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0:00Today on American Outlaw, we have a
0:02special guest. He's going to show you
0:04the six CQB drills you need to master
0:07before you ever enter a CQB kill house.
0:11This is my buddy Phil. Phil, thanks for
0:13coming on the show, bro.
0:14No problem, brother.
0:15Hey, tell everybody who you are, what
0:17you do, why you're here.
0:18Yeah, so uh spent eight years in the
0:20Navy, did some time with the SEAL teams.
0:22I was a sniper. We're going to be
0:23talking about CQB drills that we can do
0:26on a flat range so that we can kind of
0:28get more comfortable with it before we
0:30actually enter our house, start doing
0:31sim, four on four, stuff like that.
0:33Yeah. So, I I figure if you're going to
0:35learn, you want to learn from from the
0:36best. And um we know that the team guys
0:39are some of the best that the country
0:41has to offer. And uh so it's it's really
0:43cool getting to hang out with them. It's
0:45really cool getting to see, you know,
0:47currently what things are doing. You
0:48know, war changes and TTPs change. And
0:52so it's nice to see somebody who's just
0:54now getting out starting their own
0:56business. What's what's your business?
0:57Yeah. So we do a lot of uh firearms
0:59instruction. And basically we start at
1:02that beginner level. We work to the
1:04intermediates and then we do some more
1:05of the advanced side of things. This
1:07tends to get into the more advanced
1:08side, but we want to break it down
1:10starting with the beginning baseline
1:12methods of shooting in a CQB situation,
1:15if you want to call it that. So these
1:16drills aren't anything super fancy.
1:18We're talking more about shooting in a
1:21situation where it would present itself
1:22to us in a structure, right? And we're
1:25going to go live fire on the range
1:26today. You can do this on your flat
1:27range. You can do it with Mantis. You
1:29can do it with Sims, uh, UTM, whatever
1:31you have access to. But this builds a
1:33baseline so that when you go and you
1:35take a course, you feel more comfortable
1:36with kind of that shooting and moving
1:38through a structure. This is for most
1:41people who are flat range people.
1:43Everything that we're about to show you
1:45is very advanced. So, beginning for for
1:50shooters that have done this a long
1:51time, but for most of you, I think
1:53you're going to be unbelievably
1:54surprised. So, stick around to the very
1:56end for the six CQB drills you must
1:59master before you enter a kill house.
2:02You can see we've set this up. This is
2:05any flat range that you can get to where
2:07you're allowed to shoot and move on it
2:08like we have out here. These are
2:10creating faux walls, right? Not
2:12everybody has access to a kill house.
2:14So, in order to do these drills safely,
2:17we got a place with the burm in the
2:18background. We built basically target
2:21walls. Here's our door jambs. Pretend
2:24these are in for infinity, right? So,
2:26the drills are going to be based off of
2:27what we create here. So, the purpose of
2:29this drill, what we tend to see is when
2:31we're doing that lateral movement, so
2:33what we would call the pie in the door,
2:35we don't get a lot of practice with that
2:37movement with that low modified low
2:39ready into a shot. Bam. Bam. And we keep
2:42moving through. So, my body position is
2:45a little bit different than if I was
2:46standing just on a standard flat range
2:48shooting like this. Everything's squared
2:50up is how I normally do it. If I'm going
2:52to start walking a door, my body
2:54position is completely different. So, I
2:56got a little bit more of a blade to try
2:58to minimize exposure to anything that's
3:00in that room. And as I'm moving, the gun
3:02is not on the sights. It's at that
3:03modified load. There's a target. I can
3:05shoot from here. Now, I'm coming back
3:06down. As I continue my scan, the body
3:08position is going to change depending on
3:11what we see inside of the room and what
3:13kind of wall space we have on the
3:15backside here. So, if I can get that
3:16wide bubble, I'm going to take it. If we
3:19can't, we got to shorten it up here and
3:21treat it like a hallway and we'll cover
3:22down on that when Trey gets into the
3:23shooting piece here. One real easy thing
3:25to work on, even out here on a flat
3:27range, we're not in a building, right,
3:28is creating the space from the door jamb
3:31and the actual this is considered like
3:33the threatening area, right? We don't
3:35want to when we start that pie to be
3:36right up into here. It feels people want
3:39to go to that door because they're
3:41shooting into it. And then I see my
3:42targets here. Bam, bam, bam. I've
3:44overexposed this to what I cannot see
3:47over here. So, we need to back off that
3:49door. Get what we can get on this side.
3:51And then we just start our movement from
3:53here utilizing as much space. Now, in a
3:55flat range, we got infinity. So, treat
3:59it realistically. What is your normal
4:00size of room that you can walk through?
4:02If there's furniture in the place, you
4:03can use boards like we're going to do
4:04later. Shorten it up. Use it as a
4:06hallway. Do not start your clearance
4:08from here. This is not where we want to
4:10be. As far back as possible.
4:12Okay. So, [clears throat] question. Um,
4:15if I'm if I'm here and I'm at a modified
4:18low ready,
4:19right?
4:20Why do I want to be at a modified low
4:21ready instead of already on the gun on
4:24my sights?
4:25Yeah. It just gives us that peripheral,
4:26right? We're able to open up our vision
4:28and process what we're seeing in the
4:29room. So, a big thing that new shooters,
4:33people that are new to like home defense
4:34or CQC, CQB, they get sucked into, I'm
4:37going to shoot my gun, I got to be on my
4:38sights. The processing that they're able
4:41to actually bring into their brain and
4:42tell them what's in the room just
4:44degrades rapidly. So, if I got that
4:46modified low ready here, that's why we
4:47work lows and highs on the range on the
4:49flat range. I'm here. I can look and see
4:52threat. Maybe it's not a threat. Maybe
4:54there's something that's kind of wonky
4:55in the back of the room. I'm trying to
4:57see around something. All I got to do is
4:59a quick snap. So that's we work a low
5:02ready drill and try to get that under
5:03that subsecond. That's how fast we
5:05should be able to do it even as we
5:06process and move through. So okay. So
5:09question for you on low ready because
5:11this seems to be something that I'm
5:12seeing all over the internet. Nobody has
5:14a standard for low ready.
5:16So if if this is low ready for me over
5:20the top of my sight, I'm thinking I'm at
5:23his belt line. is where where are you
5:27as far as from my low ready
5:29from your low ready. What are you seeing
5:30when you
5:31Yeah, I'm I'm just looking just over the
5:34top here. So, anything that's on that
5:36low end, I can still see out of the
5:38peripherals right in my left eye. That's
5:39also why we don't like if we're going to
5:41start doing getting into clearance of
5:43any kind. And we should be practicing
5:45this just on the flat ranges, two eyes
5:46open, right? See a lot of people get in
5:49here and especially when they shoot
5:50pistols and they do like a home defense
5:51course, they close that eye and it's
5:54like all stop. Hey, you're missing all
5:57this stuff over here. We can't even
5:58you're you're not even able to see it to
6:00process. So, what I want to do is keep
6:02my peripheral as open as possible. The
6:04only piece that I really can't see is
6:05this part of my gun, right? And I can
6:07pretty much see around it as I process
6:09the room. My eyes are kind of moving
6:10around it, [snorts] so I'm able to see
6:12everything I need to. If I have to come
6:14a little lower,
6:16we can do that, too. It's not a big
6:17deal. What are we talking here? 5 6 in
6:20to come up to it, right? So, it's not a
6:22huge difference. If we're on the range
6:24and we want to say start working our low
6:26ready drills if we're not doing it for
6:29videos, you know, showing how fast we
6:31are, get get the gun low. You know what
6:33I'm saying? I I would start here. See
6:35what our time is there on our part time.
