Combat Accuracy
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In a live firefight, your target won’t be two-dimensional, and you won’t always be shown their high-center chest. Rob Pincus says you have to be able to fire a shot that significantly affects a target’s ability to present a lethal threat, which requires you to have excellent combat accuracy, or the capability of putting into a target a round or multiple rounds that terminates the threat they pose. Rob gives you the techniques you need to improve your combat accuracy and put down your target before he has the chance to harm you or anyone else.
Here's another important video from the Personal Defense Network. Combat focus shooting relies on that mechanical consistency that comes from the fundamentals. It relies on the lack of options and the lack of variations in the way you present the gun to be efficient. The goal of that efficiency again is combat accuracy. Any shot that significantly affects the target's ability to present a lethal threat. If you think about a variety of different scenarios in which you might be attacked and you have to defend yourself, we could envision a time when a shot to the leg would significantly affect the target's ability to present a lethal threat. We can envision a time when a shot to the arm might significantly affect the Target's ability to present a lethal threat. In fact, we can even think of a time when a missed shot that goes into the ground or beyond the target scares that threat, lets them know you're serious about defending yourself and ends the threat right there. We can't count on any of those things though. What we need to count on is each shot having some effect. And when we train, we can't train for a thousand variations because that ruins our consistency model. So when we think about someone trying to hurt us whether they're trying to shoot us, punch us, choke us stab us, when they're coming towards us to hurt us or they're already there presenting a threat, most of the time, they're gonna be squared off to us. They're gonna be oriented towards us. It's part of what the body does naturally. When they are, that presents the target area of the high center chest consistently to us. We can plan on that being a highly probable target area for us to shoot at. When we look at the high center chest, from the front, it gives us a broad target area. From the side, the high center chest is also going to be an easily identifiable target. If you think of viewing me as a threat and I'm trying to hurt someone you care about over here, you can still see that there's a target area here that's presented. It's important to remember when we train on paper targets very often that we always see this and we start thinking about a two dimensional presentation. But that three-dimensional presentation of coming through the body is very important to understand. So if you think of a line coming through the body this way and a line coming through the body from the side, if each one of your rounds crosses both of those lines you're highly likely to significantly affect the target's ability to present a lethal threat. That's an important fundamental of combat accuracy that we need to apply to all of our training. Check out more videos just like this one at the Personal Defense Network.
I posted this under “The Balance Between Speed and Precision” but it applies hear just as well, if not more. This was my post: Excellent training information. Under stress you must slow down. After many years of “target practice” training and starting “self protection” training, at 5 or 6 feet I could draw, fire six shots as fast as I could under a time limit and stress and not hit the target or even the back board of the target stand. Even now I have to force myself to slow down. That’s not something you want to realize during an actual life and death encounter. Those misses are gong to strike someplace and you are legally responsible for each round you fire. IMO, speed and precision is the most important aspect of your training needs.