John Hearne is an evil genius. There. I said it. Oh. And he loves it. Fresh on the heels of taking his “Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why” lecture on Friday, September 8, 2023, I was one of the twelve lucky students to take what was only the second iteration of the two-day version of […]
I’ve written previously about my revolver dry practice routine. Recently, I noticed something that I was doing subconsciously. Namely, the degree of cant when aiming one handed. I noticed that I cant the gun to a noticeably greater degree with my support hand than I do with my primary hand. (Apologies for the crappy cellphone […]
I first trained with John Murphy of FPF Training in the Spring of 2016, and I have returned to him numerous times since. As an educator myself, it has been interesting to watch his curricula and his instructional methodology change over time. The first class I took with him was called “Street Encounters Skills” (AAR […]
Lee Weems and his guests in a recent episode (aired April 11, 2022) of That Weems Guy made an analogy that taking a class more than once is like watching a movie more than once; you will always pick up things on a second viewing that you missed the first time. What a great analogy! […]
This past weekend, I spent two days at the gun club where I’m a member taking part in a Project Appleseed event. This class took place shortly after the April 19th anniversary of “the shot heard around the world.” This is an important point, as the Appleseed Project is fundamentally based on Revolutionary War history […]
I have neglected dry fire for far too long now. Live fire too, for that matter. I would probably be embarrassed to go shoot at the range tomorrow. To compound the problem, I have recently been toting a J-Frame revolver either in the waistband or pocket. Say what you will, but I have also been […]
I cannot imagine there are too many people in my shoes. I have been to many classes over the years, almost all of them documented here on the blog. I have met a lot of people in those classes. Accountants, police officers, information technology specialists, lawyers, doctors, army reservists, etc. I cannot ever recall meeting […]
Well, 2021 was a bit different than past years. I went into the year with less of a plan than usual in terms of which classes I might take. On the flip side, I had a definite theme to most of the classes I did take. So, for the sixth year running (see my previous […]
“Go see Kelly McCann,” my mentor said. “Learn violence,” he said. Mission Accomplished! My “year of Kelly McCann” was completed last weekend with the best of the bunch, his “Basic Combatives” course. Unlike the other “physical” classes I took with Kelly earlier this year (see reviews of all the classes I did with him here, […]
One would have thought, with the hundreds of hours of training that I have now accrued, that I would have taken several classes more than once. Honestly, I had to go through my AARs to confirm that I had never done so. Well it WAS true…until now. And how fitting it is that the first […]
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