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- Sep 26, 2018
It's the difference between sport and practical skill. Any amount of shooting practice is going to be better than not, but competition only really teaches you how to shoot competition. That's perfectly fine as there is a lot of overlap between the sport and the real world but you're never really going to know how good you are until you need to use those skills.
Which brings up a different conversation about the type of training you do vs the situations you might find your self in. It's questionable whether all this John Wick larping is going to help you when 3 spics jump you in the night or break in to your house. There are guys out there that get dressed up in their SEAL cosplay and train hard with their tacticool Gucci gamer AR's/Glawk's but use a shotgun for home defence. I'm not trying say any of those skills are useless, but I do feel like people have got themselves in a strange mind set when it comes to self-defence and competition has got a lot of guys unable to think outside of the box.
Training is fantastic and absolutely necessary but it shouldn't be confused with real world experience and people who do have a real problem with overconfidence. James Yeager is a great example of a guy who's done a lot of training but when the chips are down he shits the bed hard and got people killed. It's not firearms related but a friend of mine is serious fighter, he's a boxer and a brown belt in BJJ. The dude is never out of the gym and when he says he can handle himself in fight I believe him but if he gets jumped by 2 guys with knives, he's dead. If he grapples a guy to the ground and that dudes friend comes out of nowhere and stomps on the back of his head, he's dead.
Nobody wants to hear this when they've invested a lot of time, money, blood, sweat and tears in to something but all the training in the world isn't going to help you if you have a poor understanding of the situations that your most likely to find you're self in. You'd be better off trading all these tattooed up, roided out, beard having "instructors" for some real hood niggas. They'll tell you the truth that the most important things in a fight are the element of surprise and numbers and the only way to win these fights are to not fight them in the first place.
This is why situational awareness and good judgement are the foundation of surviving a gunfight, street fight or just crossing the street. The world is a dynamic place that you can never really prepare for and your not going to be as prepared for a mugging as a mugger will be. It's cheap to learn too, head up, eyes forward, take your fucking earphones out and pay attention to your environment. It's that easy but you try to teach this to gun enthusiast and he turns into a paranoid fucker who jumps every time a brotha walks past him or joins that sheepdawg larp and ends up being the most conspicuous human being possible who you can guarantee has several hundred dollars in shit on him. You see these dudes swinging their head left to right like a fucking owl after mag dumping a paper target 10m away. Bro we all know you didn't take in shit after that "scan" and even if you did the real world is full of shit that the range your on doesn't have, so your giving yourselves whiplash for no reason.
The gun community has a real problem with fat overconfident retards who think the the superior training they've received from "insert ex-military turned e-celeb" and the skills they've honed at "insert competition" have made them
Which brings up a different conversation about the type of training you do vs the situations you might find your self in. It's questionable whether all this John Wick larping is going to help you when 3 spics jump you in the night or break in to your house. There are guys out there that get dressed up in their SEAL cosplay and train hard with their tacticool Gucci gamer AR's/Glawk's but use a shotgun for home defence. I'm not trying say any of those skills are useless, but I do feel like people have got themselves in a strange mind set when it comes to self-defence and competition has got a lot of guys unable to think outside of the box.
Training is fantastic and absolutely necessary but it shouldn't be confused with real world experience and people who do have a real problem with overconfidence. James Yeager is a great example of a guy who's done a lot of training but when the chips are down he shits the bed hard and got people killed. It's not firearms related but a friend of mine is serious fighter, he's a boxer and a brown belt in BJJ. The dude is never out of the gym and when he says he can handle himself in fight I believe him but if he gets jumped by 2 guys with knives, he's dead. If he grapples a guy to the ground and that dudes friend comes out of nowhere and stomps on the back of his head, he's dead.
Nobody wants to hear this when they've invested a lot of time, money, blood, sweat and tears in to something but all the training in the world isn't going to help you if you have a poor understanding of the situations that your most likely to find you're self in. You'd be better off trading all these tattooed up, roided out, beard having "instructors" for some real hood niggas. They'll tell you the truth that the most important things in a fight are the element of surprise and numbers and the only way to win these fights are to not fight them in the first place.
This is why situational awareness and good judgement are the foundation of surviving a gunfight, street fight or just crossing the street. The world is a dynamic place that you can never really prepare for and your not going to be as prepared for a mugging as a mugger will be. It's cheap to learn too, head up, eyes forward, take your fucking earphones out and pay attention to your environment. It's that easy but you try to teach this to gun enthusiast and he turns into a paranoid fucker who jumps every time a brotha walks past him or joins that sheepdawg larp and ends up being the most conspicuous human being possible who you can guarantee has several hundred dollars in shit on him. You see these dudes swinging their head left to right like a fucking owl after mag dumping a paper target 10m away. Bro we all know you didn't take in shit after that "scan" and even if you did the real world is full of shit that the range your on doesn't have, so your giving yourselves whiplash for no reason.
The gun community has a real problem with fat overconfident retards who think the the superior training they've received from "insert ex-military turned e-celeb" and the skills they've honed at "insert competition" have made them
