time for lengthy training or practice sessions.
A way to over come this limitation is using the micro-time-slice management approach.
Using the micro-time management approach, it's all about selected tiny moments of time in your life and create opportunities to learn new training subjects or
practice what you've learned. How do you identify opportunities? Here are a few examples of finding opportunities:
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Take a moment right before making dinner. You're already up and moving.
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During commercial breaks while watching a show on the television.
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Spend a couple of minutes as you're getting ready for bed for the evening.
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This one sounds crazy, but while you're doing your business in the restroom is a great oppourtunity for some trigger time.
As you can see, it is possible with a little imagination and creativity you can find moments in life that will allow you the ability to do
some types of training and/or practice.
You may be thinking to yourself... How can doing micro-time-slice management like that be beneficial?
To answer that question let me give you a small back story of where this concept originated. As a musician when trying to learn new drum beats,
especially complicated rhythums, it was discovered that doing short bursts of learning things and then walking away from the drumset for a while and getting
my mind to concentrate on other things seemed to allow the brain to process the information and retain it better. Then, going back to the drums and playing what
I just learned then adding to it and repeating the process worked wonders. This technique was applied to doing firearms training and practice and the results
where the same. Bad habits were able to eliminated quickly, new skills were retained faster, accuracy of skills improved, going from doing a skill slowly to
quickly happened more quickly. For full disclouser, remember we all still learn at our own pace but regardless of your pace the principles still apply.
As you can see, the micro-time-slice management approach is about finding small moments of time throughout and within your standard life's day to do quick
training activities or practice your training. Of course, you'd still need to go to a range and do some full scale training and live fire exercises.
These techniques will help so that you're not starting from scratch when there are long time periods between range trips.
Here are some of the training & practice topics cover in classes:
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The 6 elements of Shooting.
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Natural point of aim.
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Cover vs. Concealment.
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Dry fire exercises and benefits.
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Shooting Stances and when to use which one.
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Selecting the right ammunition.
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Accuracy vs. Precision.
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Improve trigger control.
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Common sense home & personal defense.
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Conceal & Carry mindset
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Draw, Aim, Fire.
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What to do and how to act at the range.
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Firearms as a tool.
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Drills and their benefits.
