Ankeny tossed out the "what the top pro's are teaching" reference and I countered with guys who are just as good but shoot using different technique.
The people you mentioned use precisely the techniques that are being discussed. You won't find a laser pointer in Sevigny's barrel, I guarantee it. Dryfire practice for Leatham isn't all about overcoming flinch and muscle memory. It's full-on training and practice, exercising damn near every single aspect of high-speed accurate pistol shooting. If you want to see what dryfire practice really can accomplish, you need look no further than Tatsuyo Sakai.
From reading this thread, it would seem to me that what we have here is a failure to communicate.
The point is that if you want to get the most from your dryfire practice you need to ditch the laser. It's not an opinion, it's a fact. It doesn't "work for some people" it's keeping you from realizing the full potential of dryfire practice. Advocating a laser-pointer in the barrel seems to work for you because, per your own admission, your dryfire practice is very narrowly focused and in one aspect has produced zero results for you in 17 years of trying. Your technique is lacking, not your equipment.
Steve Anderson and Brian Enos have advanced the concept of dryfire into the stratosphere from where it was just a couple years ago. If you aren't well versed on the state-of-the-art in dryfire technique, what they are teaching and expanding on, you really don't understand what is going on. And from that, have no standing to comment on whether or not a laser-pointer is appropriate or not.
I'm not trying to be unnecessarily condescending, but you seem to be having no trouble dismissing the comments of people on here that are as plugged into what is humanly possible with a handgun as just about any you'll ever meet.
If you really want to explore what this laser-pointer can or cannot offer in terms of dryfire and its place in high-speed pistol shooting, you really, seriously, need to head over to the forums at brianenos.com and discuss it. You will not find a more serious collection of the fastest pistol shooters on earth anywhere else on the web.
And as far as the 'agree to disagree' truce, these threads are about more than just the people involved in the discussion, there are many many people that read these discussions, and we're really talking to them. It's obvious you think you've got this all covered, and that's fine. I just hope we can enourage anyone reading that is thinking about seriously working with dryfire to look critically on this laser nonsense and get educated on what is, really, the state-of-the-art in dryfire training doctrine.
andersonshooting.com is the place to start, and brianenos.com is the place to finish.
- Gabe