Originally Posted by
rob_s
I'd rather teach people to be competent enough in their shooting that they can make the decision to look for bad guys where they might be rather than flopping their head around on the range thinking they're accomplishing anything.
And that is called Bunkai.
It's ironic that you are so dismissive of martial arts concepts and wish to divorce them from firearms training when you seem to understand many martial arts concepts without being aware of it. It is also ironic that you don't seem to accept there are certain constants in any form of combat even though you seem to already know it.
Sadly I'd estimate that 50% of people in the martial arts are simply going through the motions with no real understanding, or worse an extremely misguided or impractical understanding of the meaning of those movements.
The "application" of a given movement in "kata" is called "bunkai."
And one could easily have two groups of 10 students doing the same drill / kata and group A would be shaking their head back and forth and doing nothing more productive than expelling sweat from their hair and group B while doing exactly the same drill / kata would then begin to actively search their environment for the next threat.
One of the real problems with this is that at most ranges you must keep your firearm oriented in a safe direction so students do not do a 360 degree scan that you would do in the real world. This is obviously for safety concerns so students don't start turning all the way around with guns in their hands.
But the difference between a person who simply turns their head back and forth without any real understanding of why and a person who now looks for the next possible threat, even when doing the exact same exercise, is of course the result of their instruction and the ability of the instructor to transmit information.
As in the martial arts, there are plenty of people doing movements that are completely useless to them because they were never taught the true application (bunkai) and now these things have become a pointless cultural formality.
It's hard to be a ACLU hating, philosophically Libertarian, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, scientifically grounded, agnostic, porn admiring gun owner who believes in self determination.
Chuck, we miss ya man.
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