Falling into the rabbit hole of Matt's instagram live stuff has motivated me to get back into competition and practical shooting. Gold nuggets are tucked away in almost everything he says.
Pranka is totally honest. He really does answer question that are personally asked. It’s needs to be appreciated….it definitely is by me. Thank Matt. 👍
Sofit, we absolutely love you, bro. You're helping get rid of impractical tactical bullshit that endangers us all. And actually spreading the information that the 2A community needs. Which is hard skills before anything else. Thank you on behalf of all of us.
1st introduced to Matt Pranka on his Focus Tripp......appearance. Thought he was a real dickbag. I have since watched everything I can find from/with him, and he is BY FAR, my favorite firearms related person on social media.
Good for training content, but useless for gear content. Despite what he thinks about how much gear matters, as civilian you dont want to buy shit and waste money.
Matt and Ben have been the biggest influences on my training and shooting by far. I was new to guns like 5 years ago no experience no knowledge where to start so I went to UA-cam. I thought guys like GBRS and modern samurai and the king of training Ronin tactics. I was focused on getting as much cool guy gear I could get my hands on. Rarely did anything other than go to range shoot 200 rounds at 15 yards and called it a day. Then I found these two and sold most of my gear got a lot of ammo for my rifle and pistol and read Ben’s book started really training and this spring will be my first competitive shooting event. My shooting is astronomically better than before. Moral of the story the gear doesn’t matter if the hard skills are not there. Got a lot of buddies with the knights 11.5 with the gbrs lerna mount that’s like 2 inches above the bore line. None of them can move and shoot very well and majority of them shoot their rifles at max 30 yards for training. I show them Matt’s stuff and everyone says that boring how will I get better spending time pretending to shoot lol. The only thing you should be worried about when training is shooting as fast and accurate as possible.
It's so important. I'm coming from a perspective where I tried this and that according to the instructions of the internet. For several years (6 to be exact). All of the progress that I made during that time was my own doing. I never had anyone tell me anything worthwhile until I stumbled on Ben during C.
Knowledge bombs all around. All 3 of you were saying and giving valid points and information. Thank you to all 3 of you. Scott H your becoming a ear + voice by pulling these people in the trade craft industry of all in and your letting us listen in..Thank you.
I spent a lot of time shooting a comp'd gun and decided to start shooting carry optics so got the same gun with no comp and no magwell. Today shooting was just not doing amazing.... put some tape on my dot, occluding it, and wow... immediately figured it out, was watching the dot... immediately starting shooting almost all A zones where as I was maybe 5050 A/C before with weird stuff either dropping shots or low left high right stuff. Love you guys content, has helped me be a better shooter and diagnostician.
I doubt you will ever read this… but thank you to Pranka and Pannone …. You guys and the practical shooting training group have been a light in the fog …. More than anything, showing me HOW to train
These guys are so on point about people talking about things when they don't know what they don't know and are validated by an audience. Its been mind numbing to see happen and I'm glad real dudes are calling it out
All three of you are spot on. I’ve always lived by the mindset Matt was referring to… I’m not super glued or absolute in anything. If I see something that is different than what I’ve been doing, and objectively it makes more sense that what I’ve been doing, and it works? I’m willing, or even eager to change. Great conversation.
There needs to be a paradigm shift from "I am an instructor of this specific thing" to "I am a learning/training professional training in this topic." Those that have made that shift are the ones doing what Matt mentioned - they are willing to adapt their training in the face of new information. Until more instructors become learning professionals, we will always have people selling egos instead of developing skills and knowledge. We need great instructors, not dogma.
Asus far as the footwork thing goes, I'm not sure about the video, but is simply learning about the basics of it that big of a deal? If we're being technical, where you place your feet has to somewhat matter, and wouldn't you rather rep correctly to have it done to a point where you're subconsciously doing it correct? I don't think looking into minute details is a bad thing, as long as your training doesn't revolve around it solely
It’s an issue of over thinking. Or prioritizing space for something that doesn’t need to be thought about. You’d probably be better served by incorporating ladder drills into your cardio than spending time analyzing how to go through a door. You walk through it. You need to be fast and aggressive? You walk through it faster and more aggressively.
