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- On day one we went back
over the fundamentals

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of stance, grip and
presentation from the holster,

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or the draw strew.

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Stance, grip and
presentation from the holster

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are the most important
fundamentals and the

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aspects of employing the
pistol that we focus on.

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That's the baseline for everything,

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it's brilliance in the basics

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every time that we come out to the range

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we, focus on that to start out with

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and that sets the stage
for the rest of the,

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the training.

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So that's the building block
for shooting the pistol.

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If you're trying to
build a solid foundation

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and the stance and how to
hold the pistol correctly

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to mitigate the recoil and
keep the weapon on target

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and then how to present the
weapon from the holster.

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There is a very specific process.

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Many times when marines
want to shoot the pistol,

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they simply pull the pistol out

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and get rounds on target

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without consciously focusing on the

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proper process for employing the pistol.

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Our goal is to,

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hammer the actual process
consciously focusing

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on each aspect, until
it becomes second nature

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and is built into the subconscious
mind and muscle memory.

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That way if the pistol
needs to be employed,

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it just naturally happens

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without the marines having to think about

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the entire process of
stance, grip draw strew.

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- The purpose of training today is to

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expound upon our skills

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and I'm able to then take
what I've learned here

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and deliver that to students

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in a very formal and
comfortable range setting,

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and develop them as well
in a week time course.

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Shooting techniques that we
utilize the most during this,

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is really building a
student from the ground up.

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So we go from stance, to the actual grip,

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and to holding the M9

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lining your sights to trigger pull.

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- One of the most of the
most difficult aspects

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of being an instructor

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is conveying knowledge to

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a wide variety of students
who learn in different ways.

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Some people are visual learners,
some people are auditory,

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some people are kinesthetic,
some people are a mix of both.

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And everybody has
different life experiences

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that they can relate to.

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So you have to find a way,

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as an instructor, to
relay that information

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in a way that the student
will understand it

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and then be able to translate
that into performance.

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