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Para,
I agree with you. I like to do the research and see what "reality" says, then develop training theories and methodologies around it. The fact is that, like many situations, the situation is so dynamic and the variables are so many that you really can't do a truly scientific experiment that covers all the bases. The best you can do is isolate areas and test them (the Tueller Drill is a perfect example of isolating one thing (...maybe two..depending on how you look at it), the problem is that people get ahold of that one piece of data and try to paint with a really broad brush about a lot of related topics. I try to avoid that.
We have a lot of dash camera and other empirical data that says two things:
1. People will move in real situations.
2. People have low hit rates in real situations.
What we are generally trying to do (as explained in the podcast) is channel that initial human survival behavior that is eons old into "lateral movement" and train the process of stopping to shoot. The exception is based on proximity and speed of the attackers movement towards you (again, check out the podcast if you haven't already). S&P are prime motivators of the startle response in the first place, so the S.i.M. Drill assumes the natural overriding drive to move away from danger regardless of training one way or the other. The standard lateral movement (when shooting at beyond 2 arms reach) takes both #1 and #2 into account... directing/accepting #1 and trying to improve #2.
On a related note, the guys at the Salk Institute are doing cutting edge work on how the human eye/brain track moving objects. Their studies support the idea that a rapid lateral shift about a body width or two than planting and shooting is likely to cause more disruption over the course of 2-3 seconds than simply moving off in one direction (including a predictable arc). We've always said that the lateral shift before stopping to shoot was causing two interruptions for the bad guys OODA Loop, but the science is now backing that up with good clinical studies.
-RJP
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