Hey guys Chris Sajnog our best-selling author of how to shoot like a Navy SEAL
and Navy SEAL shooting and the founder of the new rules of marksmanship now in
this video I want to just quickly teach you how to use a front sight focus
string and why it's important so let's go ahead and get started all right so
why is actually learning to focus why is that important why are you watching why
are you here when it comes to hitting your target it is critical to be able to
focus on your front sight post when you're using open sights so you've got a
front sight post in a rear sight post or whether you've got an aperture in a
front sight post whatever you're doing whatever system you have learning to
focus is critical and that's what I'm going to teach you how to do with this
front sight focus tool by being able to do that you're going to be able to hit
your targets and you're going to be able to do it super accurately and a lot
faster because sometimes it's just a matter of being able to quickly focus on
that front sight post so I'm going to teach you how to do that now the problem
really comes in and I was a big part of this problem when I ran the seal sniper
training program I didn't teach people how to focus I taught them that they had
to focus I didn't teach that process I didn't know how that process worked
until I started working on the new rules of marksmanship and started learning
about how the eyes work and it was actually a episode of brain games where
they had these kind of visual illusions that I really started getting into the
eyes and how they work and how I can teach that to benefit my students in
shooting so that's what I'm going to do here is really teach you very quickly
how to focus your eyes to start off with I'm going to give you the scientific
explanation of how this focused string and using it is actually going to help
like how does it work because some of you are like me you're all geeked out on
this science stuff I love it so it is going to teach you to increase
awareness of the vergence the aiming system and how it coordinates with
accommodative focusing system to develop voluntary control of Virgen skills while
maintaining binocular visual eye movement and establish central
peripheral flexibility okay so that's the scientific explanation I hope that
made sense to you if it didn't go back and listen to it a couple times and
you'll get it it's just taking your eyes you have two different pictures and
you're going to be able to teach them to converge come together on one spot and
we want that to be the front sight post so to get started it's super easy I sell
these front sight focus rings on my website you don't need to buy it but
otherwise you got to go to the store and buy like a thousand beads because you
apparently can't buy five of them something to attach it some string but
if you have that stuff around by all means you don't need to buy my thing I
hope you do help put my kids through college that'd be awesome but this is it
it's a piece of string with some beads on it and these beads can move around
and that's going to be important so to use this what you're going to do is you
take this end and just attach it you want something that's just a little bit
below your eye level so you want to be looking just down just a little bit you
don't have to be looking straight down but just a little bit below your line of
sight so you attach that to one end and then you're going to take the other end
and you stretch this out and start off with the first bead is going to be say
like six inches away from your nose and you just hold it and I'm going to look
silly here so so don't mind me I'm already married so I can look silly and
I got kids that I'm Barris all the time but just hold it to your nose
okay and this is going to be tight so you may need to back up or whatever away
from your object and put that to your nose and adjust this bead or you know if
you have beads that slide around if you make your own the ones I do are really
nice they fit so you can slide them and they'll stay i
bought other ones online when i first started doing this and they would slide
all over the place but you can glue those on all you have to do then is just
adjust this difference here okay so distance to your nose adjust it that way
so just as easy but that's where you start off and you want to start here and
stay here until you see one bead you want to see this one bead that you're
looking at you should see two lines that looks like it's coming out of each eye
forming a perfect crystal clear x on that bead that you're looking at that
first bead and then you should see those lines continuing off into the distance
in a straight line okay but that's out of focus so you should see an X
converging on the bead you're focusing on now once you do that the next thing
you want to do is just practice I start just sliding it it's easier for me to
keep this attached to something and just like move closer rather than keep moving
the the bead itself but either way what you want to do is just practice that if
you put it in a spot and you're just not getting it move it back and forth until
you find a spot where you do see that X from there look away just bring your
head up and then look back and practice bringing that into focus bringing that
into focus okay and when you do that when you can focus on that pretty easily
then you've got the other beads here just kind of spread out evenly now I'm
going to focus on the first bead and practice shifting my focus to the second
bead and that's it so I'm looking at one I shift my focus to the next one and
then I shift it back to the first one so now that's something that I can practice
doing obviously since we're talking about front sight post we want to really
make sure we're working at that distance arm length distance so figure out the
distance to your front sight post and make sure that you have a bead like my
black bead here is about you know that distance so that would be the one that I
want to really make sure I work my way up to and I say work my way up meaning
don't try to start there okay start here work on shifting your focus all the way
out there and then you can go further still okay because that's all going to
help it's all going to benefit from you now a few tips if you're having a hard
time focusing on a bead and it's just not working and sometimes your eyes are
going to be tired think about crawling it's going to sound silly think about
crawling your eyes up over the top of the bead okay or maybe crawling them
down crawl crawl crawl crawl crawl there's going to be these little shifts
in your focus that are going to make huge differences
I literally have hundreds of people telling me about using this and I
remember when I first did it I was I was like there's my eyes don't work that way
you know they my eyes don't focus but they do it's just that you need help
just like I needed help too so pick one of these up get it try it out it's a
great tool and it's super important it's really going to help your eyes out so
make sure you're doing now alright so this is something that I want you to
keep in mind too if you do this and I really hope you do and you find it's
hard like I did in the beginning well that just tells you that you really
need to do this work and it's going to drastically improve your shooting so
make sure you work on it the number one thing that I see people do wrong is just
not starting I don't want that to happen to you I want you to take action so do
something if this sounds like good information to you and it kind of makes
sense like hey if I can teach my eyes to focus better and I can see my front
sight better then I'll be able to shoot better if those things work out in your
head that's great but take action like right now if you have strings and beads
in your house go make one and practice if you don't go to my website and order
one right now do something take action because they've done thousands and
thousands of studies that if you take action on a goal the sooner you take
action the more likely you are to reach that goal and I want you to reach the
goal of being a better shooter alright so that's it
if you have questions again leave them below the video and until next time keep
paving your path to perfection