Okay, so these aren't really in the style of Pistol Forum and I made them for a different forum.
But I am interested in discussing them from theory and training standpoint.
And wanted to share what I noticed doing them.
I do these "experiments" to broaden my experience and knowledge. Because you don't know what you don't know.
When I was car racing, my primary competition was dry asphalt... but I found that training on mud, ice, snow and rain helped me develop skills that were very useful for dry asphalt racing.
That's kind of my thought with doing some of these ridiculous things. Because it's DIFFERENT than what I would normally do on a square range indoors.
I admit that they are ridiculous if you take them at face value, but keep an open mind.
- Collateral scene: Vickers thinks it's the best shooting scene from a technical standpoint so I wanted to try it. It was tough to not fully press out like I was used to. For the second target, it's supposed to be a triple dropper that didn't drop.
- Thumb on back plate was suggested by a LEO friend who does that drill with his team. I had never shot like that before and don't know when I would use that technique but if a police dept uses it for training, I thought I would add it to the repertoire. It was interesting having to program racking the slide in my head and I'm going to add induced malfunction drills more to my practice.
- The punch and draw drill was also suggested by a LEO friend. In reviewing video afterwards, I tried to clear my garment with my non-punching hand... adding time and not having purpose. I am going to practice doing other things with my hands right before concealed drawing to mix it up. Maybe set up a very extended delayed timer and do some woodworking or something until it goes off.
- Triple nickel, but with varying heights and shapes of targets. Transitioning at speed when it's not just in one transition axis like normal drills... wanted to see if I could do it.
And the video that's likely going to raise some hackles.
Parlor trick? Sure, but I think it underscores the importance of training with weak hand (not like this, though!) and having index so rock solid that you can recoil control and stay on target, even when your brain is doing something else. In order to recoil control and point both guns at the same time... it really has to be automatic.
I could feel both sides of my brain working as I was using both hands, it was very interesting.