Matt's friend isn't quite accurate in his assessment of gear reviewers. Not all of them run around in their backyard in their armor for 2hrs. Their are gear reviewers that actually do training exercises that last for multiple days. They'll go out solo or with small groups of friends on 2,3,4 day ruck/camping/shooting/practice ops/etc., while wearing and/or using the gear. They'll do this multiple times with same gear, as well as "2hrs shooting in their backyard," in between their multi-day excursions. It's not a warzone, but it's harder on gear, and more comparable to conditions during warfare than 99% of anything a police department would put on their gear in the same amount of time.
Not a cop, know plenty of them.... today was at the range... I shoot every Saturday.... a 30 year veteran officer who trains other officers.... was struggling with his carry piece to print a group inside an IPSC target C zone at 20 yards. I was baffled. This was slow deliberate fire...man... the phrase if you can't do, teach never resounded more. He had all the gear but obviously does not train properly.
LE and Mil guys are the same. They all carry guns but the vast majority can barely pass a simple qualification. I’ve been a big city cop for nearly 30 years and I constantly train and try to improve. It’s a mindset of trying to push shooting skills, fitness, MMA, etc… Some dudes are chasing goals and most are just happy where they are at and over confident.
Happy to be above that one half of one percent, but Pranka is exactly correct. People really don't know how bad LE standards are....and it's not just shooting either.
You suck! Over 2 hours and I can’t stop listening. Guess I’ll finish the other work I had scheduled and that book I was reading later 😅 Seriously, great stuff!
Going to use Matt’s advice and use my critical thinking. When he says we’re a computer with 8 gigs of ram and we can’t use it more to get 12 gigs. We actually do though right we’re a computer that constantly learns new programs not a pre programmed system right? Maybe I misunderstood the analogy of what he’s trying to say.
I think you misunderstood it. At any given time you have a set amount of RAM available to you. Maybe today is 8Gb, maybe in a year is 12Gb, but this doesn't matter right now, what matters is: at the time you have to use your gun to shoot someone or something, if you have it (the shooting part) running in the background, making more RAM available to do other tasks, the better. You achieve this by over developing the fundamentals.
Someone tell Matt to use a different analogy than the CPU/RAM one. That's not how hardware works and it hurts his point for people that do know. The root point he's making is correct, but that analogy will fuck up anyone with a CS background.
What do you mean? You have the one cpu and ram as human and cant upgrade the hardware. Also what he says about opening too many programs slowing down your computer is correct. The analogy checks out to me.
@@emp6325 Well, my current desktop has had 3 different CPUs all upgrades from the previous, 2 different motherboards, and 6 different sets of RAM. On top of that, you can absolutely speed up a CPU with some basic ass overclocking. He's also switching the terms CPU and RAM intermittently as his analogy goes on. Half of what he's talking about is more representative of the L3 cache than RAM.
@@fast.splits.dismiss.hits. I think you mistook what Matt is trying to say, he is talking about humans as computer. You cant really upgrade your biological cpu and ram like you can in a PC. He didnt say you cant upgrade a real PC.
@@emp6325 I shoot around his level and I have a masters in CS. I know exactly what he's trying to say, what he's actually saying, and why it's not a good analogy.
Some of the things these guys say give “if you didn’t serve, you don’t know” energy. I know plenty of folks who didn’t serve know way more than those who did. That’s especially true in weapons handling, shooting, and competitive shooting.
If you have a pedigree, your skills are rusty, and/or your relevant knowledge is stale....no, it doesn't. Having a pedigree and focusing on gunfotainment also doesn't matter. Having a pedigree where you sucked inside your pedigree, no it doesn't matter. Just like having no pedigree, and no other offset relevant experience doesn't matter either.
