The reality behind "Slow is smooth and smooth is fast."

[nwhpfan]

So, what you're saying is that while smooth isn't necessarily fast, fast pretty much has to be smooth?

Smooth is absent mistakes. Fixing/adjusting to mistakes costs time.

To be fast you have to move fast. Moving fast without making mistakes is even faster.

[jetfire]

How do we have 11 pages on this topic.

"You have to go faster to get faster and wasted motion is dumb."

[Wondering Beard]

Because we are all exceedingly intelligent people who provide nuance.

...

Or we just like to nit pick and talk.

[Lomshek]

Or we just like to nit pick and talk.

And then there's that!

[98z28]

I prefer to break it down into "be fast" and "be sure" moments, as in: be fast to the gun, be sure of the grip, be fast to get the gun out of the holster, be sure of your sights. When it's time to be fast, nothing else will do, but only if the right things happened first.

I like this. Great way to break it down.

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[dbateman]

I disagree.
They under-detail it, or they truly believe it literally.

To be honest I have never really heard the saying used in shooting/gun handling training.

The first time I heard it was in relation to driving, it was explained to me as slow is smooth smooth is fast IE learn to do a task technically correct to the point it is subconscious then learn to go fast.

Technique and speed training are to different things. You don't get fast without training to get fast and you don't get technique without training it.

You can be fast with incorrect technique but you'll also be ineffective.