When it comes to training in anything, there are aways fundamentals, and those fundamentals are worth practicing over and over and over.
In fact, many world class individuals will tell you that they focus on the fundamentals and not on the fancy flashy moves and ideas. They just keep going back to the basics and never allow themselves to tire of working on them relentlessly.
When thinking about this concept, I’m reminded of a story about a swordsman in the times when rapiers were the preferred weapons of “gentlemen.”
Now, with that type of weapon, the focus is on puncture wounds, not cutting, so, this particular person had a human sized dummy set up for him with three buttons sewn on it, and he practiced for several hours each day poking the tip of his rapier at only those buttons.
In fact, he did this so much that people began to mock him for stabbing buttons as his practice.
But when he had an altercation in which swords came out, like all of us, he defaulted to his training. He hit his targets (the locations on his opponent’s body where the buttons on his practice dummy were) quickly and accurately. And he was the one who survived the duel.
He went from the one who was mocked to someone who was respected as a proficient swordsman.
In the same way, with our firearms training and practice, we should focus on fundamentals over and over and over.
Now, with rifle training, the most basic fundamental is the up draw (some would say “updraw”). Get that wrong or do it inefficiently, and you may not get a second chance to get it right. That’s why Caleb with Patriot Training Center has a video for us going over exactly that.
You can watch it below.
Now, Caleb makes the up draw look easy and simple.
And it is.
But that doesn’t change the fact that if you don’t practice it to the point that you do it right every time out of habit, then, you haven’t practiced it enough.
And if you do your up draw right every time, good for you! Time to practice it some more.
Because the fundamentals are worth practicing over and over and over. It may be your life that you save through that practice.
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