Archive for the ‘Learning’ Category
Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
If you teach basic CCW, do you teach those first time students about sight alignment and trigger control and breathing and the other fundamentals of marksmanship?
If you answered yes, are you properly addressing your audience? Odds are, probably not.
This might come as a shock to anyone who's been reading this website for ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2014
I recently reposted these on my Facebook page. They're the five greatest influences on me as a shooter and instructor over the years:
Chuck Davis
Ken Hackathorn
Ernest Langdon
Rich Verdi
SLG
If you weren't reading pistol-training.com back in 2011, I hope you'll find them interesting. And if you've been with me since back then, perhaps reading these ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2014
What do you do when Bill Wilson tells you he's updated his legendary Bill Drill?
Tell everyone else, obviously: The Bill Drill 2.
(But Bill, it's 2014... you really should call it Bill Drill 2.0 8-) )
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
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Friday, March 7th, 2014
It's always interesting to see how people with different focuses and backgrounds look at things in similar fashion. Here's a recent Facebook post by USPSA Production Grandmaster Donovan Montross (reprinted here with permission) that sounds quite similar to the Fire for Effect PTC post a couple weeks back.
I do think that there ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2014
Some great articles from around the web, a.k.a. I'm too lazy to write anything myself...
Spot Shooting by Jerry Jones at Modern Service Weapons
Should Practice Be Perfect by Dave Spaulding at The Tactical Wire (great minds think alike edition)
Self-Protection/Self-Perfection by Paul Sharp at Sharp Defense
Train hard & stay safe! ToddG
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Monday, March 3rd, 2014
The mere title of this post makes me sad.
I have come to accept, begrudgingly, that we live in a world where the perception "one trigger pull is better than two" isn't likely to change any time soon. It's a perception that kept the 1911 dominant for decades among shooting cognoscenti. ...
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Thursday, February 27th, 2014
One of the first force-on-force (FOF) scenarios I ever went through as a student back in the mid-90's: I walk around a corner and se two guys, one in a camo jacket and one in a red jacket, basically slap fighting. The guy in the red jacket -- short, overweight -- draws ...
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Friday, February 21st, 2014
In the comments section of the recent "Lamentations and Hope" post, my friend nyeti said something that really resonated with me: Up until recently we were taking more classes than we taught, and still consider ourselves lifetime students, so we see both sides.
I'm always interested to see the difference between instructors who ...
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Wednesday, February 19th, 2014
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When you practice, how often are you assessing your performance?
Are you looking at the target at the end of the day and saying, yay, I hit it a lot! Or are you shooting one Bill Drill and stopping to write down your hits and splits, rinse, & repeat?
If you read ...
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Monday, February 17th, 2014
So as my days doing the “traveling instructor” thing appear to be coming to an end, I’ve been reflecting lately on the current state of the training community… and it’s made me a little sad. Then yesterday I met a young instructor from half way across the country and was ...
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