Hock, I am the last one to use the term "Ninja" and also mentioned the DVDs. First off it was not intended to down play videos yours or anybody elses. I tend to type as I think, and not very properly in a grammatical sense.
What I was trying to say is that let's get this guy through the gun handling skills, malfunction drills, draw stroke, ect. before we introduce the combat shooting and worry about who's DVDs he buys or who he pays for instruction. The important thing is that he gets it.
And I whole hartedly agree that too many "experts" or "elite shooters" wow everybody with there range skills were the targets don't shoot back.
The best training, SIMS force on force, and SIMS (me) vs. fully automatic paintball gun (instructor).
The worst? Aside from the the B.S. MILES training in the military - That little lazer gets deflected by a leaf or smoke. It teaches soldiers that they can hide beind a bush as someone blazes away with an M-60.
I went to one shooting school that although teaching defensive/combat shooting worried too much about stance, as if you can hit the target with your foot here, but not there. And worst of all, tried to instruct the class to close one eye. EVEN AT THE THREE YARD LINE!! Only after seeing my shooting did they stop trying to correct my both eyes open style.
Then the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) where again, stance seemed to be very important. On a practical excersise involving SIMS the senario had two officers pull up to a convience store to look for an individual for questioning. While exiting the vehicle to approach individuals in the parking lot, a gun shot rang out in the "store". After taking cover behind the car (closest cover), the first indiviual runs out of the store unarmed. A no-shot situation. Suddenly the gunman exits the store. After commands to drop his weapon, he raises it.
At this point my partner and I fire hitting the gunman several time in the chest and head. He goes down like a good role player.
Now I should mention that the car is in direct line of sight/fire of the open door. The store is dark and I cannot see inside. All of my previous training has been to shoot from cover, and then move to diff. cover. If you continue to emerge from the same place you will get hit. If the badguy figures out your pattern, he will be waiting to pop on in your head.
So after the gunman goes down, I move to diff. cover. After reaching new cover, I signal my partner to do the same. Well at this point the instructors are goin nuts, as we are not "playing by the rules". In other words we were screwing up their canned senerio.
About this time I notice a door begin to open and a shotgun barrel start to emerge. From my covered position, I order the gunman to drop his weapon and move to the open. What a suprise for the gunman as this was another instructor and I was still supposed to be behind the car in that last known predictable location.
Well the argument afterwards almost got me thrown out of the acadamy. I had some "expert" telling me that all of the training I receive in the Army on tactics, CQB and urban warfare were incorrect. But then again it was his show, and sometimes you just have to shut up and smile.
Tactics and basics are all symantics. Can you handle your weapon safely? Can you hit your target? Can you hit your target while not getting hit yourself? As long as you can acheive those and your training works towards that goal, then who cares how you stand or anything else. Just get the job done and survive the fight.
