JB Training LLC offers private lessons. Why would you want to take a private lesson.
First you may want to learn specific tactics or shooting techniques and you do not wish to take a formal class with other students to do this. The big advantage of a private lesson is you get to specify what subjects you want to learn and how long you want to devote to your private lesson.
Second, you will have the undivided attention of our Chief Instructor who will guide you through your instruction. You will move through the instruction at your own pace and be able to change the direction of the training if you so desire. Our Chief Instructor is very experienced and is capable of teaching anything that is found in all of our courses.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Proactive versus Reactive gunfights
Proactive - Being proactive in an assault situation means you have the ability to anticipate the assault and to take actions before the assault has taken place. This allows you to be able to anticipate what the criminal who is assaulting you is going to do before he or she does it.. If this is the case you may be able to preempt their actions or at least cause them to have to react to your actions. The person in a gunfight who is able to be proactive has greatly increased their chances of winning that fight. Being aware of your surroundings is taught as one of the best ways to be proactive. Often you can trust your instincts that may warn you if something does not seem to be "right." Learn not to ignore these warnings.
Reactive - Being reactive in an assault means you are in the position of having to react to what is happening in the assault. In most cases you will be at a disadvantage. Always being in a reactive mode greatly reduces your chances of surviving a gunfight.
A lot of self defense instructors seem to assume that you will be able to be proactive when you are being assaulted. If you are carrying a concealed firearm this is not likely to be the case as you are not allowed to brandish your firearm simply because you think an assault might happen. Legally, you must be in fear of death or great bodily harm before you can use deadly force. Drawing your gun in a situation where the conditions of ABILITY, OPPORTUNITY, AND JEOPARDY are not present can result in criminal charges being placed against you.
JB Training LLC and other companies we have trained with teach if you can be proactive then that is the best possible situation. However, the number of times a concealed carry person can be proactive is actually quiet limited. We cover those situations in our classes.
To handle the most likely types of assaults we teach techniques that are designed to work in reactive situations. These techniques are designed to turn the tables on your attackers and let you regain the initiative. You become proactive and your assailant must become reactive.
For example, if the person assaulting you has a gun pointed at you this is a reactive situation. In reality criminals look for situations where you will be placed into a reactive situation. Trying to draw your gun when someone has a gun pointed at you is a pretty poor strategy as you are not likely to be able to get your gun out before your assailant has shot you multiple times.
A way to convert this situation from reactive to proactive is to perform a dynamic movement while drawing your pistol or performing some other action that causes your assailant to have to react to what you are doing. Your movement will cause your assailant to have to react to your movement thereby gaining a tactical advantage for you. His reaction lag time can be used to buy you the time needed to take a proactive action such as getting your gun into action and delivering combat accurate shots on him. When the assailant is very close other close combat actions may be more appropriate. The gun should not be your only option.
If your instructor does not understand the vital differences between being proactive and reactive you are not likely to be learning the skills and techniques needed to prevail in a deadly assault situation. Knowing how to turn a reactive situation into a proactive one can be the difference between life and death.
Reactive - Being reactive in an assault means you are in the position of having to react to what is happening in the assault. In most cases you will be at a disadvantage. Always being in a reactive mode greatly reduces your chances of surviving a gunfight.
A lot of self defense instructors seem to assume that you will be able to be proactive when you are being assaulted. If you are carrying a concealed firearm this is not likely to be the case as you are not allowed to brandish your firearm simply because you think an assault might happen. Legally, you must be in fear of death or great bodily harm before you can use deadly force. Drawing your gun in a situation where the conditions of ABILITY, OPPORTUNITY, AND JEOPARDY are not present can result in criminal charges being placed against you.
JB Training LLC and other companies we have trained with teach if you can be proactive then that is the best possible situation. However, the number of times a concealed carry person can be proactive is actually quiet limited. We cover those situations in our classes.
To handle the most likely types of assaults we teach techniques that are designed to work in reactive situations. These techniques are designed to turn the tables on your attackers and let you regain the initiative. You become proactive and your assailant must become reactive.
