How To Get New Recruits Motivated & Shooting Accurately “Instantly” Using The World’s Fastest Teaching Method (Part 1)
Discover the Newest Secrets of Firearms Training for Today’s Recruits!
Training your Recruits to Shoot with Absolute Precision Accuracy is Easy When you Understand How They Will Take in Information and Represent that Information in Terms of Their Behavior.
The instructional process for teaching someone to shoot can be broken down into two components, 1) the physical skills and 2) the mental skills. The physical skills make up 20% of the process and the mental skills make up 80% of the process. This article will assist you in understanding how your students’ minds work and give you better insight into reading your students. We will profile the different personality types and create several models that will assist you in accelerating your student’s learning process and improve your effectiveness as an instructor.
THE PROBLEM IS THE DIFFERENCE
The recruits of yesterday grew up hunting and fishing. In both activities their role was one of a predator. The recruits of today grew up playing video games. Even though they role play with a gun, it’s not the same as tracking, shooting a real gun, and gutting your kill. Many recruits entering an Academy today have never even shot a real gun. It is important to realize that the psychology behind the hiring process used by many police agencies appear to be more focused on hiring “Social Workers” not “Warriors”. The mind-set and motivation of today’s recruits are very different from years previous. The sophistication of the new recruits has changed. Most of the new recruits have been to college and their model of learning is incongruent with the paramilitary model. Using the “Drill Sergeant” approach and inducing stress during the initial phases of learning actually inhibits the learning process, retards retention of the material presented, demeans the student and reduces their motivation to excel or even want to shoot. In order to meet the needs of this new breed of officers, our teaching methodology must also become more sophisticated.
Your students don’t see the world as it is, or in the way you saw it when you entered the academy. They see the world as they are, based on how they process information and their own personal experiences.
Example: Three people witness an accident. All three will experience a different reality and respond to it differently. One person may be shocked by what they saw. Another may feel pity and be sympathetic to the victims. Another may feel angry that people aren’t more careful. The same incident makes people feel and react in different ways. We will illustrate how the way a student feels during the learning experience; will determine what and how much they will learn. Read more
