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You know what, Joel? Let's do some training. Okay, put your [ __ ] on. Oh, sorry, put your hearing protection on. Yeah, this is family-friendly. Ben, I want to do some training, bucko. I thought you said you were doing some training. No, that's good. I shot all Alphas. That's good. Very lame to me. All right, yeah.
So right now, I'm just proving to myself I can shoot in a way that I'm comfortable and put him in the middle. That's not very productive for training. Let's try to shoot a little more aggressively. And what I, what I want to change with the aggression level is really what I'm looking to react to from the sight. As I try to go faster and faster, I'm reacting to less and less information. What's appropriate on targets at this distance, in my view, is just registering the color of my sight and a spot in the middle of the target. So let's speed it up.
All right, it's going okay. We're shooting at what I would consider to be like a match pace. A's and close C's, enough accountability for hit factor matches or USPSA matches. Now let's go even faster. Right, Joel? Yeah.
All right, so this, what are we going to run into? Well, well, in one way or the other, when you try to go faster, some form of tension is going to creep in for everyone. Yes, that's going to happen in different ways for some people. You'll see their shoulders really tense up, or like their shoulders exaggerating a little bit, but not necessarily shoulders go up, head goes down. Maybe just shoulders go up. Maybe you see more like chest, upper body lock out. They'll start shoving the gun around more. You'll see the firing hand tension creep in where they're trying to like stop the gun from recoiling. Lots of bad things. So if we say, Ben, just go faster, go faster, of those variables could happen. Yeah, let's see what. Big difference between winging it and seeing what happens, Joel. And let's see what happens exactly.
Ooh, the tension's coming in, baby. You're still sending it though, bro. Oh, okay. Good. I tried to push hard enough. The tension has now found me. Now I think on that run, double Charlie on the last target, one Charlie over here. That's, uh, getting to the point where I don't have the accountability I want. But if I say, Ben, what happened? You can articulate to me. I can feel the pressure coming into my shoulders and I basically, maybe I shouldn't say this, but I basically, whatever you're getting ready to say, don't say it. Well, no, it's not about strippers or hose or guns or drugs or nothing like that, Joel. I'm just saying I basically threw the gun at this target. It landed over here and I double Charli-ed it because I'm throwing the gun over here because I'm trying to go fast. Building tension. Mmm.
Now, what I would articulate, the pace that I'm shooting here, this is the training zone. This is the training zone. This is where I want to do 80% of the training that I do. Where it's faster than comfortable, maybe faster than real life or faster than competition speed. I'm uncomfortable and I'm starting to build tension or make other mistakes. There's like foundational errors are starting to creep in, but I can still see and articulate the mistakes that are happening. If I go faster than this or more aggressively than this, I'm, I'm, I'm going to lose that sense of accountability or just being, being aware of what's happening. So that's going to become unproductive. Good training has you shooting in a way that you're not comfortable. That's really how you're going to learn. And that's so hard for people to force themselves to do.
Let's trigger some people and put this into context. Trigger. You see, uh, videos online, possibly on Instagram, where somebody shoots a very, like a lightning fast pace. Looks incredible. And you, if you're good at reading body language, when they walk down to the target, they're learning the first time if those bullets. We're all going to find out together, baby. We walk down there. Tag your favorite instructor below. But, uh, no, for real, like that happens. So you can do that if you want to feed the Gram. I mean, whatever. But that's not where training's at because there's an amount of luck there, right? Like if I, if you give, yeah, you get banned enough, you know, steroids, alcohol, drugs, uh, encouragement, he could keep doing that and he'll land all Alphas at some point. It'll be good. That's not luck. If I do it 200 times and I get one of them where I want, and then I post that one on Instagram, is that luck? 100%. Yeah, you're right. But you get to a point where like that's not productive training at all.
The pace Ben was just shooting at, he can tell me what's going on. He's working through tension, he's working through the issues he feels, but he's aware of everything that happens, right? Nothing was a mystery to you? Not really. If he gets to the point where it's a mystery and you're like, I'm not really sure. Like the only, the only mystery that's left is women, you know? Yeah. Question with no answer. So the only, uh, if you, uh, if you walk down range and you like, yep, I know exactly what happened. I felt, I think one of the shots went a little bit low left. Like you kind of, a little bit of question marks, but roughly what idea what happened. That's what we're looking for. Again, you're able to, you're able to train at a pace that you can track what's happening. It's not a mystery. Yes. And you're just a little bit uncomfortable. Yeah.
So what, again, for most people, they're, they're not going to do this. They won't push themselves like this on their own. I mean, within the bounds of safety, you should, you should try to do this, uh, in your individual training. And I think you're going to learn so much more, so much faster. Yes.