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How much do you practice your self-defense skills? All of them? Your handgun, rifle, knife, hand-to-hand, physical fitness, and avoidance all need practice, training, and work.
Where do you start? How can you be good enough? How much time should you make to practice your skills? How much training should you get?
From my experience in 11-gun fights, you will never be as good as you want to be. You will always wish you worked on something more. You will never wish you worked on your skills less.
In this podcast, I created five categories of handgun self-defense skill sets. Which one do you fall into? Are you working to get to the next category?
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My Experience in 11 Gun Fights
Set a standard for what you want to accomplish How good do you want to be at: Shooting, knife fighting, hand-to-hand, physical fitness, and avoidance?
Not easy. I wish I could work on my self-defense as a full-time job
Handgun Self-Defense Shooting Novice: No formal training
Can load and fire a gun
Can hit a target out to 5 or 7 yards with their self-defense firearm
Knows the law from TV and talking to friends
Goes to the range once a year or less
Handles the gun away from the range once a year or less
New Learner Taken at least one formal course, could be military or law enforcement
Can draw and fire a gun from self-defense carry in the same manner consistently
Can clear a malfunction, but it’s very slow and has to think about it
Can reload the gun without having to think about it and can do it consistently
Can hit a man-sized target out to 10 yards
Has some formal learning about the law, either a CHL class or military/law enforcement class, or self-defense firearms course
Goes to the range a couple times a year
Understands dry fire practice and does it a couple times a year
Fighter Taken more than one formal class and tries to take one every other year or more
Can hit a target out to 25 yards
Draw and hit a target from self-defense carry in under 2.0 seconds at 5-7 yards
Can reload the gun under time pressure consistently around 3 seconds
Can clear malfunctions without a lot of thought
Can hit a man-sized target out past 25 yards and is learning his/her limits in distance
Can do headshots out to five yards consistently
Learning that fighting with a handgun is more than just shooting and is learning tactics
Continues to read and learn about the law. Knows that it is always changing. Understands how the courts also make self-defense law
Tries to go to the range more than a couple of times a year
Dry Fires once or twice a month
Advanced Fighter Going to multiple courses a year and has been doing it for years
Probably shoots competition
Goes to the range to practice with a plan
Try’s to learn tactics for fighting as much as shooting
Can draw and hit in 1.5 seconds at 5-7 yards
Reloads are below 2.5 seconds
Clears malfunctions without thinking and can have discussions about types and why he/she clears it in that manner
Can hit targets out to around 50 yards and know his/her distances
Can make headshots every time at 7 yards
Is practicing movement and shooting
Seeks training and knowledge in the law
Dry Fires more than 2 times per month
Tries to go to the range once a month and take 2 classes a year, ends up with a class and 10 range session a year
Competitor Drive to do everything better
25 draw looking for 1.00 or better
Reloads in under 2.0 looking for 1.5 or less
Can shoot and move in multiple ways
Is measuring split times and trying to be faster
Shoots competitions
Uses techniques in shooting from multiple people/instructors and disciplines
Does training range sessions
Dry fires almost daily
Knows the law and can teach a lot of it… still studying and reading
Reads books about shooting and the law
Understands the difference between shooting a competition and self-defense, works on both and has gear for both
Takes classes from people that have different techniques and thoughts on self-defense
Break down of other categories Knife Fighting More than one formal class
Weekly practice
Weekly training
Hand-to-Hand Formal classes
Weekly practice
Weekly training, always learning more techniques
Physical Fitness Looking fit
Can run away from a fight
Have more than normal strength for your size by doing weights
Can move on foot with equipment for a couple of miles without getting tired or winded
Avoidance Actively looking to stay away
Practicing de-escalation and understanding that “calm down” doesn’t always work
Always looking for trouble to learn who and where to avoid
Plays the “what if” game and asks the questions, “why is that person here?”
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Stay Safe,
Ben
P.S. I just set up a self-defense handgun course for Sep 2020 in San Antonio, check it out
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