A lot of this just sounds like guys trying to gatekeep training… yet they weren’t relevant in any shooting sport until years of training after their retirements. Funny he brings up Craig Douglass, shivworks, amtac knives, sayoc…which are all “knife” fighting based off of only theory. So they’ll support knife training based off of theory, not actual experience, and its ok but when it comes to weapons training its should primarily be only these two because they have experience. GBRS has a bunch of experience but then they’ll nitpick their experiences lol the dichotomy & hypocrisy is blinding
Dude, at least noone is talking about footwork through the door on your way to a knife fight in the room.....it's not about gatekeeping. It's about calling out bs. If you think that is gatekeeping....well, you do you.
Craig Douglas and his assistant(forget his name) have used a knife with humans and disarmed. Have you ever talked with Bill R.? Asked him any questions. Sayok is lots of people. So of course anything like that is a mixed bag. There is no gatekeeping in this interview. They shared more relevant and usable ideas and material here than some do in a class.
You aren't listening then. Stop bringing up "gatekeeping" when they can back up their claims. They're giving you free information. Everyone is all talk until it's time to perform.
Falling into the rabbit hole of Matt's instagram live stuff has motivated me to get back into competition and practical shooting. Gold nuggets are tucked away in almost everything he says.
His rumble channel is to be seen.
Pranka is totally honest. He really does answer question that are personally asked. It’s needs to be appreciated….it definitely is by me.
Thank Matt. 👍
hi man, maybe can i cut some clips from your podcast to upload to my channel?
The hero we need.
this dude does good work, i endorse him spreading this content
Love you
Sofit is the absolute man. Solid work, very respectful.
+1
Sofit, we absolutely love you, bro. You're helping get rid of impractical tactical bullshit that endangers us all. And actually spreading the information that the 2A community needs. Which is hard skills before anything else. Thank you on behalf of all of us.
Barn burner. These 2 men are the truth. Thanks for having them on!
1st introduced to Matt Pranka on his Focus Tripp......appearance. Thought he was a real dickbag. I have since watched everything I can find from/with him, and he is BY FAR, my favorite firearms related person on social media.
Same
That's great man. These guys know what they're talking about. True professionals.
Good for training content, but useless for gear content. Despite what he thinks about how much gear matters, as civilian you dont want to buy shit and waste money.
Matt and Ben have been the biggest influences on my training and shooting by far. I was new to guns like 5 years ago no experience no knowledge where to start so I went to UA-cam. I thought guys like GBRS and modern samurai and the king of training Ronin tactics. I was focused on getting as much cool guy gear I could get my hands on. Rarely did anything other than go to range shoot 200 rounds at 15 yards and called it a day. Then I found these two and sold most of my gear got a lot of ammo for my rifle and pistol and read Ben’s book started really training and this spring will be my first competitive shooting event. My shooting is astronomically better than before. Moral of the story the gear doesn’t matter if the hard skills are not there. Got a lot of buddies with the knights 11.5 with the gbrs lerna mount that’s like 2 inches above the bore line. None of them can move and shoot very well and majority of them shoot their rifles at max 30 yards for training. I show them Matt’s stuff and everyone says that boring how will I get better spending time pretending to shoot lol. The only thing you should be worried about when training is shooting as fast and accurate as possible.
What a fantastic and productive conversation. Awesome stuff
Bro, you nailed this one!! I got so many gems from this to take back to my department 👊🏻
These 2 guys are great, love what they do and how they are trying to make training evolve and help people to not waste their money on fake stuff.
It's so important. I'm coming from a perspective where I tried this and that according to the instructions of the internet. For several years (6 to be exact).
All of the progress that I made during that time was my own doing. I never had anyone tell me anything worthwhile until I stumbled on Ben during C.
Knowledge bombs all around. All 3 of you were saying and giving valid points and information. Thank you to all 3 of you. Scott H your becoming a ear + voice by pulling these people in the trade craft industry of all in and your letting us listen in..Thank you.
This was a great conversation!
Pranka is the man!!!
