Both John and I are wont to carry a purpose-made tourniquet on our bodies as often as possible. We both recognize the likelihood of needing medical gear is probably higher than needing our concealed pistol, and we also are aware of the efficacy of two tourniquets in particular: the North American Rescue Combat Application Tourniquet […]
I attended my first Rangemaster Tactical Conference (TacCon for short) in 2017. I skipped last year’s conference for a variety of reasons, but was eager to get back this year and so registered quite early (I registered March 28th, 2018!). John attended with me and has shared his thoughts here. This year’s conference was held […]
New for this year, Kyle Defoor has begun to offer one day carbine classes held either immediately before or after his regular two day classes. Fortunately, one such single day class was scheduled within easy driving distance for me. Seeing that it was on one of my normal days off, I jumped at the chance […]
I continue to view John Murphy of FPF Training as something of a hidden gem in the training industry. My experience in courses I have taken with him to date is that he provides realistic, research-based training. Accordingly, I remain drawn to the menagerie of courses he offers. As it happened, though my plan is, […]
As a teacher, I often have to sit through various in-service trainings during which I get to hear fellow educators with less experience than me discuss “research-based best practices.” It has gotten to be such an eye-roll moment for me that whenever I use the instructional techniques they advocate in my classroom, I preface them […]
. In prior articles (see here, here, and here) I have provided some tricks and tips for concealment that have worked for me over years. However, I must admit that I am lucky in that I am able to dress in a very casual way at work. While some old-timers might bemoan the fact that […]
Readers of this blog are most likely familiar with the term “the other strong hand”. Many firearms instructors use this terminology (Bill Rapier used this term in this class) in lieu of “weak hand”. Words have meaning, and the idea is to use positive words (“other strong”) versus words with more of a negative tone […]
Most of our readers have probably heard of the Rule of Four S’s. I think John and I have both referenced it before in articles in the past. I believe this rule is generally accredited to the great John Farnam (though I think his version had three S’s rather than four, but whatever). The rule […]
After the fantastic experience I had in Greg Ellifritz’s “Extreme Close Quarters Gunfighting” class in October of 2016—my final class last year—it seemed fitting to begin my 2017 coursework with two more classes from Greg. The two courses were “Tactical First Aid and System Collapse Medicine” and “Groundfighting”. John and I chose to take these two […]
In my article on my EDC gear, I included a flat-folded SOFTT-W tourniquet that I had been carrying for quite a while. Part of that time I had rubber-banded some flat folded duct tape and a package of Quik Clot Combat Gauze to it for a nice, compact blow-out kit I could carry virtually anywhere in […]
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