Hey guys what's going on I'm retired Navy SEAL Chris Sajnog founder of
the new rules of marksmanship training system in this video I'm going to
discuss what is dry fire training let's go ahead and get started
I get the question all the time what is dry fire training most people when they
hear the term dry fire training they just think about pulling the trigger
like that is the only thing you can do and maybe we just need to change the
term that we use and sometimes I do and I talk about dry weapons manipulation or
dry weapons training because when I talk about dry fire training I'm talking
about anything that helps make you a better shooter it could be working on
your grip strength or your eyesight meditation so you're working on that
brain power up there to make you a better shooter it could be any
manipulation such as doing your reloads for clearing malfunctions in your gun
without having to shoot really anything besides making the gun go bang that
helps make you a better shooter is dry fire training so that is my definition
of it and I hope you accept that as well with that said let me give you ten steps
that are gonna help you every time you do Drive fire training that involves a
firearm so step number one is to always come up with a plan if you don't know
what you need to work on you're really wasting your time I don't want you to
just pull out your gun and start pulling the trigger or start really doing
anything with that gun without knowing what you need to work on hopefully you
have a training notebook that you're logging all your training in so you
should be able to look at that and go okay I need to work on say drawing my
pistol maybe drawing your pistol is the slowest part of you getting your first
shot off in a competition so if you can isolate exactly what you need to work on
and you write it down you'll be able to work on that and you'll be able to
progress in your shooting a lot faster so the next thing I want you to do is
make sure you go into a room by yourself hopefully you have a place in your home
or somewhere where you were you're alone and when you go into this space your
body every part about you know is hey this is where I do my dry-fire training
and your body's gonna start getting ready for that so go into this place and
make sure that it's quiet and nobody gonna disturb you so the next thing I
want you to do is make sure that you turn off your cell phone
turn off your iPad turn off your computer turn off your ps4 can't turn
your kids off I've got two kids I know anything you can that's gonna be a
distraction make sure you turn it off so you can focus on what you're doing and
you're dry fire-training so number four is you want to make sure that you clear
out your weapon both physically and visually just is also going to involve
your magazines so checking all your magazines or if you're wearing any gear
or equipment that could possibly have ammunition in it you want to make sure
that you check those and double-check them to make sure that there's no
possible way that any ammunition could get in your gun because when I say dry
fire training and I hear somebody else say oh I had a negligent discharge or an
accidental discharge when I was dry firing well guess what you weren't dry
fire training you were shooting a gun because dry fire art training by
definition or at least my definition does not involve any ammunition so with
that when you clear out your guns and you clear out your magazines and you
clear out all your gear take all that ammunition and the best thing to do is
to really put it in another room and make sure that there's no way that it
could possibly get into your gun it can't even get into the room now if
that's not possible at least make sure that you have a container that you can
lock put all your ammunition in so again there's no possible way that any
ammunition is getting in your gun all right number five is make sure you have
a target with a good solid bulletproof background I have a couple bulletproof
vests that I will actually set up and use for my dry fire training now you may
not have something that like that but some good alternatives are a brick wall
or a couple bricks that you can set up and put your target in front of either
way just make sure that there's nothing that you could possibly shoot that is in
line with the direction that your dry fire training and that is critical now
number six is like a mental thing that I want you to do but actually say to
yourself I am dry fire training right now
and maybe say it like three times there's been times where there's been
accidents that happen and maybe you've seen them on YouTube and they're tragic
where somebody goes to practice dry-fire training and something happens and then
they end up having a negligent discharge and I don't want that to happen to you
so say it I am dry fire training right now I am dry fire training and get that
into your neural pathway so your whole body knows this is it I'm not shooting a
gun I am practicing dry fire training right now number seven is just to go
through that list of the techniques that you want to work on
you've got your training notebook you've got it all out actually go through now
and do your dry fire training don't just go jumping around in randomly training
different things you want to do practice on what I call like your crux what do
you need to work on the most at this point in time in your training because
it changes everyday and that's why it's critical to have a training notebook so
go through that and once you're through with it then you can stop your training
but don't jump around and go oh yeah I also need to work on this if you think
you need to work on something else write it down in your training notebook so you
can train it later number eight is if you make a mistake
when you're training I want you to go back one step and correct it and do it
right the reason why is if you continue doing something wrong you're reinforcing
bad habits I can give you an example right here and let's say that I'm
practicing doing a magazine reload and I go to grab my magazine and I bring it up
and I just miss the magazine well like completely miss it what I want you to do
is go back one step so I'm going to go back to here and now I'm gonna do that
again properly and make sure that it goes in properly that time so whatever
it is when you're doing what I call isolation drills go back one step so
that you're doing it perfectly every time
now this doesn't apply if you're doing situational training like room-clearing
or something like that you don't want every time go back
and correct your mistakes because in situational training like that that's
what you want to do is you want to learn from those mistakes because different
things can happen but with the magazine reload there's only one way you want to
do it and you want to make sure that you're practicing it properly each time
so next up you just want to make sure that your dry-fire training session
should generally be between five and twenty minutes you don't want to sit and
work with your firearm so much that you start getting tired you start thinking
about other things that you need to do you just don't want to get distracted so
as long as you can maintain focus that is going to be the perfect time for you
so if you're starting to get distracted or you're starting to get frustrated
generally what I recommend is that you practice one thing that you can do
perfectly because you always want to end on doing something perfectly correct
each time you train but then just stop even if you're planning on practicing
for twenty minutes and five minutes into it you start to get frustrated or you
start to get distracted just go ahead and stop there's gonna be another day to
train and you want to make sure that you're training properly each time
alright so last up number ten is make sure that you look at your training look
at what you did look at what you did right and what you need to work on and
put that in your training notebook and this is critical because if you're not
writing down what you do the next time you go to Train generally you're just
gonna forget what you needed to do and maybe make the same mistakes that you
made last time so make sure you're logging all your training and keep that
notebook with you so you can review it all the time I hope these tips have
helped you hopefully you understand a little better what I talk about what
dry-fire training is and how to do it and until next time keep paving your
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