The Goldilocks Principle
Plenty of instructors fall into the trap of pushing students too fast, switching to a new drill long before the student has mastered — or…
Category: Teaching
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Teaching in British Columbia, Canada
pistol-training.com is proud to announce that we will be holding an Aim Fast, Hit Fast class in Abbotsford, British Columbia on September 13 & 14.…
Do’s and Don’ts of the “Correction Target”
Targets like the one pictured to the left, taken years ago from the now-defunct sportshooter.com website, are very popular among shooters. A few years ago I…
Teaching in Pittsburgh
pistol-training.com will be holding its first open-to-the-public class in Pittsburgh, 9-10 August, called Aim Fast, Hit Fast. Click here for details on what will be taught,…
Come on, seriously?
We’ve all seen some wild stuff at the range. The photo, left, was taken in 2006 at Ken Hackathorn’s 60th Birthday “Party” match, of a…
New Contest: Design a Drill of the Week
As the number of subscribers and participants at pistol-training.com continues to grow, we realize there is a huge resource of ideas that goes untapped. In order…
Doh!
Day 2 at the Rogers Shooting School Intermediate/Advanced Pistol Class and we’re down to nine students. It seems that one gentleman, who’d traveled halfway down…
Pay Attention!
Sometimes, being at the range is really frustrating. Last night, I saw two different instructors teaching new shooters and both instructors were paying absolutely no…
New Article: Keep an Open Mind!
Contributor Rich Verdi has provided us with another excellent article, this one called Keep an Open Mind! Rich discusses a critically important lesson about the importance…
The Israeli Draw: A Timed Comparison
Although many people have heard of the Israeli method, there is little available information about how much time the extra step of racking the slide…