I spent a lot of time shooting a comp'd gun and decided to start shooting carry optics so got the same gun with no comp and no magwell. Today shooting was just not doing amazing.... put some tape on my dot, occluding it, and wow... immediately figured it out, was watching the dot... immediately starting shooting almost all A zones where as I was maybe 5050 A/C before with weird stuff either dropping shots or low left high right stuff. Love you guys content, has helped me be a better shooter and diagnostician.
Awesome talk! Thanks for doing it!
good interview. i try to never miss what matt or mike have to say. i want to somehow get in person training from xray alpha for deeper learning
2 super solid dudes you had on...really enjoyed it
I doubt you will ever read this… but thank you to Pranka and Pannone …. You guys and the practical shooting training group have been a light in the fog …. More than anything, showing me HOW to train
These guys are so on point about people talking about things when they don't know what they don't know and are validated by an audience. Its been mind numbing to see happen and I'm glad real dudes are calling it out
There were several eye openers in this for me
All three of you are spot on. I’ve always lived by the mindset Matt was referring to… I’m not super glued or absolute in anything. If I see something that is different than what I’ve been doing, and objectively it makes more sense that what I’ve been doing, and it works? I’m willing, or even eager to change. Great conversation.
There needs to be a paradigm shift from "I am an instructor of this specific thing" to "I am a learning/training professional training in this topic." Those that have made that shift are the ones doing what Matt mentioned - they are willing to adapt their training in the face of new information. Until more instructors become learning professionals, we will always have people selling egos instead of developing skills and knowledge. We need great instructors, not dogma.
35:17 I love when people bring up Dave Grossmans On Killing and just laugh.
Savage Truth!! Love it
Great episode gents
"me, my phone and some bad words"= Peak content
Need to Dry Fire? Gun up, grab shot timer, turn on this podcast and get to work!
Awesome! 😎🇺🇸
Asus far as the footwork thing goes, I'm not sure about the video, but is simply learning about the basics of it that big of a deal? If we're being technical, where you place your feet has to somewhat matter, and wouldn't you rather rep correctly to have it done to a point where you're subconsciously doing it correct? I don't think looking into minute details is a bad thing, as long as your training doesn't revolve around it solely
It’s an issue of over thinking. Or prioritizing space for something that doesn’t need to be thought about.
You’d probably be better served by incorporating ladder drills into your cardio than spending time analyzing how to go through a door. You walk through it. You need to be fast and aggressive? You walk through it faster and more aggressively.
Matt's friend isn't quite accurate in his assessment of gear reviewers. Not all of them run around in their backyard in their armor for 2hrs. Their are gear reviewers that actually do training exercises that last for multiple days. They'll go out solo or with small groups of friends on 2,3,4 day ruck/camping/shooting/practice ops/etc., while wearing and/or using the gear. They'll do this multiple times with same gear, as well as "2hrs shooting in their backyard," in between their multi-day excursions. It's not a warzone, but it's harder on gear, and more comparable to conditions during warfare than 99% of anything a police department would put on their gear in the same amount of time.
These guys are like a life line amid all the BS out there.
Not a cop, know plenty of them.... today was at the range... I shoot every Saturday.... a 30 year veteran officer who trains other officers.... was struggling with his carry piece to print a group inside an IPSC target C zone at 20 yards. I was baffled. This was slow deliberate fire...man... the phrase if you can't do, teach never resounded more. He had all the gear but obviously does not train properly.
LE and Mil guys are the same. They all carry guns but the vast majority can barely pass a simple qualification. I’ve been a big city cop for nearly 30 years and I constantly train and try to improve. It’s a mindset of trying to push shooting skills, fitness, MMA, etc… Some dudes are chasing goals and most are just happy where they are at and over confident.
That's the majority of cops.
Happy to be above that one half of one percent, but Pranka is exactly correct. People really don't know how bad LE standards are....and it's not just shooting either.
You suck! Over 2 hours and I can’t stop listening. Guess I’ll finish the other work I had scheduled and that book I was reading later 😅
Seriously, great stuff!
