Vasux86 Wrote:LR- I'm not trying to be difficult, but I am trying to understand your position on this. You are saying that anyone would shoot a target blindfolded. However, you are also saying that the service-members you trained couldn't. I trust you can help me make sense of this...
V86:
No problem.
I am pretty positive that Miculek rehearsed what he did, either live a number of times or dry a number of times, maybe just visualized it, but he did rehearse it. And so he went ahead and did it when he believed with certainty that he could do it. This type of thing is his way of having fun and earning a living. Miculek is also probably the most talented and skilled speed shooter on earth.
GI's on the other hand don't get the time or resources to do such things and I am also pretty positive that blindfolding someone and letting them shoot on a military range would be frowned upon to say the least.
Anyone can do this task though. All they need is the belief they can, the motivation to continue to try until they do, and the resources for them to succeed. Miculek embodies the notion that confidence plus focused training will bring success.
Guys who wanted to try this, I let try. A bunch got into it because it was a challenge for them and they believed they would eventually succeed.
It wasn't something I let them do for a long time and wasn't a regular part of our training. It was a good way to show what needed training though, seeing and moving a finger.
LR55