Today: Shooting and moving is one of the hardest things to train. I know you don’t have access to a training facility most of the time, taking classes is not always viable (cost, time, and locations), and shooting a local match just isn’t the same thing. Here is where you can start training yourself to shoot and move. This is how you can start learning how to bust off the X in a fight.
This is a simple crawl/walk/run method. Start at the very beginning and go slowly. I know you have been shooting for a long time and are ready to jump right in! I feel you… I’m the same way. But doing this without going through all the steps in dangerous. You need to go slowly, start at the crawl part, and move forward one step at a time slowly.
The reason most people don’t teach this method is twofold: 1 – It can be dangerous and people get over-excited and try to go too fast and hurt themselves or someone else. Go slow! 2- This is hard. It takes some time, effort, and work to be able to get it. With a coach sitting there showing and teaching you, it’s really more like a parlor trick.
I am peeling back the curtain and showing you how to start from the very beginning and go forward. To do these techniques you need some basic understanding of how to draw and shoot the gun safely and actually be able to hit the target.
Listen to the podcast, take notes, and go step by step and you can learn to shoot and move at home.
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt
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Getting off the X I first heard from James Yeager years before he was an internet star
Movement is life
Either Shoot and Move like I’m telling you too or learn to move then shoot like most instructors teach. And, in the words of Paul Carlson, use “real-world movement.” Don’t just take a half step on the range.
Shoot/Move/Communicate is bull and doesn’t work, don't worry about it
How to Learn – The best way is from an instructor. Check out these other two:
Craw/Walk/Run Method – Little steps at a time moving really slow at the beginning
Crawl: Learn to draw the gun facing different directions
Walk: Practice new shooting positions at the range
Then back home to practice drawing into the shooting position you refined at the range
Run: Draw the gun while moving and shoot while moving
Smooth is fast – Fast is smooth: Be as smooth and as slow as possible to start with
The easier thing: Move and then stop, then shoot
Moving While Shooting vs Moving then Shooting
Last Thought: Move with a purpose
Thanks for listening, don’t forget to check out the Shooter’s Club, and if you need ammo check out Lucky Gunner.
Stay Safe,
Ben