McDaniel had intuited effective procedures for training the subconscious mind to direct the body to perform manual tasks, in this case, shooting to hit certain types of targets, more rapidly and with greater precision than could be attained by the conscious mind. In the 1950s, however, kinesiology, specifically, proprioception and proprioceptive feedback, and cognitive ergonomics to speed the development of procedural memory were not well understood, and there were no obvious parallels within the American teaching profession by which to judge the significance and ramifications of McDaniel's approach. It went largely unremarked on outside of a small segment of the shooting community. McDaniel, however, routinely trained shooters to attain performance levels of such speed and precision, and within such a short time frame, that his training program remains unmatched today.