Archive for the ‘Learning’ Category
Monday, September 19th, 2011
One of the most fascinating parts of the Porsche class last week was realizing the tremendous number of parallels between how they teach high performance driving and how good instructors teach high performance shooting. Every chance I got, I was grabbing an instructor offline and asking him questions about pedagogy.
In ...
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
Recently, a discussion came up on a forum I frequent related to a test Gila Hayes developed years ago. The test is intended to begin from a ready position and the question came up as to whether it was better to run it from a concealed holster.
The test is pretty ...
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
A few months ago, I quickly put together an example of a dry fire routine for a friend who just got a SIRT pistol and wanted to make good use of it. The approach involves having a month-long plan. Instead of doing the same thing every day for a month ...
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
Lately, I have been shooting less per session than normal (for me). Discussing this with a buddy, he repeated the often heard "truism" that you should never shoot more than 200-300 rounds per day while practicing.
That is, of course, stupid.
There is no set rule for how many rounds makes up ...
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
This past Saturday, six of us (all F.A.S.T. Wallers) did a little data gathering on the range. One of the interesting results came from measuring the difference between beginning with finger off the trigger versus finger on the trigger. Targets used were 40% IPSC steel targets (about 12" high by ...
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Recently seen on a forum: "I'm not going to worry about a few hundredths of a second with my splits."
What he really meant: "I don't know how to get faster and don't want to make the effort so I've decided it's not worth it."
While this particular comment was directed at ...
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Saturday, August 6th, 2011
In this week's Glock update, I mentioned that an accessory I added to the pistol -- a modified Grip Force Adapter -- did not feel as good as the bare Glock in my hands. Nonetheless, results on paper and on the shot timer don't lie and my performance is better with the ...
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Thursday, August 4th, 2011
I recently witnessed an unfortunate discussion an instructor was having with a student that reflects a common problem in the training community. The exchange went something like this:
Student: I'm thinking about taking a class from (another school).
Instructor: You don't want to waste your money on that. They focus on nothing ...
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
OK, I'm more than a day late on this ... three weeks late, actually. But today I finally got around to reading Ezell v. Chicago and in case there is anyone who hasn't heard of it yet, basically it says that pistol-training.com is a Constitutionally protected site.
Wait, no. It says ...
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Monday, July 25th, 2011
By now, we have all heard about the killing spree of madman Anders Behring Breivik last Friday. While media pundits will use this, vulture-like, to push forward anti-gun political agendas, pistol-training.com has never been about politics. Instead, I see this as a horrible example of why training matters.
I am not a police ...
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