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Course Description:
The Gun Sparring™ Instructor Course is a highly realistic handgun training approach using Ecological Dynamics to create students who are best prepared for close-range firearm encounters. Instructor candidates will learn to develop realistic, isolated training scenarios (representative design) that allow for variability and student self-organization. The goal is to produce adaptable students who can rapidly find solutions to real-world firearm attacks regardless of how they unfold.
Learning the Language of Ecological Dynamics
One of the biggest hurdles to using an Ecological Dynamics approach in training is that the words used in this methodology are not intuitive. The Gunsparring Instructor Course introduces the core vocabulary needed to properly understand and apply this approach. Students will learn and become comfortable using terms such as metastability, affordances, action capacity, invariants, attractors, and more…
Utilizing a Constraints-Led Approach
Students will learn how to utilize a Constraints Led Approach to focus the student on finding movement solutions for related problems. Instructors will learn to manipulate tasks and environmental constraints to guide student performance. Instructors will also learn to identify Individual constraints and how they affect opportunities for action.
Application of Representative Design
Similar to reality-based training scenarios, representative design involves isolating a representation of a real world encounter with focus on providing realistic information and realistic responses from your students (action fidelity). By isolating the exercises to the point of requiring an action response, high repetition and variability can be achieved in a very short time. This creates an environment to develop students who are adaptable and capable of rapid problem-solving.
Developing Action-Capacity
Individual constraints can be improved on to create more options for problem-solving. The ability to control stress, stabilize and draw the weapon are just a few actions that can be enhanced by improving stress tolerance or developing greater related muscle strength. Various exercises to develop action capacities will be explored.
Optimizing Training with a New Coaching Paradigm
Using an Ecological Dynamics approach to training requires a paradigm shift in how we behave as coaches. Coaches using this approach no longer demonstrate and teach what they believe to be the perfect technique. Instead, the coach approaches training by designing practice regimes that drive the students to find movement solutions on their own. This allows students to work within their own constraints and use feedback to adapt their responses. Course candidates will be shown specific strategies to enhance this development.
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