For example, if the person assaulting you has a gun pointed at you this is a reactive situation. In reality criminals look for situations where you will be placed into a reactive situation. Trying to draw your gun when someone has a gun pointed at you is a pretty poor strategy as you are not likely to be able to get your gun out before your assailant has shot you multiple times.
A way to convert this situation from reactive to proactive is to perform a dynamic movement while drawing your pistol or performing some other action that causes your assailant to have to react to what you are doing. Your movement will cause your assailant to have to react to your movement thereby gaining a tactical advantage for you. His reaction lag time can be used to buy you the time needed to take a proactive action such as getting your gun into action and delivering combat accurate shots on him. When the assailant is very close other close combat actions may be more appropriate. The gun should not be your only option.
If your instructor does not understand the vital differences between being proactive and reactive you are not likely to be learning the skills and techniques needed to prevail in a deadly assault situation. Knowing how to turn a reactive situation into a proactive one can be the difference between life and death.
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Female Shooter Requirements
Female shooters seeking training should give consideration to the background of the person who will do their training. In a previous post I mentioned that there are four training models being employed by various trainers, namely law enforcement, military, competition, and self defense.
Personally, I do not believe an instructor who uses a training model based on a law enforcement or military training model will provide the best learning experience for a female shooter who is planning on using her firearm for self defense. For the most part these models assume a shooter will be proactive when engaging a threat. Their assumptions concerning rules of engagement and backup availability do not apply to many self defense situations.
A trainer using the competition model will teach shooting techniques that are target shooting based. In these classes the students will learn good shooting techniques that will enable them to shoot tight groups in paper targets.
In my opinion instructors who operate with the self defense model will be the ones most likely to provide a female shooter with the training they need to employ a pistol for self defense. They will deal with all aspects of the fight since an assault that involves firearms is really a gunfight.There are many aspects of an assault that are specific to a female who is being attacked and the instructor should be aware of these factors and cover them in their classes. Take a look at my Self Defense Shooting for Zero to 25 Feet to see a course that provides training in the close distances where assaults are most likely to occur. This also is the distance where a home invasion engagement is likely to occur.
I recommend that a prospective student ask their instructor what experience they have in training female students. One initial way to determine this is to see if the trainer offers women only classes. While this is not an absolute guarantee that the training experience will meet female shooter needs, it at least suggests that the trainer has had to come to grips with factors that make a female shooter different from a male shooter.
JB Training LLC offers female only classes and has trained many female students. If necessary we can call on female assistant instructors to assist us in our classes.
One of the most outstanding web sites that deals with the subject of a female shooter is
http://corneredcat.com/TOC.aspx
This material has been developed by Kathy Jackson who is a well known female in the shooting world.
I highly recommend female students access and read this material as it will answer a lot of questions.
Personally, I do not believe an instructor who uses a training model based on a law enforcement or military training model will provide the best learning experience for a female shooter who is planning on using her firearm for self defense. For the most part these models assume a shooter will be proactive when engaging a threat. Their assumptions concerning rules of engagement and backup availability do not apply to many self defense situations.
A trainer using the competition model will teach shooting techniques that are target shooting based. In these classes the students will learn good shooting techniques that will enable them to shoot tight groups in paper targets.
In my opinion instructors who operate with the self defense model will be the ones most likely to provide a female shooter with the training they need to employ a pistol for self defense. They will deal with all aspects of the fight since an assault that involves firearms is really a gunfight.There are many aspects of an assault that are specific to a female who is being attacked and the instructor should be aware of these factors and cover them in their classes. Take a look at my Self Defense Shooting for Zero to 25 Feet to see a course that provides training in the close distances where assaults are most likely to occur. This also is the distance where a home invasion engagement is likely to occur.
I recommend that a prospective student ask their instructor what experience they have in training female students. One initial way to determine this is to see if the trainer offers women only classes. While this is not an absolute guarantee that the training experience will meet female shooter needs, it at least suggests that the trainer has had to come to grips with factors that make a female shooter different from a male shooter.
JB Training LLC offers female only classes and has trained many female students. If necessary we can call on female assistant instructors to assist us in our classes.
