E & E Drill

All right, this is the E and E drill, and we're gonna use basically that whole eight and a half by 11 sheet of paper. We probably got a smaller area in there that might be eight by 10, that eight by 10 high-center chest box. The E and the E, they stand for evade and engage. We're going to create distance. We're gonna be evading a contact threat. Imagine a guy with a knife or a stick, big guy that's gonna crush you to death, and he's lunging at you. You've got your gun in the high compressed ready, and we're gonna drive the gun out as we evade by creating distance. We're also going to engage the threat with three to five shots. So I'm gonna move up here to about six feet. I've got a mark at 16 feet, another back here at 15, and at six feet I'm gonna start here at some signal, or on my own recognition of the need to evade and engage. I'm gonna move and shoot. Now, notice when I'm moving, I've got my torso pointed away from the direction of the threat. I'm trying to move this way, so I wanna turn my feet this way. Really important, I'm not backpedaling, right. I'm actually turning and trying to create some significant distance. Again, imagine a target lunging at you. Now why don't we keep going? Well, if I was this far away, I'd stop moving and keep shooting this way. So chances are the guy's either gonna keep coming at you and stay close, in which case that's what we're practicing, they're gonna stop or they're gonna turn and run. If they stop and they draw a gun, for example, I'd engage from here. This is basically a starting from the ready position version of our old shooting in motion drill under the CFS program. So here, let's try it. It's gonna be one-handed shooting. First I'm gonna do is just simply walking. Okay, once I'm across that line, I'm gonna stop. I'm gonna go ahead and just put a new magazine in. Now I'm gonna do it a little faster. All right, and now I'm gonna do it as fast as I feel like I safely can, which basically means, for me, because I practice this drill, I'm gonna be running on that signal in my head, or maybe I have a training partner that tells me to go. And that's the E and E drill.