TigerSwan CQB Warrior Building
This two-day tactical carbine course makes the unorthodox second nature!
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Enlarging Your Envelope
Following the basic drills, we then moved into dynamic CQB drills at the 10-yard line. These drills ranged from rhythm drills designed to get the student to make accurate follow-up shots while resetting the trigger during recoil and ensuring secondary and tertiary sight pictures are acquired, to fire-and-movement drills designed to incorporate a stable firing platform with proper target acquisition, while on the move.
On the final day of training, we were introduced to non-standard barricade positions. These positions afford the firer cover and concealment, while allowing for accurate shot placement with the rifle situated at unusual angles to the firer. Students were also required to fire their rifles from both shoulders, while ensuring minimal body exposure to the target.
The culmination of the course came with an “El Presidente” drill from the 80-yard line, requiring the firer to engage 20” x 40” steel plates with a compulsory reload in-between, and a shoot-on-the-move drill, which incorporated fire and movement techniques learned over the two days of the course. As a training note, TSI recommends that no such stress-fire drill be performed more than twice during one training period, or the training value of the event will be diminished. After several repetitions, students will try to “game” the scenario, and will feel less stressed, which will lead to unrealistic training outcomes.
Considerable emphasis was also placed upon non-standard firing positions, such as kneeling, barricade and seated. According to TSI, many urban engagements now occur well inside the 100m mark, and many shots are initially taken from the kneeling position.
Overall Impressions
The instructors were energetic, knowledgeable, tenacious, and yet very approachable. During training, almost nothing escaped their experienced eyes. They repeatedly corrected even minor errors in technique and stance, requiring the students to immediately repeat the drill in order to reinforce the correct technique before it became a bad habit. According to the instructors, the correct, exhaustive repetition of these shooting drills reinforces the correct neural pathway for a given movement, to the point that firing and movement become second nature. During the two-day course, students expended 1,000 rounds of rifle ammunition and about 40 rounds of pistol ammunition used during pistol transition drills. TSI continued their commitment to realistic training by providing each student with an emailed copy of the courses of fire, and these were delivered to each student almost immediately following the completion of the course. For more visit tigerswan.biz.
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