One of the most outstanding web sites that deals with the subject of a female shooter is
http://corneredcat.com/TOC.aspx
This material has been developed by Kathy Jackson who is a well known female in the shooting world.
I highly recommend female students access and read this material as it will answer a lot of questions.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Notes on the Springfield XD's Failure to Fire issues
Some of my favorite guns both to shoot and to carry are Springfield XD's.
However, because I teach and practice dynamic movement and drawing and shooting on the move it was possible for me to end up with the XD in my hand with a less than perfect grip. This meant the grip safety was not depressed enough to let the XD fire without taking the time to shift the grip in my hand. Of course shifting the grip to engage the grip saftey would only happen when I realized the gun was not going to go bang. Once I had an FTF it meant some action needed to be taken to get the pistol to fire. Tap/Rack is not the cure for this type of FTF.
Needless to say this is not a situation I wanted if I was trying to use my XD to defend myself.
Thanks to members of the Suarez International Warrior Talk forum I found a product that was developed to provide a cure for this problem. Springer Precision LLC www.springerpresision.com makes a replacement enhanced grip safety that fits XD's and XDm's
I purchased two of the enhanced grip safeties and installed them on an XD9 and an XD9C. I am happy to report that it is now possible to grip either XD with a grip that is far from perfect and still get the grip safety to depress.
With this product installed I am now confident that my XD's will no longer produce FTF's when I need them to fire under less than perfect conditions.
This problem is most likely to be encountered by persons who have hands that are on the small side. It also only occurred during periods of dynamic movement and drawing while moving. Most persons who shoot an XD are not likely to experience an FTF due to the grip safety.
However, because I teach and practice dynamic movement and drawing and shooting on the move it was possible for me to end up with the XD in my hand with a less than perfect grip. This meant the grip safety was not depressed enough to let the XD fire without taking the time to shift the grip in my hand. Of course shifting the grip to engage the grip saftey would only happen when I realized the gun was not going to go bang. Once I had an FTF it meant some action needed to be taken to get the pistol to fire. Tap/Rack is not the cure for this type of FTF.
Needless to say this is not a situation I wanted if I was trying to use my XD to defend myself.
Thanks to members of the Suarez International Warrior Talk forum I found a product that was developed to provide a cure for this problem. Springer Precision LLC www.springerpresision.com makes a replacement enhanced grip safety that fits XD's and XDm's
I purchased two of the enhanced grip safeties and installed them on an XD9 and an XD9C. I am happy to report that it is now possible to grip either XD with a grip that is far from perfect and still get the grip safety to depress.
With this product installed I am now confident that my XD's will no longer produce FTF's when I need them to fire under less than perfect conditions.
This problem is most likely to be encountered by persons who have hands that are on the small side. It also only occurred during periods of dynamic movement and drawing while moving. Most persons who shoot an XD are not likely to experience an FTF due to the grip safety.
Selection of an Instructor
One of the important questions you should ask when considering spending your money on training is what type of instructor should I choose so I will be provided with the type of instruction that will be most valuable to me.
Stephen Wenger has a web page on this subject that you might want to consider reading before making that decision. The page can be found at http://www.spw-duf.info/instructor.html.
Stephen identifies four basic models for shooting instruction.
1. Self Defense Model - Suarez International and Massod Ayoob's LFI courses are examples of two companies who use this model.
2. Law Enforcement model - Most instructors who teach using this model have a law enforcement background. The rules of engagement and tactics that apply to law enforcement offer are not generally useful for a civilian person who has a CCW and expects to use their handgun for self defense.
3. Military model - Instructors who use this model will have a military background or SWAT background and teach the tactics and techniques useful for those types of situations.
4. Competition model - Instructors who teach with this model will tend to emphasize their competition credentials, especially in IDPA and/or IPSC or other forms of competition shooting. They tend to be excellent target shooters and often excel in competitions. Most NRA courses tend to fall into this category
The training offered by JB Training LLC is based on the self defense model as we believe this model offers the best instruction for a person who may have to use a handgun to defend themselves. The tactics and techniques we teach are designed for a person who carries or may carry a pistol or who wishes to protect themselves in their home using a pistol.
