Archive for the ‘Teaching’ Category
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
... or anything else. Yes, thanks to the wonder that is YouTube, now we can watch people who have no idea what they're doing give us product reviews on handguns they don't know how to handle.
This tool (the guy, not the Walther) reviews three pistols by pointing them at himself, ...
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
At the range last night, an instructor giving a private lesson reminded me of a teaching truism: demonstrations can help you, and demonstrations can hurt you.
In this case, the instructor wanted to prove something to his student. He sent a 25yd bullseye target out to fifty yards and emptied a ...
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
We all understand that when you own something that's worth a lot of money, it's smart to invest in insurance. That's why I'm always surprised to hear how few instructors actually have their own liability insurance policies.
Of course, safety should always be the #1 priority during any firearms training. Nonetheless, ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
pistol-training.com is proud to announce that on 15-16 November, we will be teaching the Aim Fast, Hit Fast program at the Ben Avery Shooting Facility in Phoenix, Arizona. For more details, see the post in the classes section.
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
pistol-training.com held its first open enrollment class this weekend with the outstanding help of host Jay Cunningham and the great members of the Forest Grove Sportsmen's Association. You can read a review of the class at M4Carbine.net.
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Cross-dominance, sometimes called "cross-eye dominance," affects approximately 10% of shooters. It is fairly common among left-handed shooters (whose right eye is dominant) but it also occurs in a small percentage of right-handed shooters (whose left eye is dominant).
There are a number of different tests to determine eye dominance. The easiest is ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Plenty of instructors fall into the trap of pushing students too fast, switching to a new drill long before the student has mastered -- or even begun to grasp -- the purpose of the first one. All too often, this is borne out of sense that students want to do ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
pistol-training.com is proud to announce that we will be holding an Aim Fast, Hit Fast class in Abbotsford, British Columbia on September 13 & 14. Click here for more details.
Class size is strictly limited to sixteen students. We hope to see you there!
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Targets like the one pictured to the left, taken years ago from the now-defunct sportshooter.com website, are very popular among shooters. A few years ago I taught a class for a federal agency and they had a huge poster-size version up on the wall of their classroom. Supposedly, the target can diagnose ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
pistol-training.com will be holding its first open-to-the-public class in Pittsburgh, 9-10 August, called Aim Fast, Hit Fast. Click here for details on what will be taught, location, price, and contact information.
Class is strictly limited to sixteen students. We hope to see you there.
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
We've all seen some wild stuff at the range. The photo, left, was taken in 2006 at Ken Hackathorn's 60th Birthday "Party" match, of a local shooter who, yes, uses spent cartridge cases for hearing protection.
Tonight at the range, there were two incidents that are really just too crazy to ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
As the number of subscribers and participants at pistol-training.com continues to grow, we realize there is a huge resource of ideas that goes untapped. In order to keep the Drill of the Week fresh and interesting, we'd like to tap into your ideas for some great training drills. Therefore, we're asking ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Day 2 at the Rogers Shooting School Intermediate/Advanced Pistol Class and we're down to nine students. It seems that one gentleman, who'd traveled halfway down the East Coast to be here, was responsible for the unexpected loud noise in our hotel last night. Yup, he had an AD (accidental discharge). ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Sometimes, being at the range is really frustrating. Last night, I saw two different instructors teaching new shooters and both instructors were paying absolutely no attention to their students.
Dear Instructor #1: Your students shouldn't stand there talking to you while his SIG is loaded, cocked, and his finger is on ...
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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Contributor Rich Verdi has provided us with another excellent article, this one called Keep an Open Mind! Rich discusses a critically important lesson about the importance of teaching students without being tied down to personal preferences about your gear. All too often, instructors like to wax philosophically about their personal likes ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Although many people have heard of the Israeli method, there is little available information about how much time the extra step of racking the slide requires. When they guess, most people cite figures of a second or more. Some time ago I decided to answer the question for myself by ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
The so-called "Israeli" Draw is a technique advocated by some for presenting a pistol from the holster. The gun is carried with an loaded magazine but no round in the chamber. As the gun is drawn from the holster, the shooter racks the slide to load the gun.
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Last week, we began breaking the "two shots per target" habit with Rich Verdi's Non-Standard Response Drill. Now we'll expand on that concept to simulate a more realistic shooting situation.
First, let's remember why we were doing Verdi's Non-Standard Response Drill in the first place. There is ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Thanks to YouTube, here we see a fine example of what happens when someone who isn't qualified to teach hands a gun to someone who isn't qualified to shoot.
Of course, it's also a good example of why one should not handle a fully-automatic weapon without decent instruction ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
The X-Drill, a comprehensive multiple target drill, has been added to the Drills section.
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