I have recently been thinking about split times. Often you either hear they matter or they don't matter. Often this is an argument of "on the streets" vs something else. I was curious to see what others think on the subject and maybe develop some civil and productive conversations on the subject. My personal feelings on it is you should only shoot as fast as you can get hits that will put down an adversary. That speed can be dictated by quite a few different things, at least I think. The biggest is the ability for the shooter (lets take me) and his ability to process what is happening in the fight while I am shooting the subject. If my processing speed and ability to adjust based off of that is slower than my split time, does shooting fast matter? If not, why do we train to shoot faster and faster if we should instead be focusing on accuracy and decision making skills? Obviously being able to shoot fast and accurate would be the cats pajamas but eventually you sacrifice a little in each direction (for most shooters, some of you need a different hobby )
Look forward to thoughts on this.