Stephen Wenger has a web page on this subject that you might want to consider reading before making that decision. The page can be found at http://www.spw-duf.info/instructor.html.
Stephen identifies four basic models for shooting instruction.
1. Self Defense Model - Suarez International and Massod Ayoob's LFI courses are examples of two companies who use this model.
2. Law Enforcement model - Most instructors who teach using this model have a law enforcement background. The rules of engagement and tactics that apply to law enforcement offer are not generally useful for a civilian person who has a CCW and expects to use their handgun for self defense.
3. Military model - Instructors who use this model will have a military background or SWAT background and teach the tactics and techniques useful for those types of situations.
4. Competition model - Instructors who teach with this model will tend to emphasize their competition credentials, especially in IDPA and/or IPSC or other forms of competition shooting. They tend to be excellent target shooters and often excel in competitions. Most NRA courses tend to fall into this category
The training offered by JB Training LLC is based on the self defense model as we believe this model offers the best instruction for a person who may have to use a handgun to defend themselves. The tactics and techniques we teach are designed for a person who carries or may carry a pistol or who wishes to protect themselves in their home using a pistol.
Good Sources for Information on Point Shooting
As you can see from the training courses I have taken I think point shooting is an important part of the shooting continuum. The shooting method to be used to defend yourself is dependent upon the situation with the distance to the threat, lighting conditions, weather, and whether other persons are being defended. While point shooting is not the only shooting skill one should have it may be one of the most important skills to possess for self defense. In these cases assaults often happen at close ranges and often in poor light.
That being said if you cannot take my courses that will teach you the shooting continuum there are a number of sources of good information on the point shooting portion of that continuum. However, nothing beats training with an instructor who can teach and demonstrate skills across the shooting continuum.
Roger Phillips - Roger is a Suarez International instructor that I have trained with multiple times. Roger has published one book and two CD's. The book is entitled POINT SHOOTING PROGRESSIONS. The DVD's are entitled INTRODUCTION TO POINT SHOOTING and POINT SHOOTING PROGRESSIONS. I have copies of all three and highly recommend them. If you have nothing else in your library these should be there. They can be found at :
http://www.onesourcetactical.com/dvdsbyrogerphillips.aspx
Your point shooting library also might contain the following which explain the origins of point shooting. Fairbain and Sykes are credited with publication of the first material on this subject and they taught it and used it extensively in their careers. Col. Rex Applegate learned point shooting from them and taught it to the OSS during WWII.
Point Shooting
Battle-Proven Methods Of Combat Handgunning
with an Introduction by Col. Rex Applegate
Shooting For Keeps
Point Shooting For Close-Quarter Combat
with Colonel Rex Applegate
Bullseyes Don't Shoot Back
The Complete Textbook Of Point Shooting For Close Quarters Combat
by Colonel Rex Applegate and Michael D Janich
Shoot Him to the Ground
Tactical Point Shooting For The 21st Century
with Matthew Temkin - Matthew trained with Applegate and offers some undated thoughts on improving the original works.
All of the above can be found at Paladin Press.
Another good site with lots of good information is available from Stephen Wenger. His site can be found at
http://www.spw-duf.info/site.html. A specific section on point shooting is found at
http://www.spw-duf.info/point.html
That being said if you cannot take my courses that will teach you the shooting continuum there are a number of sources of good information on the point shooting portion of that continuum. However, nothing beats training with an instructor who can teach and demonstrate skills across the shooting continuum.
Roger Phillips - Roger is a Suarez International instructor that I have trained with multiple times. Roger has published one book and two CD's. The book is entitled POINT SHOOTING PROGRESSIONS. The DVD's are entitled INTRODUCTION TO POINT SHOOTING and POINT SHOOTING PROGRESSIONS. I have copies of all three and highly recommend them. If you have nothing else in your library these should be there. They can be found at :
http://www.onesourcetactical.com/dvdsbyrogerphillips.aspx
Your point shooting library also might contain the following which explain the origins of point shooting. Fairbain and Sykes are credited with publication of the first material on this subject and they taught it and used it extensively in their careers. Col. Rex Applegate learned point shooting from them and taught it to the OSS during WWII.
