My journey to “learn more about violence” continued this past weekend with my third course taught by Kelly McCann (see reviews of the two classes I took earlier this year here and here). This class was a bit different than the prior two. For one thing, this was the first two-day course I did with […]
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 […]
I’m late to the party with this brief post, but I thought it was worth penning nonetheless. Despite the fact that I say a prayer with my children every night before bed and also before flying, scuba diving, or climbing on a motorcycle, I consider myself a relatively secular agnostic. My wife, however, is a […]
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 […]
No, sorry, this is not an article about dry practice. You should already be doing dry practice (a.k.a. “dry fire”) anyway. While the current ammunition shortage might have you doing more dry practice in order to preserve the ammunition supplies you have on hand, this article is more about training options you might want to […]
As I do each year, I like to get at least some general goals and objectives laid out for the year. However, for several reasons, this year my goals are not as “tight” as they typically would be. For one thing, as of this writing, I am still unsure how Covid will impact things. I […]
Once again this year, separate from my annual “Pay to Play” article, this is what has become another tradition: looking back at my year (see previous installments here, here, here, and here). What goals did I achieve or fail to achieve? What surprises came up along the way? 2020 was certainly a challenging year on […]
Last year, for a number of reasons, I didn’t make my annual out of state hunting foray. I vowed then that I would not miss this year. That was, of course, pre-COVID. Well, one planned hog hunting trip did get cancelled at the initial height of the pandemic, but an old friend and I did […]
Here we are again. Each of the last few years (see here, here, here, and here) I have written an article along these lines. These are meant mostly as an audit for myself, as I find it interesting (and somewhat depressing) to see how much I spent on classes and competitive matches over the course […]
Uncharted territory! The largest number of IDPA matches I ever shot in a year (prior to 2020) was five. And the largest number of matches overall in a year was six. I have now beaten both of those personal records, shooting in my seventh IDPA match of this year. As the readers will see, this […]
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