6:37Then, okay, this is way too low. I can
6:39see everything. Maybe I come up to here.
6:41Just kind of bring that up into my
6:42peripheral until I start to lose
6:44visibility of what I'm trying to shoot
6:45at. and then I'll start from there and
6:47work my way up and kind of start
6:49practicing that processing in the room.
6:51Okay, here we go. Let's shoot one. All
6:53right, so I come up to the door. I'm
6:55here. I'm low ready. And uh so I want to
6:58how how tight on the door before I start
7:00my pie.
7:02Right. So let's simulate that you have
7:05uh door handle on this side. Right.
7:06Okay.
7:07So we're going to pop that door. Now
7:09there's a couple different schools of
7:10thought on how we want to do that, too.
7:12Right. So, if I'm going to take this
7:13door, giving me a little bit more of an
7:16advantage, right? I'm going to get this
7:19gun tucked up as far underneath of my
7:20arm as I can. I'm not going to lean out
7:23and reach in front and I'm just going to
7:26hit that door and I'm going to shove it
7:28open and then separate myself from the
7:30door there. So, I'm going to go back as
7:31far as I can. So, let's treat this as if
7:34it's a long haul right here. I'm gonna
7:36go back literally as far as I can go so
7:38that I'm getting as far into that corner
7:40as I possibly can because that is the
7:42immediate threat of mine. And then I'm
7:44gonna start working my pie.
7:46Boom. What we don't want to do we see a
7:48lot of if as we're doing this movement
7:51is like this stuff. We start like
7:53getting feet cross up. We're not doing
7:54it like a OSI drill in football, right?
7:57Normal walking is the easiest way to do
7:59this. Just going to come out and walk.
8:02Boom. Boom. Boom. Going to keep going
8:04down. Boom. Boom. Boom. Okay. All right.
8:07Here we go.
8:24We take up all the rest of the real
8:25estate we can get. Here we go.
8:28Excellent. What did that feel like when
8:30you were doing that? Um, so a couple of
8:32things that I had questions on when I
8:34was done backwards was I feel like I
8:36stopped when I might have kept should
8:38have kept going after I shot.
8:39Yeah. So, as we like for first time
8:43people that are doing this, right?
8:44That's what I would do. I'm going to get
8:47my clearance. I'm going to start my
8:48movement. When I see my target,
8:51I'm going to stop and I'm going to just
8:52make sure that I'm getting my good hits
8:54because my body position is now
8:56different than what it normally is.
8:57Right? If we start to incorporate the
8:59full movement across before we're
9:01comfortable with this kind of this
9:03offshooting here and I'm going to keep
9:05walking, we're going to start seeing
9:07rounds trail and lead. They're going to
9:09go back and forth on the target because
9:10we're not comfortable with that swing.
9:11Different body position and a lateral
9:13movement. So,
9:16I don't mind the stopping right at
9:18first. What it should look like is
9:26all the way over. All right.
9:29[clears throat] See if we can uh see if
9:31we can simulate.
9:33Trying to be like feel the seal.
9:35Don't be like me.
9:36All right. Here we go. Doors open.
9:51All right. So, you got all these
9:52different like IPSC IDPA targets, right?
9:54We chose these ones because the idea
9:57behind the these drills is to be able to
9:59shoot fast and accurately with the
10:02movement piece in it. So, we've kind of
10:03limited what our effective hit area is.
10:06So, we basically run like an A zone down
10:08and then we got like your lower pelvis,
10:09stomach, but we want these in the A's.
10:11And then if we switch over and we start
10:12going to the head shots, we'd like to
10:15keep them in here. We start to really
10:16tighten up groups when we do that. But
10:18these targets allow your eyes to kind of
10:20focus on a certain piece that we're
10:22trying to hit. Um [snorts]
10:24simple spray paint or you can pick these
10:25up online and they're really good for
10:27these kind of drills cuz it forces your
10:29hand to focus on the area that we're
10:31actually trying to hit. So So you can
10:33grab some duct tape, run it down the A
10:35zone, spray paint black on both sides.
10:37You can do these on angles, whatever you
10:39want to, depending on the scenario that
10:41we're setting up. So, let's run it
10:42again.
10:42All right, here we go. Door.
10:58How'd that feel?
10:59I felt a little bit smoother.
11:01I think I'm I think I'm I don't have my
11:04foot feet worked down.
11:05Yeah. to where I feel like if I tripped
11:07over something, I'd be screwed right
11:08now.
11:08Yeah. Yeah. And uh I don't know if you
11:12notice it when you do it and I do it
11:14myself sometimes still. Once I get that
11:16first target and I start shooting
11:17through it and I've now I've looked
11:19through my optic or my red dot, we tend
11:22to hone in on staying on our sights
11:24rather than coming back down because
11:26we've just shot a target. Boom, boom,
11:29boom. And now my eyes just are locked on
11:31that red dot. and we start to see we'll
11:33lose a lot of that peripheral that we're
11:35trying to maintain the whole time. So,
11:38it's not like a quick dump of uh I shot
11:42a target, I'm going to go back down to
11:44this like super low ready. It's going to
11:46be coming across
11:48and then I'm just down to here again.
11:53Makes it a little bit easier. I do like
11:55to kind of hone in on the red dots as I
11:58get to that kind of far thing because
12:00this is where and we'll talk about this
12:01drill later is shooting through that
12:03crevice. I don't want to be super low
12:06and then I snap or I'm caned and now I'm
12:07hitting a door jam. So when I get to
12:09that kind of end part, I'm going to
12:10bring it up just so I kind of see a
12:12little bit more of it and I'm just
12:14focused on this little corner area right
12:16here. But we'll talk about that drill
12:17later. Go ahead.
12:31I did it again. That you that felt way
12:34it looked way smoother and your footwork
12:36was way it was just natural walking,
12:38right? We get kind of sucked into the
12:40weeds on like here like footwork a lot.
12:44If you're super new to this, we just
12:46walk. We just walk. and get comfortable
12:47walking cuz as we're moving through
12:50here, we're essentially having to pivot
12:52around, right? Like our hips are
12:53transitioning with the movement of the
12:55actual threat that we face. So there are
12:58times where I'm going to be here and
13:00then I have to turn my hips to get
13:02around. Otherwise, we're you're doing
13:04this number. That's not we can't shoot
13:06like that. It looks stupid. So when the
13:08hips move, we just walk backwards in
13:10that kind of semicircle. That looked
13:12really good. Footwork was really good
13:14there. No stoppages. came down, dropped
13:16that modified low. It was awesome. So
13:19guys, one of the reasons why you want to
13:21have So there's a difference in
13:23practice. If you're out here by
13:25yourself, you're practicing instruction
13:28or a class through a a a an instructor
13:33that is better than you and has the
13:35skills to be able to do it and watch you
13:37and correct you. That's that's
13:39instruction. That's that's real
13:41training. So, make sure you get the
13:43difference in I'm practicing and I'm
13:45training. If you're on the range by
13:46yourself, you're not training. You're
13:48practicing. Try to shoot while you move.