Point Shooting
Battle-Proven Methods Of Combat Handgunning
with an Introduction by Col. Rex Applegate
Shooting For Keeps
Point Shooting For Close-Quarter Combat
with Colonel Rex Applegate
Bullseyes Don't Shoot Back
The Complete Textbook Of Point Shooting For Close Quarters Combat
by Colonel Rex Applegate and Michael D Janich
Shoot Him to the Ground
Tactical Point Shooting For The 21st Century
with Matthew Temkin - Matthew trained with Applegate and offers some undated thoughts on improving the original works.
All of the above can be found at Paladin Press.
Another good site with lots of good information is available from Stephen Wenger. His site can be found at
http://www.spw-duf.info/site.html. A specific section on point shooting is found at
http://www.spw-duf.info/point.html
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Roger Phillips recommendations on training
I have trained with Roger Phillips and consider him to be an outstanding instructor. If you get a chance I recommend you train with him. The following is his advice on how to select your training. QUOTE FROM ROGER PHILLIPS
Last edited by Roger Phillips : Yesterday at 11:10 AM.
Individual Prioritization
“There are no short cuts; there is only the individual priority of what you need and when you need it.”
It is my opinion that learning, training, and practicing, is a never ending process. What we have is a huge self defense puzzle and we should be looking to acquire pieces to that puzzle in a manner that reflects a prioritization of what we need and when we need it. This can be a very difficult decision making process because from our very first course, we realize that we know so very little. Even for guys like me that have been hunting and shooting my whole life, my first course only let me know how little that I really knew.
As we look to prioritize, we need to look at our situation. What is our mission, goal, threat level, occupation, life style, responsibility, and mindset.
What so many people do not understand is that you do not have to be an LEO or soldier to have a high threat level. I have met a number of guys from a number of different walks of life that can articulate a very substantial threat level. This is usually from their occupation, but it can also be from their life style (where they live) and responsibility (protection of self or a loved one that is being stalked.)
I have trained with a number of guys that have made the decision to train with me, to learn combat shooting fundamentals before they learned marksmanship fundamentals. Many of these guys do not have the time to get to the advanced levels of combat shooting through the marksmanship path. They recognize the fact that that path would take too long and not give them what they need "right now." They recognize that the marksmanship path does not take the physiological response of the reactive gunfight into consideration. Most of all they realize that the chances of a reactive encounter is much more likely, to their specific situation, than a proactive encounter. They also understand that they do still need to acquire the marksmanship skill sets. But, they want to have the time to make that fine motor skill happen, all the while having their "most likely" situations covered in a very effective and efficient manner.
This type of thinking, for these guys, is very good to see. When I first started training (due to a high threat level occupation) I did not have the resources that are available now. There was virtually one path and that path was slow and inefficient. That training was all about reprogramming your natural instincts, abilities, and reactions out of you, replacing them with condition responses that did not take the typical physiological responses of the fight or flight response into consideration.
All I know is that I am very happy and lucky to be in the position to give these guys an option that is far superior to the options that I had.
The guys that taught me this stuff took a lot of heat bringing it back from the dead. They did it for one reason "to make sure that you went home at the end of the day." That is the bottom line and IMHO they have succeeded in their efforts.
It is my opinion that nobody is in the position to direct a student on which priorities he needs to be learning, but the student himself.
The question then arises, how do you help prepare yourself for the best decisions possible? IMHO an honest and realistic threat assessment must be made. This means that we must educate ourselves to the threat level that we face on a daily basis. This edification can be a very large job encompassing a number of different factors and elements. As we do this we must be careful about becoming too extreme in our thinking, we must avoid the "tinfoil hat" paranoia. As we come up with our well researched, honest, realistic, and non paranoid threat assessment, we begin to get a picture of what we need and when we need it.
