We then switched to shooting-on-the-move drills, leaving and entering box, left to right, and vice versa. "A B-Class shooter," he said, "is like a roller coaster - up and down." You could be the first on one stage, and then last on other stages.ġ,600 rounds later and a blister on my fingers, my Taran Tactical Innovation Glock 34 was still running flawlessly, looked as new and didn't fail me, not even once! I was finally able to shoot the plate rack with three clean runs at 25 yards under six seconds. And that's exactly what his goal was, to show me and teach me about consistency. The drill seemed straightforward, basic and simple, yet it was impossible to accomplish.
Every time I missed, we went back to a zero score. Once again, this seemed easy, until he asked me to do it four times, clean shots with no misses under six seconds. When I was able to somehow see my sight lift "up and down," prep the trigger and shoot while my sights were back on target, we transitioned to "left and right" by doing the same drill - 25 yards, six rounds in six seconds - on a plate rack.
This seemed easy so far, but the challenge quickly started when he added a pro timer to this drill: six rounds in six seconds while maintaining hits in the A zone. Miyagi from "Karate Kid" asking me to do "wax on, wax off." No joke.Īfter my arms got warmed up, we transitioned to live firing - 25 yards, slow fire, sets of six rounds to confirm zero. Even though I always dry fire at home, this felt different and weird. Though he knew that I'm a B class shooter and have been doing this for about four years now, the session started with him asking me to dry fire my draw for about 15 minutes nonstop. Then, he promptly started the training session - no time wasted and no side talk. Frank, and he asked me to load all my magazines. The arduous training has been a key reason the John Wick movies have stood out so clearly from the crowded action genre, and those movies themselves are heavily inspired by the set-pieces in the original Matrix movies.They call him "The Grand Master Whisperer." He's trained hundreds of people - from Special Forces to IPSC Champions - and the stories about his way of training are endless.īut never did I really envision going through 1,600 rounds of 9mm in about six hours, until I had the unique opportunity to train one-on-one with Frank Garcia at his facility, Universal Shooting Academy in Florida.
and Lionsgate aren't gonna' want to share-but it's still cool to see the actor taking the physicality so seriously. One of those movies is most likely going to shift its premiere date-Reeves is largely the selling point for both, and Warner Bros.
This is pretty par for the course for the extremely dedicated Reeves, but this time around he's simultaneously getting ready for The Matrix 4 and John Wick: Chapter 4, two action films that are set to debut, for now, on the same day: May 21st, 2021. Thanks for reading!Īh, actually, another interesting note: The reason Reeves has returned to Taran Tactical is that the actor is officially back on his gun-fu training regimen. A recent picture posted by Taran Tactical Innovations reveals that the beard is back, baby, and possibly better than ever. Exciting news today for anyone who peeped those Bill & Ted Face the Music images and gasped in abject horror at Keanu Reeves' un-bearded face.