How do you split your training time?

Just wondering how people split up their training hours between:

1.Range
2.Dry Fire
3.Unarmed
4.Knife
5.'Blunt' instrument e.g. kopo stick
6.Mental aspects/Awareness training etc.
7.Whatever else

Phill - I confess to some degree of sloth - due to age!!

I no longer adopt any specific schedule - I do any aspect as and when I think of it or when convenient. Range time is when I can make it but dry fire is usually on a whim at some stage of day in the office. Knife too is similar - stand up - retrieve and deploy - can I still do it well enough?

I can no longer achieve what I could 20 and more years ago but - reckon to maintain best fluency I can. I notice muscle memory with gun in particular is rarely too degraded - it appears in hand as an extension and always feel natural - I am glad for all the shooting over my lifetime that helped build that.

I practice observational skills at all times all days - that is one thing I do not let slip.

I try to mix it up some. Mostly dry fire and soft air drill as I don't have to leave the house to practice.

I would say, in descending order of importance:

1). The gym
2). Rest (you make crappy decisions when you're tired)
3). Shooting
4). Reloading (that includes research and test fires)
5). Knife research
6). Knife sharpening for personal use

I read someplace where it took maybe 3 thousand iterations to implant muscle memory with say drawing your firearm. Dry fire seemed to help when I got stupid and pulled the trigger instead of squeeze, I just didn't do it enough but feel it was important. Thanks for the reminder, maybe I should get back to dry fire, it would help to strengthen my arms.

According to Kelly McCann in his Combat Shooting video series (by Paladin) 'muscle memory', which we might define as unconsious action, takes half a million reps or more. This would be something like an assembly worker type of thing. Five to ten thousand reps gets you to a 'familiarity' stage, where you are less likely to f-up, but the action still needs conscious direction.

Mental - daily.
PT - daily.
Dry fire - daily.
Empty hand - twice weekly or more (sparring less than monthly).
Range time - weekly or biweekly.
Bladed weapon drills - biweekly or less (sparring less than monthly).
Baton/yawara drills - monthly or less (sparring less than monthly).

Mental: most of the time

Empty-hand: 15-20 hours per week, this is also my PT (yeah, I know...I'm obsessed:biggrin:)

Knives and/or impact weapons (kubotan, koppo, travel-wrench, stinger): several times per week if not every day

Dry fire: almost every day

Range: not as often as I'd like...once every week or ten days if I'm lucky, once or twice a month otherwise. :frown:

Mentality-- everyday

Workout-- 3 to 4 times per week

Dryfire minium of 5 to max of 7 days per week

Range-- 1 x per week

Instruction/trainning-- 2 to 3 times per year

Knives--- i know very little on this subject but will in the future

empty hand-- no training other than what I've been thru in my life

Blunt object--- zero!