13:51That most people don't do. They go out
13:52and they get 100 rounds, come up, high,
13:54ready, low, ready, boom, boom, boom.
13:56Shoot a couple build drills, do a
13:57transition, like, I'm good to go. Now,
13:59let's laterally move back and forth. We
14:02can [music] even take, if you had to, if
14:04we didn't have this this setup right,
14:05and we wanted to kind of work that same
14:07kind of movement, we don't even need to
14:09build a door jam here. You don't have to
14:11have this. We can simulate any of this
14:13stuff. We can put a target in the middle
14:14and start that walk and just snapshot
14:17boom boom boom down. And we can keep
14:19doing that over and over again until we
14:22feel comfortable that as we're moving,
14:24we're still hitting what we're aiming at
14:26and having our body do these different
14:28things that we're not used to because we
14:29do this all the time. Hey, that feels
14:31way more comfortable now if I'm here and
14:33I'm more bladed off cuz this is like a
14:35cardinal sin, right? To shoot like this.
14:36This is like old marksmanship NRA stuff.
14:39Nobody does that anymore. We get put in
14:41those positions with our foot placement
14:43as we move. It just happens. So, this is
14:46a little this is even overkill for like
14:48somebody who's just getting into it, but
14:49I think it drives the point home for
14:51that low ready to process what we're
14:53looking for. So, this next drill is like
14:55your worst case scenario, but it's super
14:57easy to set up and you can do it either
14:59with this or you can just do a modified
15:01one where we do that low ready and we
15:03explode back as we kind of pop a door
15:05and start to engage. So, if I were to
15:08open a door here with proper P, right,
15:11we that's like the biggest thing with
15:13all this stuff is make sure that that is
15:14actually somebody that we are trying to
15:16shoot at or something. If I swing this
15:19door open here, boom, and somebody's
15:22right there. Theoretically, we can start
15:25shooting from here. I I can I'm looking
15:27down. It's more of that instinctual kind
15:30of point shooting. I can do that from
15:31here. Realistically, we want to create
15:33space. So that's a move back as we
15:36engage from there. Okay. So you can do
15:38that even on a flat range just by
15:40simulating a a chicken wing and then on
15:42a shot timer. Beep. Boom boom boom boom
15:44boom. And then we're going to bring the
15:45gun up and shoot from there. So if
15:48you're going to set up the door jambs,
15:49make sure there's not a bunch of stuff
15:52in the way that you can hit and like hit
15:53yourself in the face with it cuz you can
15:55frag yourself pretty good out here. So
15:56all right. You want me to run it, Trey?
15:58Yeah. Okay.
16:00So this is just a fast simulation. And I
16:02got the gun is tucked up under my arm.
16:04It gives me that kind of stability. If
16:08I'm going to throw a door here, I can
16:10from here
16:12shoot like super easily. This takes a
16:15lot of practice. I have to have muzzle
16:16discipline, whatever. I probably
16:18wouldn't want to do that unless I've
16:22done this several times, right? So,
16:24chicken wing door gets popped
16:29and I'm going to engage. I'm going to
16:30make sure everything's good. Then we
16:32continue that movement around the room.
16:35Drop that modified low. Clear. Clear.
16:38Clear.
16:40And all the way over. See what I need to
16:42see. Okay.
16:44So, here I am. I've got my gun tucked
16:46in. What' you call it? Chicken wing.
16:47Yeah. Yeah.
16:48And I'm going to pop the door.
16:50Am I on safety right now? Yes.
16:52Yes. Safety finger off the trigger.
16:54Yes.
16:54Okay. And then as soon as I know that
16:56that's a threat, safety's off as I'm
16:58coming up. Correct. Okay. Then do I put
17:02the gun back on safety as I start my
17:04pie?
17:04As a good practice. Yeah.
17:06Okay.
17:06We should start there, right? Because
17:08we're in that initial phase of we're
17:10trying to get good P, right? We don't
17:13want to have to be taking a shot and
17:15going, "Oh, what did I just do?" kind of
17:17thing. So, give yourself that extra
17:19split second. Gun goes on safe. Tone it
17:21down a second. That modified low, and
17:23then we continue the movement there.
17:24What is P?
17:26Positive identification. So, we want to
17:28make sure that it's not your kids, your
17:31wife, dog, cat, whatever it is in the
17:33house or whatever the situation may be.
17:35We don't just run in there and start
17:37slinging bullets, right? We can take
17:39that extra 3/10 of a second and kind of
17:41look, okay, I know what that is. Oh,
17:43that's not what I want to shoot at. We
17:44can come down off of that. That's why we
17:46don't go finger on trigger on fire, get
17:49startled, and that's the initial thing
17:50is I now I've sent something that I
17:52didn't want to shoot.
17:53Okay. So, another question here is let's
17:56say I pop this door and I see that
17:58that's a person, but I was looking at
18:00the door and I just barely caught it and
18:03I don't know if they have a gun. Then
18:05what?
18:06Yeah. Then we're going to have to kind
18:07of modify what we're doing here. Are we
18:09going white light? If it's dark in the
18:10house, like if it's in your house and
18:12say you're home alone, you're like,
18:13"Nobody's supposed to be in here." Now
18:15we start, that's that processing that we
18:17talked about in the beginning here is
18:18like takes a lot of time to learn what
18:21our brains are going to do when we're
18:22processing threat. non-threat, you know,
18:24lethal force, non-lethal. Maybe that's a
18:27command call. If you if somebody's not
18:29supposed to be in there, hey, what are
18:30you doing here? Kind of thing. We're not
18:32just immediately like human. Boom. And
18:35starting to send rounds, right? So,
18:36yeah, that becomes like a decision-m
18:39thing. Yeah. Okay. All right. Here we
18:41go. Let's run it. Let's run it. I got I
18:44feel fast. I'm just kidding. I feel
18:46slow. I feel when he shoots versus when
18:47I shoot, I feel so slow. All right. Here
18:49we go.
18:51I wonder if I can do the field shoot.
18:53Let me just try.
18:57I think I hit it all three times. All
18:59right, here we go. Here we go. All
19:00right. Ready? Pop the door. There's the
19:03guy.
19:04All right, now I'm back down. I'm
19:06pinging.
19:08Oh, I'm in my sight. Ah, son of a
19:11biscuit. Son of a biscuit.
19:14How'd that feel?
19:15Um,
19:17I I think it felt really good. I I got
19:19on this guy really fast. I was still
19:21like these are me right here [snorts]
19:25and I saw myself hit that low.
19:27Yep.
19:27But it was like I picked it up and just
19:29started hammering down because I just
19:31thought as soon as I see it shoot and
19:33we're talking proximity. So that's that
19:35as we're basically coming back as we
19:38come up. You started to shoot because
19:40it's proximity. We're close up here.
