I'm best-selling author Chris Sajnog and today I'm going to share with you
three of the biggest training mistakes that people learning to shoot tend to
make and I'm also going to teach you how to instantly fix them and at the end I'm
also going to introduce you to a new product that I discovered that's really
going to help make your training a lot faster and a lot easier so let's go
ahead and get started
okay so if you know me you know I have a true passion for two things teaching
other people how to shoot and spending as much time as possible with my two
boys to accomplish this I develop the new rules of marksmanship training
system which really focuses on learning how to shoot at home so in this video
you're going to help me debunk three of the biggest myths I've heard over the
past 25 years of training literally thousands of people just like you so
that when you hear them you'll know the truth so what are they well myth number
one is the myth of recoil myth number two is that dry fire training damages
your gun and then myth number three is where should you train to shoot where's
the best place for that and by the way if you have questions or comments please
leave them below this video all right so let's start off talking about the myth
of recoil and the flinch now this is number one on the list because I hear it
all the time people will say you know it's not effective training if there's
no recoil or that the flinch your anticipation when you shooting is just a
biological response that everyone's just naturally going to have so first off
let's debunk this old-school myth that the gun is going to recoil or jump out
of your hands every time you shoot because it's just not true you know the
reason this happens is that most people just never learned how to hold the gun
properly I want you to think about this if you know you never learned how to use
a hammer before and how to hold it you know that pamorah would fly out of your
hands too but the great thing is the fix is really easy just learn how to hold
the gun before you go into the range and start making it go bang okay alright
next up is the flinch or anticipation when shooting and here's what you need
to understand is that natural response is built into your system you know it's
it's there to actually protect us it's to protect your head but when you are
shooting the gun the other way right the bullets going bang the other way in the
other direction there is no threat to your head
so that old-school thinking is like bio 101 but in psych 101
you learn about condition response and now I'm sure you know most of you know
what condition response is but for those of you that don't what a conditioned
response is it's simply something that you learn to do or you react to when one
thing happens okay so think about this like if you get a dog from the pound
that was beat you know its whole life growing up what's going to happen when
you reach down you know to pet that cute little puppy right it's going to flanger
it's going to recoil away from you and you know is your hand a threat obviously
not but you know neither is that little explosion going off when your gun is
pointed the other way so keep that in mind and really the great thing about
knowing this is that now you won't spend the rest of your life like really many
of my students have trying to fix these bad habits you know you'll know the
right way okay all right myth number two is that dry fire is somehow going to
damage your firearm you know your firearm is made to withstand the force
of thousands of explosions going off inside of the chamber so you know dry
fire training is not going to damage your gun and if it does thank God that
it happens during dry fire training because you know if that thing broke on
the range while you were shooting you know which it would have happened much
sooner actually then you know that that could cause serious damage not just to
your gun but also to you so unless you're using you know a rimfire or a
poorly made firearm dry fire training is going to actually do less damage to your
firearm then doing live-fire training and if you are concerned about it
there's things like snap caps you can use or the product I'm going to talk
about later the IEEE target training system so you know don't worry about dry
fire training and really the the part you're really going to love is that by
using dry fire training techniques you know you can do them at home and just
like I teach in the new rules of marksmanship you will be saving a ton of
time and money just by doing it at home we're on myth number three now
that's the myth of where you should be training so you know I really saved the
biggest myth and the most ludicrous myth for last because it's really going to
change the way you train forever and I hear so many people say that you know
training with airsoft is not realistic or training dry fire training or with
laser targets you know they're not realistic but here's what I asked those
people and here's what I want you to ask yourself right now
you know it's this question is going to arrange and shooting at a paper target
that doesn't move it doesn't shoot back at you you can only shoot in one
direction you know is that realistic training and you know I'm really hoping
right now that everybody watching this like lightbulbs just went off and you're
like oh wow that is not realistic at all because you
know in real training you need to be able to move around and you can't do
that live fire on a range right if you do you'll probably get kicked off the
range now don't get me wrong there is definitely a time and a place for live
fire training and it's something that you must do to really verify your
training but the range is not the best place for you to train I mean that's
just you know a fact you know you should be learning at home and you know there's
some great training tools and systems out there that you can use to really
improve your training that weren't even around a few years ago
so listen by learning the right way at home first and then going to the range
you'll be able to spend a lot more time you know chasing your your kids around
then you are going you know you're spending right now chasing rounds around
your target at the range okay so that went a little longer than I thought but
I thought it's really critical for you to understand why I like this product so
much you know and I really think it might possibly revolutionize the way
that you learn to shoot and it's it's called the AI target training system and
full disclosure is that this was a free unit that was sent to me I'm not being
paid for this review but I really think it's a great product and that's why I
wanted to talk to you about it alright so what is it well it's a new laser
target training system that you Liza's the camera in your smartphone and
it gives you instant feedback and it's the first system that I've found that
does that you know uses something that you carry around in your pocket all the
time and if you've gone through my new rules of marksmanship course you know
constant feedback or rule number seven is really critical for rapid learning
now one of the cool features I've discovered using this is that you can
actually track your progress you know as you go and it's really cool and I think
it's an important thing and I'm sure you've even heard me say it before but
if you're not tracking your training what you're doing is called playing so
you know this is not a toy although it does definitely make train training a
lot more fun so you can pick one of these up for you know it's like under
100 bucks and you know so if you want to save money when you're training I'd say
get one of these because you know if you look at just the cost of going to the
range one time you know it can easily go over a hundred dollars with targets and
ammunition and stuff so it pays for itself really quickly I think it's a
great investment in your training and it's also just going to help you train a
lot more effectively so anyway that's all I have for this video but I want you
to remember these three things number one is that recoil is a myth that can be
busted by learning how to hold your gun number two is that dry fire is only
going to damage your gun if it's a rimfire gun or the gun is already
damaged and then number three is that you need to train at home it's really
the best place so if you're interested in picking one of these up I will put a
link below this video to their website and you can check that out you know I
really think it's worth it one of the only drawbacks I've found is that you
can't compensate for bullet drop so you know you can't go in there and you know
point of aim point of impact which you're going to get with any laser
training system but I don't think it's that big of a deal simply because you
know you're going to be using it close in and that's really not going to come
into play number one and then number two is you know if your whole
goal especially when it comes to accuracy is really just getting better
groups you know on a target you know so and that's going to happen if you can do
it with the the eye target here or really any laser training system airsoft
even you know that will translate to accurate rounds downrange
on your target when you're shooting a live fire so anyways go ahead and check
it out if you have again any questions or comments please leave them below the
video thanks for watching and until we train again keep paving your path to
perfection