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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

IIRC, Keanu did some extensive firearms training in connection with John Wick. I've seen some footage of him on a training set with mobile targets, and would estimate that he's better at handling a wide variety of firearms than a fair portion of military personnel are before the first time they see combat. This estimate is based on my own military training on similar courses.

I know the movies are choreographed, but I definitely wouldn't give someone without extensive training good odds against him, based on footage I've seen from his training.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    I've got nearly a decade of experience in competitive pistol and three-gun matches and I was never by any means competitive. The footage of what he accomplished in his training is impressive and requires a significant amount of practice and skill. Even if what I saw was only the best roll, it was no accident

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That doesn’t mean Keanu is good. Perhaps most soldiers are given just enough training to be convincing cannon fodder.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    It does mean he's far above the average person (which isn't saying much, the average person probably has less than an hour of firearms training, and maybe a few hours of martial arts training at most)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Define "good". I would say that any professional with dozens of hours of training, that could comfortably overcome any average person is "good". Those are the people I trained with, and my impression is that Keanu is better than most of them.

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