Chris Sajnog: Hey guys, I'm Chris Sajnog. And in this video,
let's talk about if you can actually focus on your front
sight when you're under stress. Let's go ahead and get started.
Joining me now is retired Navy SEAL sniper, Chris Sajnog.
Alright, so I talk a lot about front sight focus, and the
importance of it when you're shooting any open sighting
system to actually be able to hit your target. Hopefully,
that's your goal. But the question always comes up, are
you able to actually focus on the front sight when you're
under stress? Now, a lot of people will say that, no, you
can't, you can't focus on your front sight. They'll also say,
you can't manipulate your slide, stop, or even control your
trigger under stress. The theory is that with all the stresses
that are coming to you, for whatever reason, that you only
have gross motor skills, you lose all fine motor skills, all
these terrible things happen to you. But here's the thing, they
affect people in different ways, depending on how they've
trained. So if you have trained to under stress, be able to
focus on your front sight and you've under stress train being
able to manipulate your trigger properly, you'll be able to do
it because you've built strong enough neural pathways to be
able to protect yourself from those hormones that are going to
be rushing into your system. So I think a lot of people who say
that you can't do it. Number one, they've never been in a
stressful situation, to be able to even talk intelligently about
whether you can or can't. The other one is they weren't
properly trained before they got into that stressful situation.
If you haven't practiced under stress, and focusing on that
front sight, you're not going to be able to do it just like
anything else that happens under stress. And that's why it's so
important to ingrain these skills in your muscle memory by
building strong neural pathways through repetition. And that
repetition needs to start off without stress. And it needs to
start off in your home practicing repetition after
repetition build a strong neural pathway, you will be able to see
the front sight, no matter what stress happens. If I knew that
one day, I was going to have to shoot a basketball with my eyes
closed, I wouldn't start off practicing with my eyes closed,
I would start off practicing where I could see very clearly
find one spot. And I shoot perfectly from that spot over
and over with my eyes open because I'm building those
neural pathways for that movement. And when I have them
built up enough, guess what I can close my eyes and the balls
going in the hoop. So it's the same thing with shooting. If I
practice shooting and being able to see that front sight every
single time crystal clear, I'm building not just a neural
pathway with my eyes, but with my body with my hands with my
arms, everything is coming together and being able to
accomplish that task that we need to accomplish to as I like
to say continue to deliver exceptional customer service,
practice under stress and you will be able to see the front
sight when if you need to. So that's it for now. I hope this
helps you out and until next time, keep paving your path to
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