Good morning or afternoon or evening whenever you're watching this Brian Hill with a complete combatant. I get a question quite frequently, and I just answered an email about this, so I want to give you guys some help. And the help is this, I can't find the dot on the draw. It happens quite frequently. the.is a huge improvement in the ability to aim the firearm, to watch the target, but it requires some sacrifice, some compromise, and that will be technical skill. The days of old where you simply roughly guided a gun and then corrected it at the end doesn't work as well with a dot. So I've got a little drill for you guys to help you find the dot. We're going to be using the extended prep and press, which is the richest part of the draw. It is the final third of the draw. It's where the grip is developed, where we line up the sites with the target, we bring our finger to the trigger and begin to prep it.
And then when we see the dot where we want it to, we shoot. That's a lot of stuff. I'm not just clearing the cover garment, I'm not just bringing it up to the position. I'm doing almost all those actions and that's where the.is often lost. Now what'll happen is you'll practice the draw and the dot won't be there, so you'll move the gun around rapidly trying to find it, which robs you of the greatest advantage that you could have, which is correcting what's wrong because you just go looking for it because you feel like you didn't find it. What we need to do is stop at that point and then apply one fundamental and see if it fixes it. Is it pinky pressure? Is my grip strength even? Did I drop my head? Those things can all be eliminated in those moments where you can start correcting it.
So this is not a shooting drill, this is a dry practice drill and it can be a shooting drill. After you practice it for a while, what we're going to do is extended prep and press, so I'm reaving or rebuilding the grip in, as Scott Linsky says, and then my fingers coming the trigger, and I should see that dot come right in front of me. If it's missing, we know it's probably high. Very seldom is it low. So a bit of pressure in our support hand. Pinky should fix that. So lemme do it a couple of times so you guys can see it.
Gun's clear. We're all good. All right. I got a 15 foot berm in front of me, so I'll be practicing this way. So I want the gun up here where I can see it down here. Doesn't help me. So my hands would come together for a clap, would be the best place. So I've got a little visual guidance here, but as I'm gripping the gun, I'm going to drive the grips together. I'm going to rotate those cogs, and then I'm going to prep the trigger. And right there is where I saw the dot. All right, so practicing this part allows me to see the dot. The dot should fall in from the 12 o'clock position, so directly above you and straight down. It comes in from the right or left, means you're doing maybe too much or too little with a support hand, or your stance needs some adjustment, your posture needs some adjustment, your bind, so drop the.in and then see it.
Drop the.in and then see it. And all I'm doing is not pressing the trigger because I want to chain this to seeing, not to cadence. What happens is a lot of people get in the drill and they just do this every time. They push the gun out, they click the trigger and they're training themselves just to press the trigger. Even if they don't see anything. What we've got to do is find the dot, alright. Right now I don't have the dot, so I'm going to try one fundamental. I'm going to take my support hand, pinky, I'm going to squeeze and there's the dot. So now I know every time I do this, I need a little bit more pressure in my support hand with at least my pinky, my ring finger and my middle finger so that the dot drops right in. I've corrected a fundamental, it costs me nothing.
Now I'm in a corrective mode, and every time I do that, it's a simple correction for me. Now, what if it wasn't that? Maybe I dropped my head while I was doing extended prep and press, so my head's coming down and now I don't see the dot. Well, there's the dot. When I lift my head back up, so keep my head still and the dot shows up and the dot shows up. You will find that you can find the dot much more often and your draw will become much better. But also the decisional skills of pointing a gun when the finger comes to the trigger and when you're ready to shoot, is all chained to the visual mode of seeing the.movie. And then it's also chained to the mode of completing the task assigned by gripping, prepping the trigger and being ready to shoot. If something were to change, you simply stop the process, take your finger off the trigger, and quit pointing the gun at the target.
Simple drill, very deep, very rich. It requires a lot of practice. I think you'll see huge results out of it. If you'll just do this one thing for me, do that and I think you'll benefit immensely and quickly. Alright, I'm Brian Hill with a complete combatant. You can find us@thecompletecombatant.com. You can host me. We have a very low minimum of 10 host range. Free in that situation or range free is something we will work it out with you guys and I want to come and help you guys learn how to do these things and how to correct yourself so that you're not always relying on a third party to do it, because we're all coaches and our first client is ourselves. Alright, as always, guys, measure, refine, and perform. I'll see you next time. Thank you.
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