Point Shooting / Instinct Shooting

Since 09-24-06

Extracted from http://www.alliancemartialarts.com/pointshooting.htm

This will be a growing repository for links to Point Shooting and Instinct Shooting articles on the web. As long as I have been shooting, I have used this method. Not because I was trained in it at first, but simply because it worked! As kids we used to shoot BB guns all the time, and I learned that after a while the sights were secondary for me. I was able to hit whatever the target was without taking the time to aim. Later, as a teen, I would spend many hours with my dad doing trap shooting, which again is an unsighted method against a fast moving target fired in a random direction.

Today we actively train in this type of shooting with both handgun, rifle and shotgun. Outdoor practice is done with BB guns and then regular firearms. Indoor practice is done with Airsoft, as are others drills where the target is shooting back at us. Go here for more information on Tactical Training with Airsoft.

Alliance is not a shooting school by any means, we all just a school who all like to shoot. We all were brought up in that tradition. Lily's father worked for Ithaca Shotgun as a salesman to police departments after he retired from the force, passing some fine shooting skills on to her. Mike grew up in the same sort of country as I did and has shot all his life. To us, shooting is something normal and <gasp> even recreational! There is a lot of Zen in shooting in the sense of moving meditation, and heck, it's just a fun thing to do.

We pass on shooting skills in the curriculum as they relate to defense, in the same way that one has to learn to fight with a knife to defend against a knife. You have to know how to draw to see the ways to counter the draw, and know how to shoot so you can better avoid being shot. There is a lot more to the study of close range counter firearms work than just knowing a few Kuhroddy gun disarms. Especially for the martial arts teachers out there, we feel this is important. My friend told me about a seminar where the person teaching gun defenses later admitted they didn't even know how load or shoot a pistol! Didn't like guns...

Many people today have no training in firearm safety either. They should be taught this as a priority. Finger off the trigger, muzzle in a safe direction, just the most rudimentary things to folks who grew up around guns are news to a lot of folks today! Make sure you pass Safe Shooting skills on. The NRA has plenty of literature on this. If you haven't looked at their site in a while you should check them out again, your membership makes a difference!