Rob Leatham

Worlds Collide: Relevance of Drill Results

Rob Leatham
Duration:   2  mins

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In a previous Worlds Collide video, competitive shooter Rob Leatham set up a competition transitioning drill and he and defensive shooting instructor Rob Pincus shot it for time. The result was that Rob L shot the drill in 3.3 seconds and Rob P shot it in 5.05 seconds. That’s a difference of 1.75 seconds.

In this follow-up video, they discuss what the results mean in the competitive and defensive shooting worlds. In a competition, 1.75 seconds is the difference between winning and losing a national championship. That’s the relevance of the results for competitors.

But in a real-world defensive shooting, would 1.75 seconds matter? Rob P’s answer is that he doesn’t know, because the drill they shot has no relation to any “gunfight.” It’s hard to take the results of that drill outside of the competition world and make them relevant to the world of defensive shooting.

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All right. So the issue has to come down to the relevancy. Well, the relevancy is you won, you had 3.3. I had 505. Right. So let's, but let's look at for this standpoint. Nobody missed, all the hits were good. Right? We got all our hits. Nothing went wrong. Everybody, everybody got shot that needed to. In a competition environment, I don't know what the math is. One point- You won ten dollars One point I got ten bucks. 1.7 seconds is the difference between winning and losing the national championship. Sure. Yeah. So that's where the relevancy is from the competition sooner. But in the real world, let me ask you a question. 3.3 to 505, would that matter in a fight? I don't know. That's the best, that is the best answer. So many of the gunfighters are going to come and tell you, like, no, no, no, you don't have to be fast. You just have to be accurate. And then the competition shooters are going to come in there and say, no, no, no, no. You're way too slow. It doesn't matter. I'm faster than you. Well, just in case, right now, like do that thing So, back to what we just did. Right, we've shot a target. We went over here and we shot this target. We went over there. Right. When, like, that's the problem. So if you want to try, what, what gunfight were you in? Where you like shot a guy, didn't pay any attention to what happened- Right? Shot, all of it's a game. Right. So it's very hard, I think, to take the results of that test outside of competition world, and make them relevant to what we do in defensive world. That's not a thing, that's correct. And that's the point. I teach people all the time to shoot faster, and more accurately. That's what I do. That's what my job is to teach people to do that. But at no point do I want the person to think just because he's a good shot, he's going to get the rest of it right. Because this is a made up thing. Right. This is a made up thing. It's not going to be like this. And you know what I find here, especially when you talk about the relevancy of results. Like the 30th rep, you're going to be. But it's kind of self-edit, you know what I see? You every time you run me through one of these drills, it's like the second to fourth time. Cause you start figuring out what the pattern is. You start figuring out, you get in your groove. The movements, you memorize everything. And that's the problem. Maybe your results aren't relevant at all. If you're going back and forth thinking it applies to the defensive world. I agree.
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