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Lecture: 01-2007
How Much Time Do You
Need
ATSA STUDY GROUP
January 20, 2007
By:
Skip Gochenour
I.
If you must shoot, you must make
the shot!
A.
Making a shot is a matter of
discipline and self-control.
1.
You must have the D&S to
engage in sufficient meaningful practice to be able to make the specifically
required shot.
2.
You must have the D&S to apply
the amount of integrated skill sets to make the specifically required shot.
a.
See what you need to see to make
the shot.
b.
Apply the necessary amount of
finesse to the trigger to make the shot.
c.
Know the amount of time required
for you to make the shot.
B.
If you must make a shot, the
amount of time required to make the shot is not relevant to the need to make
the shot.
1.
If you must make the shot, you
must have sufficient D&S to take the time needed for you to make the shot.
2.
If you do not have the time to
make the shot you need to do something other than make the shot. Hence, the shot may be more a matter of
prudence than necessity.
C.
Upon establishing skill sets A.,
2., a. & b., you must know how much time you need to make the required
shot.
1.
Target acquisition, which may
include weapon presentation, must be considered as part of the time
requirements.
2.
There is a time component
associated with assuring sufficient accuracy to make the required shot.
3.
There is a time component associated
with transitioning, as needed, to alternate or additional targets.
4.
You must know the amounts of time
associated with each of these components and have the D&S required to apply
the time to the need to complete A., 2., a. & b.
D.
You must engage in practice
regimens that force the practice of these integrated skills.
ATSA STUDY GROUP
January 20, 2007
Target Focus Drill
Pit 3
Props: (1) IDPA target with
Purpose: To allow the Practitioner to find the speed
at which he can execute multiple hits in the CT scoring area while maintaining
a target focus.
Process: The target is placed at a distance of 2 yards
from the Practitioner. Practitioner
begins by coming to engage ready with the pistol in a collapsed two-handed
hold. The Practitioner focuses on a
location within the CT. On the signal
“gun” the practitioner fires two shots as rapidly as possible that allow all hits
to be maintained in the CT zone. The
process is repeated (5) times. The
Practitioner pushes to reduce the split times from shot to shot. Times are recorded.
The Practitioner
repeats the same drill with the exception that the drill is done one-handed.
ATSA STUDY GROUP
January 20, 2007
Transition Drill
Pit 2
Props: (2) IDPA targets with
Purpose: To allow the Practitioner to learn the amount
of time he requires to transition from target to target and the discipline
needed to adjust from large target areas to precise target areas.
Process: The IDPA targets are place at 3 yards forward
of the Practitioners position, one to his right ad one to his left. The targets are set at a 45 degree angle to
the Practitioner. The two steel plates
are set on posts at a distance of 15 yards.
The plates are 1 yard apart. The
exercise is repeated (3) times.
On the signal “gun”
the Practitioner does a presentation from the holster and engages one of the
IDPA targets with (2) rounds into the CT scoring zone. The Practitioner then transitions to the
plate closest to the IDPA target just engaged and knock the plate from the
post. The Practitioner then engages the
second IDPA target with (2) rounds to the CT scoring zone and transitions to
the remaining steel plate and knocks that plate from its post.
Total time for the
run is recorded along with the split times for each shot fired and the time
required for the presentation.
ATSA STUDY GROUP
January 20, 2007
Loops
Pit 6
Props: (3) IDPA targets with
Purpose: To allow the Practitioner to practice target
transition and the discipline of adjusting speed to target size.
Process: Targets are set with one at each distance of
3 yards, 6 yards and 9 yards from the Practitioner. On the signal “gun” the Practitioner does a
presentation from the holster and engages the 3 yard target with two rounds to
the body, the 6 yard target with 1 round to the head, the 9 yard target with
two rounds to the body followed by 1 round to the head, the 6 yard target with
two rounds to the body and the 3 yard target with 1 round to the head. Practitioner is tasked with keeping the gun
operational until all required rounds are fired.
The exercise is
repeated (3) times. The total time is
recorded along with the presentation time and the split time between each shot
fired. Hits outside the CT zones add (5)
seconds to the time of the specific run.
Misses ad (7) seconds to the total time of the specific run in which the
miss occurred.
ATSA STUDY GROUP
January 20, 2007
FoF
Pit: Indoor Range
Props: Sims weapons and drone knives.
Purpose: To allow the practitioner to practice speed,
accuracy and target transition.
Process: The Practitioner is assigned a role player
for whom he is morally and legally responsible.
A confrontation occurs where the role player who is assigned to the
Practitioner is separated from him and taken hostage by two hostile role
players who begin a violent and life threatening assault with contact
weapons. A third hostile role player
serves as a lay-off man armed with a Sims weapon.