FOF: Pros and Cons, Part 1
Back in August 2012 I wrote an article called Competition: Pros and Cons. Today, it is followed up by a similar discussion about another oft-debated aspect…
Category: Teaching
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Prerequisites
A thread over at pistol-forum about class prerequisites has been bouncing around in my head for a while and I wanted to talk about it in…
Round Counts in Classes
Somehow, my name recently got dragged into some crazy online drama-controversy about a review of another instructor’s class. One of the many things that got…
F.A.S.T. Explained
There’s a discussion over at M4Carbine.net about the F.A.S.T. drill and it seemed like a good idea to address a few points. The first is…
New Drills Added
Recent additions to the Drills section include: 10-8 Pistol Test Frank Garcia’s Dot Drill the iHack Check them out and give them a try. Train…
Standards
Two unrelated discussions online recently caught my eye as they relate to the why of practice & training. One asked how much time do you spend…
Instructor Demonstrations
To demo or not to demo, that is the question: Whether ’tis Nobler for the class to suffer The Questions and Mistakes of outrageous Confusion,…
Further Interruption
Following up to last December’s announcement, pistol-training.com is suspending all classes until late July. While it may be possible to teach intermittently during the interim, it…
What Is a Gun?
Catching up on two months of blogs from around the net I came across an interesting post about safety. It opined that the Cardinal Rules…
Students Must Pay
… attention. It’s a pet peeve of mine when teaching: the student who doesn’t pay attention and constantly holds up the class needing special attention.…