19:42Hey, we had good positive ID. I'm now
19:45I'm shooting as it's coming up. That's
19:47kind of where we want that progression
19:49to get. If we're talking baseline
19:52back, get on your sights, engage, boom,
19:55boom, boom. What we're looking for is
19:57that it's outside of just a low ready
20:00snapshot. I am introducing a movement
20:02into it to create that separation while
20:04it's coming up and I'm acquiring sights
20:06and now I'm shooting. So, we're adding
20:07two little steps to the actual drill.
20:10Like I said, we don't need the door jam.
20:11We can do this out here flat. Just
20:14simulate that hop back and bring the gun
20:16up. Shoot. Do it again. Just keep doing
20:18it. And we can make those distances
20:20greater as we get better at it. I think
20:21that kind of helps students out, too.
20:23All right, listen guys. I want you to
20:25step in here to my office.
20:26Step into my office.
20:28Why? [music]
20:28Cuz you're fucking fired.
20:30Boom. All alphas, baby. All alphas. I'm
20:34just saying his
20:36Oh. Oh, no. My buddy Phil
20:39right here
20:40is freaking awesome. Those are actually
20:43those are actually um those were Matt
20:45shots. That's where I was aiming.
20:47[laughter]
20:47All right, let's do drill number three.
20:49Okay, so drill number three. It's a
20:51simple movement drill, but I think it
20:53drives home the point of that shooting
20:55and moving with a little bit of a
20:56lateral step into our threshold, we'll
20:58call it. All right, so we built a a fake
21:01door here. These are obviously walls
21:03that run, we cannot see on the other
21:05side. This target over here is
21:06simulating some of that's tucked way
21:08back in that last little bit that we
21:10can't see. So, the drill is super easy
21:12to do. We do it how we normally would.
21:14we get all the way to what we can't see
21:16in the end. Now, we're going to do a a
21:18breakdown for this one. As we step
21:20through the door, the gun comes down and
21:22then back up.
21:24And then we're going to continue our
21:25clearance. Right. So, this is a simple
21:28heel toe walk, break the threshold, gun
21:30comes up, and we start to engage. This
21:32one can What we're looking for with this
21:35primarily is as the shooter, I want to
21:37make sure that my dot is not doing this,
21:39right? Trying to keep that dot as as
21:42calm as possible even with the movement
21:44and the shooting. And also it's that
21:47snap off of coming from the low ready
21:49here or sorry the high ready and then
21:51bringing it out real quick. That's what
21:53we're kind of looking to do. Okay. So um
21:56question it starts in modified low
21:59ready, right? Yep.
22:00Because I've I'm I'm I've essentially
22:02panned the room. So I guess I would have
22:04started here and panned the room.
22:06Correct.
22:06Okay. So I've started here. I've panned
22:09the room. I don't see anything. Now I'm
22:11back here where I can't see. And the
22:14reason why I am bringing the gun
22:16breaking the gun down is because I'm I'm
22:18trying not to hit this threshold,
22:20right? Yeah. Similar if there's a door
22:22jam here.
22:22So door jam, guys, that if if just so
22:25you can like understand it that if I
22:27came here, I would hit the door jam. So
22:29we're breaking the gun down underneath,
22:32stepping through. Is there anything any
22:35special footwork that I need to know?
22:37The internet is beating me to death on
22:39footwork, Bill.
22:40Yeah. Um, let's again, let's just keep
22:42this like baseline. If we're starting
22:45off like, hey, I've never done this
22:47before. What's the easiest room?
22:49How would I walk into this room
22:50normally? Like, I'm going to go into the
22:52laundry room.
22:55You know what I'm saying? It's a literal
22:57movement of just I have to go this way.
22:59I'm going to go that way, and then I'm
23:00going to keep walking. The only
23:01difference is is I have this gun here.
23:03And as I come through, this is a
23:06simultaneous like movement, right? As
23:08the leg breaks the threshold,
23:11it's here. And now I got the gun up. So
23:13all I'm doing is introducing this into a
23:16walking into a room just to keep it
23:18super simple.
23:19We're going to call them footwork fill.
23:21Footwork fill. Here we go, baby.
23:23I'll trip on the next one.
23:24All right. Here we go. Let's see if I
23:25can get her.
23:33What' you think?
23:34Um I felt like I got it caught
23:36underneath my arm. Yeah.
23:37Yeah. A little bit. Uh and this is we we
23:40talked about it. If we don't have to
23:43break down, then we won't do it. I like
23:46to do it because most of the time, uh
23:48people are doing this stuff with 14-in
23:50guns, you know, and they they got the
23:52longer barrels on them. We can't
23:53necessarily get that through. This door
23:55is clearly bigger. I'm a smaller guy. I
23:58can pretty much get through a door with
24:00this this amount of breakdown where I
24:02just kind of blade off a little bit and
24:03then come through. I don't necessarily
24:05have to do this. I think it's good
24:07practice though. It adds a little bit
24:09more of a dynamic movement of like, hey,
24:12I'm not anywhere near the sights now.
24:14I'm going to a high ready drill while
24:15moving forward. So, if we want to break
24:17it down to its simplest form before we
24:19even do this, we can start here, walk
24:21forward, and then just present and
24:23shoot. Where is it comfortable for you
24:25to then get the gun back out? Right
24:28there. Right. That's kind of what you
24:30would practice as your high ready drills
24:32on a flat range. If you just came out
24:33here and you're shooting, where do you
24:35normally keep that? If we're talking
24:37multiple people are like you have
24:38another guy on that side of the wall,
24:40maybe we got to come up a little bit
24:41more. Okay. Uh, as far as like trigger
24:44and safety manipulation for people that
24:47are getting into this right now, we're
24:50going to do it super basic. Right.
24:52Fingers out, safe is on until I have
24:55good target identification. The gun is
24:57now in my shoulder. I have good sights
24:59on, safety's off. Now, we're going to
25:01start to prep that trigger just because
25:03we need to build as we go.
25:05Sure. And we might We're doing this now
25:08for home defense. This is I mean basic
25:10CQB that if you if you learn with, you
25:13know, you get this down and you add
25:14another guy and you add four and maybe
25:16you're an airsofter and you add 20 or
25:18maybe whatever you need it for. I don't
25:20know. But I'm thinking right now that
25:23I'm this is potential saving my family.
25:26And so if I'm saving my family, I just
25:28woke up at night and I'm groggy and I'm
25:30like, "What's going on?" And I'm in my
25:32freaking underwear or maybe you're free
25:34balling. I don't know what you guys do.
25:36But like safety on finger off the
25:39trigger is the way to go until you know
25:41that you have to shoot this guy. That's
25:44coming from like we both agree on that.
25:46Yeah. I think that's a good practice
25:47just to start and finish with always.
25:50All right, here we go. Let's give her
25:51another run.
25:52All right, so let's focus on that
25:54modified high ready and where it feels
25:56really comfortable as it comes out of
25:58that under into that shoulder pocket. So
26:00that's the focus here.
26:01Okay, here we go.
26:10That looks smoother.
26:11Yeah, it felt pretty good.
