Archive for the ‘Learning’ Category
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
Posted in Learning, Tacticality | 2 Comments »
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. ...
Posted in Gear, Learning, Safety, Tacticality, Teaching | 49 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Learning, Safety, Tacticality | 23 Comments »
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 ...
Posted in Learning, Teaching | 8 Comments »
Wednesday, February 19th, 2014
[youtube]http://youtu.be/IswlC1-4lus[/youtube]
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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Saturday, February 15th, 2014
My friend Ethan Johns from SWAT Magazine has come up with a couple of interesting new shooting standards drills. One of them is the 10 Round Assault Course, shown here being shot by Ethan himself:[youtube]http://youtu.be/aIUNQBtAzVo[/youtube]
Target is a standard NRA B8 bullseye replacement center. Scoring is for actual points so a ...
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Tuesday, February 11th, 2014
A while back, Sean Leffler recommended this Traditional Double Action version of the classic Dot Torture drill and I put a target together but never posted it. Now that I'm getting back into TDA shooting, I thought perhaps it would be useful to others who are doing the same. With thanks ...
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