I was talking with @JCS the other day regarding analogies to shooting. He has a high level competitive basketball background.
Came up with the following analogy:
A lot of the “tactical” fundamental drills are stand and shoot drills. A number of the older USPSA classifiers are like that too.
But the sport itself is dynamic with movement and judgement. Something that isn’t logistically feasible on a qualification or a standard.
To the point that special forces like Delta may use stand and shoot drills to meet minimum basic requirements, but they spend a lot of time practicing the dynamic aspect in shoot houses.
So I was trying to make the point of free throws versus court skills.
He made the following observation that I didn’t realize but supports that understanding.
@Clark JacksonWhat’s interesting about basketball is that people can be good free throw shooters (80%+) and be poor three point shooters which is in game and dynamic. But you rarely ever find someone who is an excellent three point shooter and a poor free throw shooter. The mechanics of shooting a basketball dynamically carry over but not static.
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Stand and shoot skills as a fundamental, testable baseline is a good starting point for skill assessment.
But assuming that most self defensive shooting might incorporate some dynamic component, it would make sense to move on to dynamic training. USPSA for all the gaming criticisms is good for that. Of course some people try to do dynamic training without a good fundamental stand and shoot background and that doesn’t work very well either….