Worlds Collide: Natural Point of Aim

I got a thing to show you Rob, where I think the defensive world actually helps the competition world. All right. Normally we just annoy you, right? Right. No, no, no, no, it's not that. It's a different thing that annoys me. Not you, that was the royal you. It's really just you that annoys me not the defensive world. Fair enough, fair enough. No. One of my big pet peeves is this natural point of aim thing. You take a competition shooter. And if he had those two targets, he would sit here, he would draw his gun on his set up and he'd move a couple inches here and a couple inches there. As I get better and better and better and become a more competent shot and shoot more and more matches, I realize hell I'm shooting from in movement, I'm going to positions, I can't get a perfect natural point of aim. And I think that's one of the things when I teach the defensive classes is that people say, "well, how do you "get that perfect grip and stance?" I says, "Well there isn't one." And this is the thing, right? So in our classes, we'll tell people you know, " I want you "to start out, when you first start out, you're gonna draw "that gun. "You're gonna get in your shooting base." And I'll talk about basically your feet need to be equally distanced from the target. And they're gonna say, "Okay." And then you know, an hour later we're doing lateral movement and they're moving and they're moving while they're reloading and they're turning their hips, they're doing all this. And sometimes your right foot ends up back. Sometimes your left foot. And then sooner or later I'll get somebody who kinda puts it all together. And they'll say, "Well, wait a minute, Rob. "Now my right foot's in front, I think "that's why I'm missing." And I'm like, "No, you're missing the point." The feet equal distance apart. Sure, that's a starting place to be able to drive out and shoot. But at the end of the day, if I can't drive out and shoot here, if I can't drive out and shoot here, I can't apply those skills. So start out equal distance, just so you don't think, "I have to be here." Remember that picture I sent you of me doing some competition shooting like 20 years ago? Right with the box. Two things that were notable about that, you had hair and you had a compensated pistol. Oh my God, a compensated pistol. It looked like a 19 level with a comp on it. Don't let that picture out on the internet. But did you notice my foot was cranked way over there, because what? Because I was thinking about Probably aiming over here. aiming for that next target when I was gonna transition. Don't think about where your feet are gonna be 'cause you don't know where your feet are gonna be in the fight.