Worlds Collide: Excuses for Mistakes

Well, it's the same thing in a fight, right? You've won these world championships when things are wrong. Right, okay. Well go look at every cop that defended himself. He doesn't have perfect stance. Everything was wrong, he got caught off guard. He wasn't target shooting. Right. But he still managed to put it all together. The circumstances weren't perfect. I've won all these matches, Rob, most of the time, it's wrong, most of the time I'm nervous. Sometimes I'm not feeling good, you're sick. I mean, these kinds of things come into play. The light's wrong, whatever it is. I hear all of these excuses for poor performances and almost all the time, it's a cover for poor technique, poor skills. Well. It's poor application. Yeah. I think people people know what they're capable of in that perfect setting at the range. Well, they create this, they think that. They think it's going to show up in the middle of the fight or they think it's going to show up in the middle of training or competition, I'm sure. And they create that, so every time they walk to the line, it's got to be perfect. It's like the targets have to be taped. Everything has to be perfect in order for me to train. I say no, make it as bad as possible. It's raining today, this is the day we should be practicing. Well practicing, I'm glad you said practicing because I don't like it when I hear people go, "Oh, if it's not raining, we're not training." I don't want people trying to learn in inclement weather, I don't want to teach you how to, for example, today it's really slippery, if I were trying to teach you how to move and shoot, and move and stop, and transition and all that, today would be a dangerous day potentially to do that. Yeah, it would be dangerous. But would it be legit? It would be legit. If you had those baseline skills. Right, exactly. And. Now, come out on a slippery day, knowing it's going to happen, right? I had a class just recently and I had to do the couldn't dance, that's the way I explain it. I say the guy can't dance, when we had him move, he was like this. Right, robot. Frankenstein guy. I said. There's no reason for me to teach you how to shoot right now 'cause I can't get you from there to here in the step-out movement drill without falling over. So what do you do with that guy, so you got that guy, you got the Frankenstein guy, what do you do? I grab him, I physically grab him, Rob. I mean, it's literally, I grab him like this and I make him move and I put him in the position I want him to be. 'Cause what this guy continually did was this, he would step back like this and be on his heel. Okay, right, right. Just like that, so I said, I want your-- Totally off balance-- I need to get you in a posture where you can dance. Right. And I need to be where you, no matter where your feet go, no matter how your feet are moving and your head, that staying in the center, Takes away that excuse. Right. Because it's not a thing, could you maybe just dance a little, show us your moves. Sure. Well I mean, the drill I'm always going to shoot is I'm going to test this and go like this. That's how I'm always going to do it because what I really want the guy working on is not creating perfection out of the external circumstances. Right, right, no, absolutely. Got to be able to move, hey, it looks like what you'd see in a defensive world, the box drill, right? But what happens in defensive world? It ends up, it ends up being this. Yeah, yeah. Right, but it can't be, it's gotta be that, it's got to be the moving around and doing everything. Right. Even with the reloads, right? We talk about it with the reloads. If you're not moving on your reloads-- I found one. I was going to pay you, I was coming with cash for that, right, if you're not moving on the reloads, then what are you doing? You're dancing. Why stand still making sure everything is perfect when you don't need that perfection and it just creates the opportunity for the excuse of the lack of ability to apply your skill set? Exactly, so when you're doing that whole drill, are you ever thinking about shooting? No. You can't. So, that's the whole point, you have to teach yourself to shoot so it's secondary in nature because you're going to have to dance. There are going to be other things that are more important than pulling the trigger.