26:12Felt smooth. Here's a big thing that
26:13when uh we go over this stuff, right? We
26:16don't want to overthink basic things
26:18that we do every day, right? We can get
26:20super into the weeds on all this stuff,
26:23we go out to a range and we do high
26:25ready, low ready all the time. All we're
26:26doing is now walking in it, right? So,
26:28when you stop thinking about all that
26:30stuff and the gun just comes out and
26:31it's where it's supposed to be, now
26:33we're like, "Oh, I felt it. It was
26:35right. Let's do it again. Let's do it
26:36again." We keep going. Then we can
26:38progress from there and build. Uh, how
26:40did the like your elevation on where you
26:42was that comfortable where you were
26:44here?
26:44Yeah, I think that was fine. Yeah. And
26:46it it felt like when you said do it like
26:47you would normally do it and I was just
26:49like, "Oh, okay. This is this was where
26:51I would normally do it."
26:52And so once I did that, I also didn't
26:54get caught in my jacket.
26:55Yeah.
26:56Um, I guess the first time what I was
26:58thinking when I got caught in my jacket
27:00was I felt like in my brain maybe now
27:03that I think about it is like this will
27:04be faster, but the truth was it wasn't.
27:06I got caught in my jacket and the way
27:08that I always did it was faster.
27:10Yeah.
27:10Yeah.
27:10We always kind of revert [clears throat]
27:11back to that. You know, we hear it all
27:13the time is like you will revert back to
27:15what you do all the time. And uh we were
27:18talking holdovers too. Like we put the
27:20dot where we want it to go even if we
27:21know we have a holdover when like the
27:23stressors go. Same thing with this kind
27:25of I'm doing something different now.
27:28I'm caught. What do I do? Instead of
27:30just [music] I do this all the time.
27:31There it is. Same with the low ready
27:33stuff too. Uh footwork. We'll we'll talk
27:35about footwork. That looks super. It was
27:37like smooth, right? There's no hiccups.
27:40There's not this overanalyzing stepping
27:42too far forward then going too far that
27:44way. Then I'm not far enough into the
27:46room when I initially want to be. So
27:48that was just a walk, lift, and shoot.
27:51Looked really good. Did smooth.
27:52What I am seeing is so it kind of
27:54progressed to where guys were really
27:56compressing like this.
27:57Yep.
27:57And and then stuff was getting caught up
27:59on kit and now I'm seeing a lot of this.
28:01Right.
28:02And then they come into the room and
28:03drive.
28:03Yeah. Right. a lot of that over the
28:05shoulder stuff. Um, yeah, we went high
28:08port cuz it's easier to lean on [music]
28:09like door jambs when you're like
28:10relaxing. [laughter]
28:11I'm tired, man.
28:12Yeah. So, yeah, let's talk about a
28:14little bit of that that over the
28:15shoulders. It's gaining a little bit of
28:17popularity. There's a lot of different
28:19schools of thoughts on it, right? Uh, I
28:22had always done this under the arm going
28:24through a doorway. Uh, and I felt
28:26comfortable doing that. As I've kind of
28:28played around with this, it's a little
28:30bit easier to clear things that way.
28:33like as far as things that I'm going
28:35through and I feel like I'm faster for
28:37the presentation. I think one overlooked
28:39aspect of doing this as we come through
28:43is an immediate thing that I have to
28:45deal with how accurate can we be taking
28:49shots from up there. Not that we want to
28:51do that, right? We always want to have
28:52that good base where the gun comes out
28:55and it's in the shoulder. Boom. I'm
28:56here. This is where we want to shoot
28:58from. In the event, say there's
29:00something real close to me. What is the
29:02actual effective distance that we can
29:03engage from here accurately? So that's
29:06if if you guys are kind of super into
29:09that and this feels really comfortable
29:10coming over the shoulder, I would
29:13incorporate maybe a baseline training
29:15and you don't need to do any walking
29:17movement or anything. Right? So we can
29:19come out to here and literally stand
29:22here and come over our shoulder and just
29:25see where am I hitting. Right? It gives
29:28me at least a baseline like, hey, if I'm
29:30coming through and I'm right here, I can
29:32point shoot to maybe 10 to 15 yards. And
29:36that's stretching it out there. And now
29:38we're talking at 15 just hitting the
29:40body. I'd be pretty happy with that.
29:43Takes a lot of practice to do that.
29:45Shoot from here. The goal isn't to keep
29:47shooting from here, right? The goal is
29:49to eventually get the gun into the
29:51shoulder pocket as we're moving forward.
29:53But if we had to, how accurate are we?
29:56So, a simple drill to do is what we just
29:58did, right? Come out to the line. Gun
30:01goes over the shoulder. We're on safe
30:03fingers out. Shoot a two shot group.
30:06Just see where we hit. Okay, I'm at 8
30:08yards there. I had one burner on the C
30:11and one in the A. So, I I feel pretty
30:13comfortable with that. Now, the next
30:15drill, maybe we back out just a little
30:17bit. Don't even incorporate the door.
30:19Okay. And we're going to come in.
30:24We're going to close the gap there. Now,
30:26where do we hit? So, if we look
30:29first shot, it's acceptable. It's not
30:31where I would want it if I'm going here.
30:34And then once the gun goes into the
30:35pocket, we close the distance, then our
30:37group starts to tighten up, obviously.
30:39Okay. Uh, and then as we progress, we
30:41get into doors. Coming through an actual
30:44door and taking a lateral step, it gets
30:46really difficult to do it that way. So,
30:48we'll run it just starting here. So, the
30:51drill progression should be 5 to 7 yards
30:54that over the shoulder. see where I'm
30:55hitting. Then the next one is
30:58presenting into the shoulder as we're
31:00moving. So coming off that high thing,
31:02take maybe one to two shots as we're
31:04moving. Get it in the pocket. Shoot from
31:06there. Then we'll build the door in. Now
31:08that I'm going to bring this up to you,
31:09go back and look at all of the
31:11instruction that Phil's been doing. We
31:13typically whenever we're on a flat
31:15range, all of our stuff is get a really
31:18good base, come up, fire. Right? If you
31:22notice, every single time he's making
31:24this first shot or almost every time,
31:27it's like this.
31:30It's crazy, huh? I think that's why
31:31everybody says that the flat range, like
31:33when you think you have it figured out
31:34on the flat range, do you actually have
31:36it figured out? But like his first shot
31:38every single time has been here, second
31:40shot, and you see what I'm saying? Just
31:42because you have it down here doesn't
31:45mean you really have it down. And that's
31:47kind of one of the things we're trying
31:48to show you throughout this video. So,
31:50how did that feel? Like, it's kind of
31:52wonky. You got the caned a little bit.
31:54I don't know how to explain. Like, I'm
31:56trying to focus on the target and like
32:00have my It just feels so not unstable,
32:03just weird. Yeah.
32:04Yeah. Wonky is a good word.
32:06Yeah. A little bit wonky.
32:07Yeah. Now,
32:10I do feel though like I can at least at
32:12this distance I could hit it, right?
32:13Yeah.
32:14Yeah. So, at like five to seven, it's
32:16comfortable, but you shoot a lot too,
32:18right? So, if somebody that's like kind
32:19of new to it and they're like, I want to
32:21get into this and try it, maybe we go to
32:24something a little more basic first. Uh,
32:26so the drill progression, if you want to
32:28go out and just do it on a flat range,
32:30is get that feel for where it is, which
32:32we just did. And then the next thing
32:33that we really want to work on is the
32:36speed of to here. And then I'm actually
32:39seeing my sights so I know what I'm
32:41actually shooting at. So, we got we feel
32:43good. Hey, we can make those hits. So,
32:44now the next drill.