Just as an example, here is a very quick list of priorities that would seem to make sense to me, inside of my very personal situation.
Mindset; Know the enemy, know the pre attack indicators, know yourself, know the laws, have your line firmly drawn in the sand, eliminate or mitigate concerns that may make you hesitate. "He who hesitates, dies!" Get your mind right!
Home Defense; Develop a multilayered approach to home security. Become competent in quality home defense weapon systems that handle your personal situation the best. Rifle, shotgun, or handgun each tool has its place where it shines. Foster knowledge and competence in tactics. Develop the knowledge that "hunting" "clearing" or "searching" as a lone home owner is extremely risky undertaking. Prioritize securing the loved ones, taking up a fortified position, staying under the cloak of darkness, and laying in wait to engage from a proactive position.
Conceal Carry; Being away from home can put you in some of the very worse of positions. I consider the concealed carry skill sets as some of our most important due to the high possibility of starting the fight from behind in the reactionary curve and working through a low light situation. Get the very best training that you can find for these situations. It is my opinion that the hand to hand skill sets, integrated with the draw stroke from concealment, coupled with dynamic movement, and point shooting skill sets are the absolute core to self defense with a handgun.
SHTF Situations; Katrina, Rodney King, Watts, etc has proven to us that things can go very wrong.....very quickly! Emergency preparedness is a must. Training, such as we see in the Suarez International Rifle courses and the High Risk Operator course, become obviously necessary skill sets.
This is just a real quick example of honest and common sense approach to an individuals list of priorities.
There is a certain realization, about the amount of time that most of us can dedicate to one aspect of the fight. Once we look at the context of "the fight" it becomes very clear that we can not just be specialists. We must be well rounded, we must be versatile. This does not allow us to focus on being "the best" on any one thing. Most of us are working stiffs, with families, responsibilities, and other interests. We do the best that we can do, within our busy lives, to be the best that we can be at defending our loved ones and ourselves. We must come up with a way to cover as much of the "most likely" as we can.
If we keep an open mind, if we develop an "inclusive" attitude, we can easily pick and choose common sense concepts that take care of the "most likely" at an efficient and effective level. To reach this efficient and effective level we must make compromises. These compromises need to be geared to the individual prioritization. A prioritization concept that may never allow for the individual to reach the level of the best shooters in the world……but may make him the very best that he can be within the specifics of his very personal situation.
“There are no short cuts; there is only the individual priority of what you need and when you need it.”
It is my opinion that learning, training, and practicing, is a never ending process. What we have is a huge self defense puzzle and we should be looking to acquire pieces to that puzzle in a manner that reflects a prioritization of what we need and when we need it. This can be a very difficult decision making process because from our very first course, we realize that we know so very little. Even for guys like me that have been hunting and shooting my whole life, my first course only let me know how little that I really knew.
As we look to prioritize, we need to look at our situation. What is our mission, goal, threat level, occupation, life style, responsibility, and mindset.
What so many people do not understand is that you do not have to be an LEO or soldier to have a high threat level. I have met a number of guys from a number of different walks of life that can articulate a very substantial threat level. This is usually from their occupation, but it can also be from their life style (where they live) and responsibility (protection of self or a loved one that is being stalked.)
I have trained with a number of guys that have made the decision to train with me, to learn combat shooting fundamentals before they learned marksmanship fundamentals. Many of these guys do not have the time to get to the advanced levels of combat shooting through the marksmanship path. They recognize the fact that that path would take too long and not give them what they need "right now." They recognize that the marksmanship path does not take the physiological response of the reactive gunfight into consideration. Most of all they realize that the chances of a reactive encounter is much more likely, to their specific situation, than a proactive encounter. They also understand that they do still need to acquire the marksmanship skill sets. But, they want to have the time to make that fine motor skill happen, all the while having their "most likely" situations covered in a very effective and efficient manner.
This type of thinking, for these guys, is very good to see. When I first started training (due to a high threat level occupation) I did not have the resources that are available now. There was virtually one path and that path was slow and inefficient. That training was all about reprogramming your natural instincts, abilities, and reactions out of you, replacing them with condition responses that did not take the typical physiological responses of the fight or flight response into consideration.
