I'm Chris Sajnog author of the new book Navy SEAL shooting which goes on
sale August 31st and today I'm going to teach you how to dry fire by planning
preparing and practicing at home which is going to save you a lot of time and
money so let's go ahead and get started
all right so when I talk about dry fire training or dry weapons training keep in
mind that it really means anything that helps make you a better shooter so
whether that's working on your grip strength or doing eye exercises even
meditation don't think it just means you know that narrow process of just
dropping the hammer because it's really so much more so here's the simple
process that you need to go through each time you want to plan out your training
prepare your space and practice deliberately okay so what do each of
those mean well the first one plan out your training use the GPS model have it
written down next is you want to prepare the space so think about things like
separate safe and sound have a place to practice and set it up for success this
is what I practice so this is why I filmed my videos here and you want to
really make sure you keep out all live ammunition either physically lock it up
keep it out of the room you don't want any of it within arm's reach if you have
a weapon like I do within arm's reach you know in your house all the time make
sure you train somewhere else check and recheck to make sure that your firearm
is unloaded because you can never be too safe when you're training finally you
want to control the sound in your space you know you don't want to be disturbed
or distracted but you know some people want to listen
to music it helps them if you think about great athletes you know they'll
walk out with their headphones on because what they're doing is they're
getting in the zone because they've trained and they visualize listening to
that exact same music so try that out on your own and see if that works for you
the last thing you want to do is practice deliberately so deliberate
practice means that you have a reason for everything you're doing so an
example might be if you want to improve your pistol draw most people would just
go to the range and draw and shoot you know a full magazine of ammo and kind of
wonder well why am I not getting any better and then if you have you know a
good instructor he might say well hey only shoot two rounds okay draw
your pistol shoot two rounds because that way each time you draw you will be
getting more draws in that makes sense right well if you really understand how
training works you're going to understand that
shooting the gun has nothing to do with drawing it and in fact it's going to
make it harder for you to learn so just practice drawing the gun and as a new
rule shooter I want you to actually break down that draw into different
parts and practice each one as you need you know there's certain parts you're
going to need to practice more than more than others so for instance if you break
it down into four parts like your hand going to the gun the gun coming out of
the holster your hands coming together and then pressing the gun straight out
you could break down each one of those four parts so I'll just demo for you
real quick my hand going to the gun okay so I planned out my training so these
are the steps I wrote it down okay I know what I'm gonna do I prepared my
space there's no ammo here in fact I'm I'm using a laser gun so definitely no
ammo and you know I'm warmed up I've done some meditation some visualization
that's very important because I always try to to meditate before I train but if
nothing else I'll do I exercise is to get warmed up I'll definitely visualize
so I'll just close my eyes and picture what I want my hand to do you know so I
picture my hand going back what I wanted to do is I want this hand to come back
in an arc and come forward on the gun and if I can do that that's perfect for
me and it also helps I can I could also videotape myself and you can do this or
have somebody watch you especially when you're first learning something don't
just start off and do a bunch of repetitions and not get that constant
feedback that you need so dry fire or dry weapons training in this instance
for me is going to be doing this move over and over until I it's ingrained and
every time no matter what position I'm in my hand
is going to come back and go forward into the gun and get the perfect grip
for me and that's what you need to do and then I break down each part and when
I've done all four parts perfectly then I put them all together and I'll have a
perfect draw stroke every time I need to get my gun out of the holster okay so I
want you to do the same thing when you train too and when you're done this is
very important is make sure if you carry loaded or you keep your weapons in a
loaded condition after you're done practicing and you load your weapon make
sure you say out loud my weapon is now loaded it's very important you may sound
silly saying it but you'll sound much sillier if you put around somewhere
where you don't intend to and you forget that your guns loaded and you you tried
dry fire practicing again another note when you're training is trained to a
standard trained you know don't tell yourself I'm gonna practice for for 15
minutes say hey I'm gonna do 15 perfect repetitions and when I do 15 perfect
repetitions then I'll be done because if you train train for a time it might take
you 1 it might take you 15 minutes to do one repetition you know but you do what
it takes to get better don't don't train to a time clock so that's it that is dry
weapons training in a nutshell breaking things down using the new rules of
marksmanship to become a better shooter so I hope this helps you out if you have
questions or comments of course leave them down below this video and until
next time keep paving your path to perfection