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Why movement matters

I think tactical/defensive training is so important because it opens you to a whole different world of gun management. I regularly attend a gun fighting course and two things that always impress themselves on me is how people will run a drill “linearly” with no adaptation or improvisation to respond to a given situation. A gunfight is a fluid situation and getting from point A to point B is not necessarily a straight line. The other thing is how when a situation requiring a reload arises people will either stop moving or only move in a straight line. This is why training is so important, in order to allow yourself to learn from your mistakes in a controlled environment rather than under fire.
 
I don't know if this could help anyone, but here is a really simple way to build what I call sleds, which can be used to hold targets and can be used to simulate cover for drills. Get some pallets and some banding slats. The slats are the same length as the pallet. If you can't find banding slats you can use 2x2s. Stand the pallet up to where the 3/4" slats of the pallet are running horizontally. Take 2x2s and cut them to the same length ( this will be the same as the total height of the pallet when standing on it's edge) as the 2x material that makes up the outer supports of the pallet. Then use one screw to attach a 2x2 or banding slat to the outside 2x material of the pallet. Do this on each side. Now you have 2 legs that fold in flush with the pallet so the pallet can be laid flat or stacked for storage. The pallet slats that run horizontally can be used to screw plywood targets or simply thumbtack paper targets to it. They also can be used to simulate cover. I have a bunch of them. I'll take a picture tomorrow if anyone is interested. I blew one to hell Sunday morning taking my TS12 on it's maiden flight. :)
 
I use polypropylene pipe and fittings to build barrier frames & attach cheap Wally world tarps to them to blank them off.
 
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