This was the second of four courses I plan to take with Kelly McCann this year. Hopefully, our readers have by now read the review I wrote of the ASP/Stickfighting clinic, where I outlined my rationale for wanting to train with Kelly in these areas. The Defensive Knife clinic shared a lot of similarities with […]
In the 1984 feature film “The Karate Kid”, Daniel Larusso all but begs his mentor, Mr. Miyagi, to teach him how to punch. Again and again, Miyagi tells him, “FIRST LEARN BALANCE!” This came to mind when I spoke with one of my mentors a few months back, explaining to him that I am running […]
ME: “Dude, I went to this two day handgun-based class! We worked for over 20 total hours!” BUDDY: “Awesome, man! How many rounds did you fire?” ME: “Thirteen.” BUDDY: (crickets) Obviously, this was not a “regular” two-day handgun class. This was a force-on-force class that was more about decision-making, application of knowledge of use-of-force laws, […]
If you haven’t already read Robert’s comprehensive AAR of Shotgun 360, please do go read it first. As usual when I write an AAR2, this is just going to be my thoughts and highlights rather than a complete rundown of the entire class. I have to apologize for the delay in publishing this… Hurricane Isaias […]
The Scattergun. The Shotty. The Boomstick. The Shotgat. The Street Howitzer. The Gauge. I suppose it makes sense that a firearm that is so ubiquitous and carries so many nicknames would be, as Tom Givens says, “the least understood…..weapon system.” After my first one-day shotgun class I was confident I would never take another. I […]
A carbine course with a twist. Those are just my words. This course caught my eye as soon as it was listed back around New Years because it seemed like something just a little bit different than a “standard” carbine course. The course is called “Compact Carbine Deployment”. Here is the course description: This course […]
Well, this course was a little bit different! One of my goals this year, when it comes to training, was to get out of my comfort zone (“get comfortable being uncomfortable!”). Starting with this first course of my training year, I can honestly say: mission accomplished! These two days of training took me, for the […]
This past weekend, I was able to attend Frank Proctor Shooting’s Proctor Pistol Process “The Fundamentals of Fast” (2 day course). I had been aware of Frank Proctor for a while, having previously purchased one of his DVDs, and decided to sign up after reading some favorable comments posted about an earlier iteration of this […]
Similar to recent posts by Robert, I thought I might share a brief year in review and some thoughts on the coming year. 2019 was not nearly as tough on me as it was on Robert, but it has not been without its challenges. In but one example of this, I did not make it […]
The time that John and I have been putting into the study of the shotgun continued for me last week. Less than two months after taking “Shotgun Skills” with Tim Chandler and Ashton Ray (taught under the FPF Training banner), I once again got to learn under the expert tutelage of Tim in his Home […]
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