Should Training Be Legislated?
The topic of mandatory training for Concealed Carry licenses has popped up online quite a bit over the past two weeks. My home state of…
Category: Teaching
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Spreading Lies
An interesting conversation on pistol-forum.com over the past few days raised the specter of “too accurate” as it is being taught at some fairly high…
Great Minds…
Kathy “Cornered Cat” Jackson, Can I Teach That? at the Scratching Post MAC from the Military Arms Channel Blog The Bang Switch, The Fading 40 Caleb talks about How…
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…
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,…