Originally Posted by
txdpd
And what training method would you recommend? I get that the technology to validate some sort of suppression of blink reflex when shooting is cost prohibitive to non-existent. There's nothing that I've seen that comes close to passing scientific muster, that someone can be trained to suppress a blink reflex. There are plenty of snake oil salesman peddling some sort of "numbing" to repetitive stimuli programs, like getting hit repeatedly in the face, air puffs, water drops, water spray, standing behind a plexiglass screen and getting bombarded with baseballs, etc, and there's not a single shred of evidence that any of that has ever trained someone not to blink.
We don't all get to be astronauts, some people are better than the rest us, because they are just better built than the rest of us.
I'm not going to disagree that part of being an elite shooter is keeping your eyes open while shooting, but that's part of what makes them elite. They can do something that most of us can't do