Hey guys what's going on Chris Sajnog here founder of the new rules of marksmanship
training system and in this video I just want to teach you how to measure your
training now let's go ahead and get started
one of the most common questions I get is how to measure your training
obviously I'm big on training I think it's the most important thing if you're
gonna carry a firearm but people want to know how do you measure that
and they usually want to know like a benchmark score or a benchmark time
what's a good time for for doing a certain drill or what what's a good
score and I will tell you I do not use benchmarks at all and I'm gonna tell you
why you shouldn't either anytime you use benchmarks what they're
gonna do is they're gonna hinder your training and what do I mean by that well
I mean if you're a good shooter and I tell you that say it should take you two
seconds to draw from your holster and hit the center of the target one time if
you're a good shooter you're going to get to that point very quickly and then
you're gonna think okay well I'm at the top so I don't need to go any further
and if you're not a good shooter or say you're just learning then what's gonna
happen is you're gonna look at that and you're gonna go wow you know I could
never reach that and it's gonna be like this glass ceiling that you can't break
through so do not use benchmarks at all they're just going to hurt you so what
do I measure well I actually measure your training the best way to measure
how your training is going is by actually measuring the training because
that is something that you can control you can control it every day where you
can't control a score on a target that's already over so if you're trying to
measure your score or measure your time you're always measuring what's called
lag measures you're measuring something that's lagging behind the actual event
and that is the gun going bang so we want to measure what happens before the
gun goes bang and those are called lead measures and those are things that you
can change every time you train so let me give you an example that probably
most of you are used to or you've heard of it and that would be like losing
weight what most people do when they try to lose weight is they measure their
weight on a scale and that sounds pretty reasonable we all do it I've done it but
we've also all been frustrated by it and why is that well because you can not
control what you did the week before that got that weight on the scale right
there so what if you knew that if you worked out for 20 minutes a day and you
didn't eat so many donuts and you kept track of that throughout the week the
scale is going to be a byproduct of what you are measuring and that's what you
need to do with your firearms training too so let's say when it comes to
shooting if you knew that your score would get better or your time would get
faster if you worked on your vision because your vision is gonna help you
shoot better or maybe it's your grip strength or any type of dry-fire
training if you do that each and every day you're going to be getting better so
that's what I want you to measure I want you to measure those lead measures not
the lag measures of your score or your time so that is it for today I hope this
video has helped and until next time keep paving your path to perfection hey
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