NURO Video with Defenders and Disciples

“I learned a ton…that will make me a better instructor.”

-SGM (Ret.) Kyle E. Lamb, Author of Green Eyes & Black Rifles

Defenders and Disciples Podcast

Thank you again to Taylor from Defenders and Disciples and to The Outpost Armory for hosting this video shoot. 

This is the first full-length training video we’ve done with NURO. People have been asking for one, and we’re glad to finally have gotten one put together.

There is a lot of good stuff in here caught on camera that really highlights many of the traditional traps that our legacy range management and training processes build in our skillsets.

The main culprit here is the almost exclusive use of pre-defined skill sequencing for range control and drill design. This leads to people who stop seeing and stop thinking as soon as they start shooting–because they rarely (if ever) need to do much of either.

Watch for him dropping to shooting an El Pres drill, firing two rounds, reloading for no explainable reason while transitioning, then sending a round into a no shoot before catching himself.  

Ooops. 

Thank you Taylor for including that run in the video edit!

Taylor is an experienced and skilled shooter who practices frequently and trains specifically to continue to see what’s in front of him when he shoots. 

He even built a training course specifically about target-focused aimed fire (which incidentally is the best program I have ever seen on that subject).

Yet, even with his skill level, passion for the subject, and focus on visual awareness skills in his own training, he still dropped into pretty long period of “autopilot” – even without any real-world stress. The end result was putting a round into a non-shootable target.

As we train with NURO, we all experience events like this and we see these things frequently with students of all skill levels when we’re out on the range in classes. 

The bad news is that we ALL are susceptible to doing stuff like this today – largely because of how we were trained. The good news is that now we have a way to start fixing these issues, and it doesn’t need to be this way for the next generation.

Do you think when you shoot?  Can you afford not to?

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