32:45So, it would just look like this.
32:47Yep.
32:48Exactly.
32:51Start with a one shot string, then maybe
32:53go up to doubles, start shooting two
32:54shots. Here we go.
32:57Yep.
32:58Yep.
32:59It's a good drill.
33:00Then the last kind of step of this is
33:02that coming off getting the shoulder
33:06pocket as we're moving, right?
33:07Okay. So, it should be then I should be
33:10here.
33:10Yep.
33:11And uh
33:16Yeah. or shoot
33:19first up here. Shoot first here in this
33:21drill.
33:22If we're talking strictly like where do
33:24we want the gun to be? It's to get to
33:26here as fast as possible. Now, as we
33:28build, we can go the whole way out. We
33:31can start that shot and see what we're
33:32doing. If we want to get the most out of
33:35the drill, it's the moving to get it
33:37into our shoulders. What we're looking
33:38for.
33:39Okay. So, then it's just here, here,
33:42right? I kind of like to introduce that.
33:44Hey, we're going to try this cuz a lot
33:47of people are doing this now. I want
33:50them to see how difficult that is. And
33:53me and you can both agree that it is not
33:55easy and we both shoot quite a bit.
33:57There's there's a lot of variation in
33:58where we can hit.
33:59Yeah. No, I totally agree. These CGS
34:01suppressors are incredible. They have
34:04one of the least blowbacks on the
34:05market, but when your face is over the
34:08top of it, like it doesn't matter what
34:10you have. And I can only imagine a
34:12suppressor like that is horrible at
34:14blowback,
34:14right? Be eating gas like crazy. So the
34:18progression is can I do it? And if we
34:21can't do it, maybe we start thinking
34:22about different ways of incorporating
34:25like coming into a room, right? If we're
34:28good at it and we're like, hey, I got
34:29good hits, so I'm capable enough to do
34:32it. Then we can continue to build on it.
34:35But the next the theoretical progression
34:37is to get it to here faster. So that's
34:40where we can work that. You could
34:41literally stand here on the flat range
34:43and just
34:44boom over and over again. Put yourself
34:47on a clock. That always seems to add
34:49like a massive amount of stress for some
34:51reason and guys will start screwing
34:52stuff up. Uh [snorts] and then we start
34:54to incorporate the walking which we just
34:56did. So super easy and it doesn't take a
34:58lot of rounds. I mean you can do it in a
34:59mag. Do shoot a mag a day of it, you
35:01know, if that's what you want to do. So,
35:03one of the things I would say, guys, is
35:05um I don't I don't believe, and I think
35:09Phil will agree with me on this, I don't
35:11believe that there's any one right way.
35:13I kind of think you should be familiar
35:15with all of them because you never know
35:17when that's what you're going to have to
35:19do. And so, the point of purposeful
35:22practicing or training is so that you're
35:26so comfortable with this gun that it's
35:29just like second nature.
35:30Yes.
35:30Yeah. And so I've been out here with
35:32Phil for the last couple hours. He can
35:34do every every way. He can do all three
35:36of them, whatever. Low ready, high
35:38ready, over the shoulder. It's fine. Um
35:40crap. I even think you need to be able
35:42to do it where maybe I wasn't paying
35:43attention or maybe I was working on
35:45something and I had to get my gun up and
35:47still shoot, right? Like you need to be
35:48so familiar with this gun that it's just
35:51second nature to you. And I think that a
35:54lot of a lot of things that I personally
35:56see with with people is like they only
35:59take the gun out once or twice a year or
36:01maybe they're kind of scared of it. It's
36:03like they're kind of like like I I don't
36:06know like they're just a and and I know
36:08in your mind you're saying I'm not
36:09scared of my gun. I get it. But you're
36:12just kind of just not comfortable with
36:14your gun. That's what I that's that's
36:15how I would describe it.
36:17Yeah. this uh a big part of this like if
36:20you want to come out and train CQB and
36:22this is what you want to get into. More
36:24importantly than anything that I find is
36:26it builds confidence in gun owners when
36:28they have another understanding of a
36:30different subject within firearms,
36:32right? You can be really good shooting
36:34along a lateral line with a bunch of
36:35people and you're hitting bullse eyes
36:37all the time. You can shoot fast.
36:38[music]
36:38Now we start to incorporate a little bit
36:40of movement. We got to kind of start
36:42over. Now we start to incorporate, you
36:44know, faux walls and targets and corners
36:46or what. What is that really doing is
36:48the confidence level. You see people get
36:50like now I know how to do that. I at
36:52least have a baseline understanding of
36:53it. So I think that makes people just
36:56better shooters, more comfortable around
36:57guns. I think that's that's where we
36:59want them to be, right? This is a drill
37:01for working that lateral progression
37:03into the room or the lateral movement I
37:05should say. So one way to do it is to
37:08get as far over as I can. I know that
37:11this is a a wall here and there's
37:12nothing that I haven't seen because I
37:14started and I looked all the way through
37:15the room. I get to here. The only thing
37:18I haven't seen is this last little bit
37:20here. So, I can present into here and
37:22shoot from here as I continue through.
37:26And
37:28the thought process of that is I'm going
37:30towards what I haven't seen yet. And
37:32that's going to be the most accurate
37:34engagement that I can do as a shooter.
37:36The other way that people like to do it,
37:38and this is where you got to kind of
37:41work this on like your range here, which
37:44is what we're doing, is moving laterally
37:47of the threat in the corner of the room
37:50there. So, the idea is that I don't want
37:53to be presenting myself to him as I move
37:56towards him, right? Makes it easier for
37:58him to shoot back at me. If I move this
38:01way, it makes it harder for him to pick
38:03up and track and shoot. The question
38:05that I always have is how good are we as
38:08shooters shooting as we move across
38:11something, right? So, me and Trey are
38:13both righties. This room will be a
38:15little bit easier. So, I get to my
38:18threshold here. And as I come in,
38:24okay, now right there, I can tell you I
38:26had one C in the top shoulder right
38:29here. Shot number four.
38:32This one here. because my sights as I'm
38:35walking, I'm not tracking back on them.
38:37And this is the easier way for us to
38:39actually shoot it because I'm going with
38:42the way that my body is built. We get
38:43into cross body shooting, which we'll
38:45talk about, it gets even harder because
38:46as for me, I get older. I can't turn all
38:50the way. So, Trey, you want to run it
38:51now? Kind of see what I want you to
38:54really focus on is call your misses if
38:57you have any. You probably won't. You'll
38:58probably hit them all, but if you have a
39:00miss, call it.
39:01Okay. So, um, going back to the same
39:03thing that we've always done here, we're
39:05going to enter this room
39:07low ready.
39:08Yes. It's the same
39:09modified low ready. Okay. And then we're
39:11not taking our safety off or finger on
39:12the trigger till we see the threat.
39:14Correct.
39:14Okay.
39:14Yep.
39:15All right. Here we go. And I've already
39:18cleared this one, so I'm coming in.
39:21Yeah. I had a miss shot to the right.
39:25Number
39:26number three shot was to the right. This
39:28could have been me right here because I
39:31was tracking my sights down as I was
39:33shooting that positive. That's me.
