Videos tagged with Peripheral Vision

This video from Tenicor, featuring instructor Jeff Gonzales, explains practical techniques for avoiding ambushes. It debunks the 'check your six' advice, demonstrating how it creates vulnerability. Instead, it teaches the 'arc' movement for maintaining situational awareness and avoiding coordinated attacks like the 'pincher assault' by utilizing peripheral vision effectively.

This expert-level guide from GBRS Group, led by instructor Andrew, details advanced techniques for using barricades effectively. It emphasizes maintaining optimal distance, utilizing peripheral vision for threat detection, and dynamically moving around cover to maintain situational awareness and control all angles. The instruction highlights how stepping back from cover can improve safety and tactical options.

This video emphasizes the critical importance of shooting with both eyes open. Closing one eye significantly reduces peripheral vision, which is essential for situational awareness in real-life scenarios. Maintaining peripheral awareness allows a shooter to detect threats or changes in their environment that might otherwise be missed.

This video explains the advantages of shooting with two eyes open, emphasizing target focus and using sighting systems in peripheral vision. It contrasts this with the traditional one-eye-closed method for iron sights, suggesting a transition to two eyes once a proper sight picture is acquired. The instructor advocates for keeping the sighting system secondary to the target for better situational awareness.

This video from Geauga Firearms Academy demonstrates a technique for faster transitions to moving targets. The core principle is to avoid fixating on sights and instead use peripheral vision to scan the environment, identify targets, and then bring the firearm's sights to the target. This method is presented as crucial for real-world self-defense scenarios where environmental awareness is paramount.

This segment from Gun Talk Radio features Brian Balinski, 'Dr. Shotgun,' discussing common reasons for missing clay targets and emphasizing the critical importance of focusing 99% on the target. He explains that shotguns are pointed, not aimed, and that focusing on the barrel or bead hinders the shooting process. Balinski advocates for developing muscle memory through gun-down practice and enhancing the athleticism of the shooting motion. He also highlights the significance of proper gun fit and how it impacts technique.

This guide details a test to assess shooting accuracy while wearing a Mira Safety gas mask, as demonstrated by Civilian Tactical. It covers establishing a baseline, the process of shooting with the mask, and analyzing the results, which showed a significant decrease in accuracy due to peripheral vision loss and interference with proper firearm cheek weld. The expert reviewer highlights practical challenges faced when integrating tactical gear with firearm operation.

Casey Hilder of Fieldcraft Survival demonstrates the proper technique for moving while shooting, emphasizing a natural walking motion over the 'safety turtle' position. This method ensures continued situational awareness and effective tool operation. The instruction covers both forward and backward movement with live fire, highlighting the benefits of maintaining posture and processing information.

This video from Top Guns explains how to determine your dominant eye, a crucial step for effective shooting. Instructors Christy and Eric demonstrate a simple test using your thumb and a fixed point. They emphasize the importance of learning to shoot with both eyes open to maintain peripheral vision, even for cross-dominant individuals, and explain how to adjust firearm placement accordingly.

This video details the 'X-Box Drill,' a rifle training exercise developed by former Army Special Operations member Don Edwards. The drill emphasizes shooting on the move, lateral and diagonal movement, and utilizing peripheral vision. It requires 24 rounds and focuses on improving body positioning and target transitions under dynamic conditions. The drill's scoring incorporates time penalties for misses and zone hits.

This video from Instructor Mike critiques an off-duty officer's poor tactical choices while working a side job. Key takeaways include the dangers of wearing a hoodie that obstructs peripheral vision and the risks associated with using earbuds that diminish auditory awareness. Instructor Mike emphasizes the importance of maintaining situational awareness even when off-duty or in a secondary role.

This video provides a crucial technique for improving accuracy when shooting from unstable positions. The core advice is to focus on the intended point of impact rather than the rifle's reticle. By allowing peripheral vision to guide the shot and making predetermined decisions about the firing sequence, shooters can overcome instability and reduce misses, significantly improving their hit rate.