Going to use Matt’s advice and use my critical thinking. When he says we’re a computer with 8 gigs of ram and we can’t use it more to get 12 gigs. We actually do though right we’re a computer that constantly learns new programs not a pre programmed system right? Maybe I misunderstood the analogy of what he’s trying to say.
I think you misunderstood it. At any given time you have a set amount of RAM available to you. Maybe today is 8Gb, maybe in a year is 12Gb, but this doesn't matter right now, what matters is: at the time you have to use your gun to shoot someone or something, if you have it (the shooting part) running in the background, making more RAM available to do other tasks, the better. You achieve this by over developing the fundamentals.
@@LucasFerreira-qx6krgot it
It's not that deep
@ is type it all back again to me in English brother lol
@@1alphamike that’s what she said
The rifle kinda looks like a Temu Halo rifle.
😂 anyone else start dry firing mid interview?
Hard skills. Process based and not outcome based.
👍👍👍
Someone tell Matt to use a different analogy than the CPU/RAM one. That's not how hardware works and it hurts his point for people that do know. The root point he's making is correct, but that analogy will fuck up anyone with a CS background.
What do you mean? You have the one cpu and ram as human and cant upgrade the hardware. Also what he says about opening too many programs slowing down your computer is correct. The analogy checks out to me.
@@emp6325 Well, my current desktop has had 3 different CPUs all upgrades from the previous, 2 different motherboards, and 6 different sets of RAM. On top of that, you can absolutely speed up a CPU with some basic ass overclocking. He's also switching the terms CPU and RAM intermittently as his analogy goes on. Half of what he's talking about is more representative of the L3 cache than RAM.
@@fast.splits.dismiss.hits. I think you mistook what Matt is trying to say, he is talking about humans as computer. You cant really upgrade your biological cpu and ram like you can in a PC. He didnt say you cant upgrade a real PC.
@@emp6325 I shoot around his level and I have a masters in CS. I know exactly what he's trying to say, what he's actually saying, and why it's not a good analogy.
Some of the things these guys say give “if you didn’t serve, you don’t know” energy. I know plenty of folks who didn’t serve know way more than those who did. That’s especially true in weapons handling, shooting, and competitive shooting.
These two are quite experienced and knowledgeable. Just because you’ve known some turds doesn’t change that
Moral of the story?
There are always some dogs that don’t belong there in the first place.
Pranka and Pannone speaking truth sure causes a lot of butthurt
13:45 So pedigree DOES matter? lol
If you have a pedigree, your skills are rusty, and/or your relevant knowledge is stale....no, it doesn't. Having a pedigree and focusing on gunfotainment also doesn't matter. Having a pedigree where you sucked inside your pedigree, no it doesn't matter. Just like having no pedigree, and no other offset relevant experience doesn't matter either.
A lot of this just sounds like guys trying to gatekeep training… yet they weren’t relevant in any shooting sport until years of training after their retirements. Funny he brings up Craig Douglass, shivworks, amtac knives, sayoc…which are all “knife” fighting based off of only theory. So they’ll support knife training based off of theory, not actual experience, and its ok but when it comes to weapons training its should primarily be only these two because they have experience. GBRS has a bunch of experience but then they’ll nitpick their experiences lol the dichotomy & hypocrisy is blinding
How specifically have they “trying to gatekeep training”? They put out tons of free information
Dude, at least noone is talking about footwork through the door on your way to a knife fight in the room.....it's not about gatekeeping. It's about calling out bs. If you think that is gatekeeping....well, you do you.
Craig Douglas and his assistant(forget his name) have used a knife with humans and disarmed. Have you ever talked with Bill R.? Asked him any questions. Sayok is lots of people. So of course anything like that is a mixed bag.
There is no gatekeeping in this interview.
They shared more relevant and usable ideas and material here than some do in a class.
Not too late to delete this chief
You aren't listening then. Stop bringing up "gatekeeping" when they can back up their claims. They're giving you free information. Everyone is all talk until it's time to perform.
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