39:35Yep.
39:35And then I everything else while I was
39:38moving, my sights were tracking way low.
39:41Right. Right. So, this is like a good
39:43part of this to do that you can do just
39:45by walking back and forth on a range
39:48[music] and working that as I'm
39:50shooting, calling that shot. That's why
39:51I prefaced the the drill with that. I
39:54wanted you to kind of be focusing on
39:55that so you knew, hey, one, two, ah,
39:58three was way out there and I saw it
40:00happen. Why? What is the why behind why
40:02I ended up way out here? We were
40:04probably walking and the gun started to
40:06fade with us, right? I I could I
40:08literally remember seeing my first I had
40:12my dot here.
40:13Yep. And then I know second and third
40:15and I was like I don't know if it was
40:17like a movement in my feet now, but I do
40:19remember seeing my sight go off and I
40:22was like I pressed the trigger and I I
40:24was like I shouldn't have done that in
40:25my mind. I should have paused one more
40:27second but
40:27Yeah.
40:28Yeah.
40:28And it's good to know when we have those
40:30misses. So what we what we would like to
40:33do now is maybe slow down the walking
40:35for both of us. Slow it down a little
40:37bit and just focus on five hits in the
40:40A.
40:40All right, let's do it.
40:41Let's do that.
40:41Let's do it. Pressure on. Pressure's on.
40:43Let me stretch out my legs. All right,
40:45here we go. So, uh, as soon as we start
40:48to feel that kind of go, we're losing
40:50control. Throttle down just a little.
40:56I might have pulled that last one.
41:01Now she's clean. Look at that.
41:02Nice.
41:03Excellent. Okay, so now that we do that,
41:06say we do that two more times at that
41:08speed, we kind of build that, call it
41:1030% of what we're comfortable walking
41:11at, right? Felt like we were going
41:13pretty slow.
41:15We got hits. Now, would I like these
41:17groups to be tighter? Yeah, obviously.
41:19But hey, we got five a zone hits each.
41:21Next thing we're going to speed up just
41:23a little bit more. We build that in
41:25until they that spread goes. Now, you
41:27throttle back again until we get
41:28comfortable there. It's all progression
41:30as we're doing it. This is the easier
41:32way to do that lateral walk. And you
41:35don't need all this stuff, right? We can
41:36do this 10, 15 yards walking back and
41:39forth out here. You get the same thing
41:40out of the drill. I like to set these up
41:42because it mentally forces us to do
41:45those little nuances that you have to do
41:47going through a doorway. Okay.
41:49Yeah. One of the things that I noticed
41:51about setting this up, I realized this
41:52is like probably a 12x 12 room, which
41:54would be like a kids room. And
41:58mentally, without even knowing, I know
42:01that there's a wall there, right?
42:03So, it's like I need to shoot faster. I
42:05need to take my steps a little slower.
42:07And I need to stop. All that's
42:09processing as I'm shooting. Yes. Which I
42:11think makes it just a little cooler than
42:13just walking across the range. But
42:15totally understand if you can't do this.
42:17Um especially if you live in one of
42:19those commie states. All right guys,
42:21listen. This is a problem that I think I
42:23think this is a real problem. We've seen
42:25a video um where we saw a bunch of a
42:30bunch of tier one guys blistering
42:32through a house and they've even termed
42:35it. It's like on Reddit and shit. It's
42:37called Delta Fast. All right. I think
42:41you think that all CQB is that fast
42:44because you see these guys, but CQB
42:46isn't really that fast. It just looks
42:49fast because they're doing all of the
42:51fundamentals correct. Right, Phil? Yeah,
42:54that's a good point. We can go very slow
42:58through and it's still if things are
43:00flowing correctly, it does look fast and
43:02it will um takes a lot of repetition to
43:05get there. hours, days, weeks. Um,
43:09that's why I like doing this stuff
43:10because you can spend hours doing this
43:12and still find flaws in all of your
43:14shooting as we've seen today out here
43:16just doing it together. Right. One of my
43:18really good friends, his name is James
43:20Joerger, was James Jagger, I guess,
43:22still is James Joerger. Uh, one of my
43:24mentors, he told me, "How long do you
43:26have to do CQB?"
43:29The rest of your life. Don't rush to
43:32your death. All right, roll it, baby.
43:34All righty. So, we got normal for us
43:37being righties is coming through the
43:39doorway that way and the gun is where
43:41it's supposed to be. Now, if we talk
43:43about crossbody where I have to turn my
43:46body as I'm moving this way because I am
43:49a righty, we can get into switch
43:51shoulders, all this stuff that we got to
43:54start practicing more of that because
43:55people think that I can switch a
43:57shoulder, I can shoot this way. I I know
44:00I'm slower and my target acquisition is
44:03rough going to my non-dominant eye. So,
44:06I want to practice this. This is what
44:08I'm going to do uh for my own repetition
44:12training. Right? So, I get as far as I
44:14can see and then I'm going to make my
44:17entrance.
44:22Okay. Now,
44:25an easy way for me to kind of get my
44:27base back. I I have terrible flexibility
44:29now, right? Like as we get older, we get
44:32more tight. I can't turn all the way
44:34around to here. So,
44:37my feet are going to kind of do some of
44:39that work as I'm moving. And I end up
44:41walking almost backwards as I'm shooting
44:43cuz this is what I'm focused on here.
44:45Like all this other stuff going on here,
44:47I've already cleared all this up. This
44:49is the last thing that I'm worried
44:50about. Okay? So, I'm not worried about
44:53here. If I got to turn my back to an
44:55empty wall, it doesn't really matter,
44:57honestly. I'm focused on getting good
44:59hits on the target there. Uh,
45:03and we are clean now. I went slower. I
45:07went a little bit slower because I know
45:10if I ramp through there, I'm going to
45:12fade shots and they're going to go off.
45:14I know that about myself. So, maybe next
45:16time I go a little bit faster, call it
45:1710%. So, let's see how that feels.
45:21getting that kind of that little bit of
45:22a pivot as we move through.
45:23Okay, so I've come through. I'm gonna
45:26come through the threshold.
45:28Am I breaking down?
45:29Yeah.
45:30Yeah. Okay, so here we go. Break down.
45:32See my guy. Oh, I pulled that one. I
45:36pulled that very first shot far left.
45:39I can see it on the target.
45:40Yep.
45:40And that's usually where we see that is
45:42that initial bring up as we're moving.
45:46This is going one way or another if that
45:48makes any sense at all. Right. cuz I got
45:50a good base here.
45:53And as I present out, I'm taking a step
45:55here as I'm coming up and things will
45:57either they'll go with me or they'll go
46:00away from me is what I tend to see more
46:01often than not. And then we got to kind
46:03of dial back in, which you did. So first
46:05round, boom, you're way off. Next four,
46:07right in the middle. You know what's
46:09going on in my brain is um so this has
46:12like an EOTech circle dot reticle in it
46:14and I just like watched it float and I
46:17don't know if it was like I was pressing
46:19the trigger and it was still happening
46:21cuz in I in my mind I think I would make
46:24myself put it back but it was like it
46:26floated and I shot it was weird. Yeah,
46:28because and I I don't know the what do
46:30we call it the neuroscience or whatever
46:32behind it, but to me it's as I'm moving
46:34one way, the hands and everything else
46:37want to go with it. That's why when I
46:39turn all the way over like that, it gets
46:41super difficult cuz my natural body
46:43wants to move back to the way that I'm
46:45moving because it's comfortable for my
46:46torso to be there. That if that makes
46:48any sense. So, I think for me to do
46:50this, it's the presentation. And then
46:53one step over and if I can roll my hips
46:55and comfortably do that, I now have a
46:57better shooting base. And all I got to
46:59do now is walk backwards, which
47:02Let me see if I can try that. Dudes,
47:04this is the hardest one we've done so
47:05far. So, I'm here.