All I know is that I am very happy and lucky to be in the position to give these guys an option that is far superior to the options that I had.
The guys that taught me this stuff took a lot of heat bringing it back from the dead. They did it for one reason "to make sure that you went home at the end of the day." That is the bottom line and IMHO they have succeeded in their efforts.
It is my opinion that nobody is in the position to direct a student on which priorities he needs to be learning, but the student himself.
The question then arises, how do you help prepare yourself for the best decisions possible? IMHO an honest and realistic threat assessment must be made. This means that we must educate ourselves to the threat level that we face on a daily basis. This edification can be a very large job encompassing a number of different factors and elements. As we do this we must be careful about becoming too extreme in our thinking, we must avoid the "tinfoil hat" paranoia. As we come up with our well researched, honest, realistic, and non paranoid threat assessment, we begin to get a picture of what we need and when we need it.
Just as an example, here is a very quick list of priorities that would seem to make sense to me, inside of my very personal situation.
Mindset; Know the enemy, know the pre attack indicators, know yourself, know the laws, have your line firmly drawn in the sand, eliminate or mitigate concerns that may make you hesitate. "He who hesitates, dies!" Get your mind right!
Home Defense; Develop a multilayered approach to home security. Become competent in quality home defense weapon systems that handle your personal situation the best. Rifle, shotgun, or handgun each tool has its place where it shines. Foster knowledge and competence in tactics. Develop the knowledge that "hunting" "clearing" or "searching" as a lone home owner is extremely risky undertaking. Prioritize securing the loved ones, taking up a fortified position, staying under the cloak of darkness, and laying in wait to engage from a proactive position.
Conceal Carry; Being away from home can put you in some of the very worse of positions. I consider the concealed carry skill sets as some of our most important due to the high possibility of starting the fight from behind in the reactionary curve and working through a low light situation. Get the very best training that you can find for these situations. It is my opinion that the hand to hand skill sets, integrated with the draw stroke from concealment, coupled with dynamic movement, and point shooting skill sets are the absolute core to self defense with a handgun.
SHTF Situations; Katrina, Rodney King, Watts, etc has proven to us that things can go very wrong.....very quickly! Emergency preparedness is a must. Training, such as we see in the Suarez International Rifle courses and the High Risk Operator course, become obviously necessary skill sets.
This is just a real quick example of honest and common sense approach to an individuals list of priorities.
There is a certain realization, about the amount of time that most of us can dedicate to one aspect of the fight. Once we look at the context of "the fight" it becomes very clear that we can not just be specialists. We must be well rounded, we must be versatile. This does not allow us to focus on being "the best" on any one thing. Most of us are working stiffs, with families, responsibilities, and other interests. We do the best that we can do, within our busy lives, to be the best that we can be at defending our loved ones and ourselves. We must come up with a way to cover as much of the "most likely" as we can.
If we keep an open mind, if we develop an "inclusive" attitude, we can easily pick and choose common sense concepts that take care of the "most likely" at an efficient and effective level. To reach this efficient and effective level we must make compromises. These compromises need to be geared to the individual prioritization. A prioritization concept that may never allow for the individual to reach the level of the best shooters in the world……but may make him the very best that he can be within the specifics of his very personal situation.
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http://fightfocusedconcepts.com/home
Situations dictate strategy, strategy dictates tactics, and tactics dictate techniques......techniques should not dictate anything.
"There are no short cuts, there is only the individuals priority of what they need and when they need it."
"The biggest factor inside of the situation is YOU! Who are you? What are your strengths, what are your weaknesses? What is the perfect fighting system built around your very personal situation?"
http://fightfocusedconcepts.com/home
Situations dictate strategy, strategy dictates tactics, and tactics dictate techniques......techniques should not dictate anything.
"There are no short cuts, there is only the individuals priority of what they need and when they need it."
"The biggest factor inside of the situation is YOU! Who are you? What are your strengths, what are your weaknesses? What is the perfect fighting system built around your very personal situation?"
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