Originally Posted by
Voodoo_Man
Not here no, but I have seen more people than not say it's training and have heard in various classes run by instructors who have made their name in the gaming world say "competition is the only way you get better". Not only is that not true, it's disingenuous. In a perfect world you'd train FoF with different partners every single day at 100% each time.
I truly believe you are missing the forest for the trees with your crusade against 'the gamers.' You can learn a lot from competition. The trick is to understand what is tactically sound and what isn't.
If you look at the trainers who plussed up our military at the beginning of the GWOT, many, if not most of them, had no military or police background, they were competitive shooters, John Shaw comes to mind.
In another vein, Rob Vogel seems to have effectively moved back and forth between gaming and real-world, pretty sure he feels his efforts inpractical shooting helped him become safer as a police officer.
As I mentioned earlier, sure an individual can over do it, but that is on the individual.
In a perfect world you'd train FoF with different partners every single day at 100% each time. I don't know, that sounds like competition to me, could me wrong, though.
Last edited by 26 Inf; 12-21-18 at 22:19.
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