47:15That was better. I didn't have the pivot
47:17though. I think I I think I like came
47:20across and just started walking
47:22backwards. But I mean, I guess if I'm
47:23just walking to get in the room, I'm I
47:26walk to get in the room.
47:27Yeah. And how natural does it feel, I
47:29guess, is the next question. Never
47:32I felt like in my mind I felt like to go
47:34slow and make sure that it was there
47:35that I needed to walk like that. I mean,
47:37I know that I could have, but yeah, I
47:39felt like I don't know what I did was I
47:42felt like when I came through it just
47:45was immediately I started walking back.
47:47That's what I did, right?
47:47It's almost you're it's almost like
47:49you're uh you're when you take that
47:52initial step in the room and then we go
47:53this way. You just did it, but because
47:55you're already here when you stepped in,
47:57instead of going that way, because
47:59you're going this way, you just took
48:01that next step back and it just opened
48:03you up. Uh now, let's let's have you do
48:06it where you don't do the pivot at all
48:08and see what happens.
48:10Just use the trunk. Just walk through
48:11and use your trunk like this.
48:13Okay. Now, we're going to have to get
48:14the shots off faster because we're not
48:17going to be able to turn all the way
48:18around and get five shots off in this
48:20corner. We cannot be here shooting like
48:22this. You know what I'm saying?
48:26I don't know if I could do this. All
48:28right, here we go.
48:32Ah,
48:33see, we go right back to it. That feels
48:35comfortable.
48:41Now, how awkward did that feel? I I mean
48:44I'm like old and broken and like I can't
48:46even move my body that much. I don't
48:47even know. I I watched my dot jump all
48:50Look how bad I was shot right there. And
48:52I watched my body jump like I could
48:54watch it jump
48:55and I couldn't control it.
48:57Right. And that's because you're it's
49:00just tension is pulling it. So what does
49:02the shot placement show us
49:04realistically? As we move that way and
49:06our torso is trying to go this way, this
49:09is when we start to see the drag come
49:10across. You know what I'm saying? So
49:12that's why when I said, "Hey, do it this
49:14way." The next round that you did it,
49:16you did that same step when you turn
49:17because we have to open up to shoot that
49:19direction. So it's just that's what you
49:21naturally did. If you take the thought
49:23process out of it and you're not
49:24thinking where are my feet going, what
49:26is my shoulder doing here? And you just
49:27walk to shoot because you have to get
49:29five rounds before you hit that 8ft wall
49:31over there. You took a slight pivot step
49:33and just turned your open your hips up
49:34to it. It's like running a football
49:36drill where we turn to go that way as a
49:38cornerback. You know what I mean? Same
49:40principle. We're just doing it with a
49:41rifle now. So, it's super cool for me to
49:43see like run it the way that
49:47you theoretically are supposed to just
49:49walking towards that way and doing it
49:51and we see that drag [music] and that's
49:53not good, right?
49:55Yeah.
49:55Now, you were shooting faster, too,
49:57because you had to. You're hitting that
49:59wall faster cuz you can't get all the
50:01way over there. So, it's a super cool
50:03drill. I think it's a good one to do
50:05because we never practice that. Now, if
50:08we wanted to progress more, we would do
50:10the switch shoulders, but I would start
50:12real slow just standing there and doing
50:14the switching shoulders and then coming
50:16up and seeing what our eyes are doing
50:18looking into the sights. Okay, so that's
50:19a different drill for a different thing.
50:21This just shows it's a lot harder to
50:23move cross body cross body lateral than
50:26it is to come in on our strong side and
50:28just walk across the room. So, but good
50:31shooting otherwise. That was
50:33first of that. I'd see what I can see,
50:36then I break down.
50:39That's like the speed I would move. But
50:41I'm all over the fucking place. I'm not
50:43hitting accurately. I get seven shots,
50:46five in and then two I got in a D and
50:49one in a C and I know where they are
50:51because I'm able to kind of look. Okay,
50:54I'm still doing that pivot even though
50:56I'm going at a faster rate. If I were to
51:00do
51:02I didn't think I could do it, honestly.
51:03If I were to come through that wall,
51:05that threshold,
51:08I'm all over the place. So, I start to
51:10see the trail.
51:12I'm coming through. Can't get my torso
51:14to go all the way over that way. So, I
51:15start walking rounds. Boom, boom, boom.
51:18I see this hit and I go, what do I got
51:21to do? I'm way off. I got to come back
51:23over correction because I'm way out of
51:26body alignment there. So, that one
51:28little kind of pivot step, turning
51:29around just a little bit, getting a good
51:31base. We can do five in all day. Then we
51:35ramp speed as we go, get more
51:37comfortable. So, it's a cool drill to
51:38do. I would say that's probably the
51:40harder of the ones that we've done
51:42today.
51:42That's the hardest drill we've done so
51:43far. Yeah, that's the hardest drill. The
51:45one I'm least comfortable with. The
51:47problem for me as a shooter is I tend to
51:51shy away from the ones I'm least
51:52comfortable with and I need to attack
51:54the ones I'm least comfortable with.
51:55Yeah, that's a it's a trend with
51:57everybody. And I do the same thing like
51:59uh strong hand, weak hand kind of thing.
52:02Like you don't have a weak hand. I have
52:03a weak hand. It's my left hand.
52:04Yeah.
52:05My my left hand is weak. I'm not a good
52:07left-handed shooter. I know that uh if
52:10you start doing this stuff, it makes it
52:12easier to build that into this style of
52:14drill training because we almost see
52:17that we could almost be forced to go to
52:20a switch shoulder to make it easier for
52:22entry on a room depending on what
52:24direction it's going. Like if if I was
52:26super comfortable switching left
52:28shoulder, that makes that easy.
52:30Yeah.
52:30Right.
52:31I'm I'm sure there are people out there.
52:33I don't know a lot of gunfighters that
52:34switch shoulders when they're actually
52:36shooting at a bad guy because it's not
52:39comfortable for us. Do I think you
52:41should practice it? I do. I think you
52:43should know both sides in case you're
52:44injured. I suck my weak shoulder. I suck
52:48with my weak hand. Now you see me with
52:50my pistol. I'm trying to get better, but
52:52um and I should try to get better with
52:54my my um off shoulder, but
52:58[sighs] it's just not something that
52:59I've heard practiced. I don't think
53:02ever. I'm not saying it's not a thing,
53:04but it's probably not a thing.
53:08Yeah. We We should people focus on
53:10getting good with their strong arm.
53:12Yeah. Let's start there and then we'll
53:14go. You know what I mean?

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