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Instructor Development Qualifications
March 29, 2016

Getting ready to teach several classes on Instructor Development this year — the soonest one is coming up fast! That class will be held at KR Training in TX and I’m very excited about it. During a longer conversation on … Continue reading →

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Repetition and habit
January 24, 2016

Repetition builds and reinforces neural pathways. It makes routine actions basically automatic, requiring very little concious effort. This is a good thing! When we do an action that we’ve already repeated many times before — think about grabbing the gear … Continue reading →

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For the joy of it
September 2, 2015

Yesterday, I told an untruth. It wasn’t deliberate, but it was an untruth. Here it is: “Doing things that are hard and even unpleasant is the only way we improve as humans.” The mistake was using the word and. Should … Continue reading →

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Lesson from an old guy
July 14, 2015

Roughly three or four years after I first began learning to shoot, I met an older gentleman – Jim – who had a profound influence on my shooting development. Jim bounced into the room on the first day of a … Continue reading →

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Historical teaching note
June 4, 2015

The soldier should acquire the above by degrees. If the soldier’s attention be at first confined to aiming his piece, he will more readily acquire this than if he were required to aim, and to take a prescribed position at … Continue reading →

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Mirror, mirror, on the range…
June 1, 2015

Did you know there are special cells inside your brain that are actually designed to mimic the people around you? Yup. It’s true. They are called mirror neurons, like holding a mirror up in front of your face. Imitating others … Continue reading →

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Moving targets at 25 yards — FAS Level 4 Handgun (part 2)
May 21, 2015

Here’s a video that we recorded during the Level 4 Handgun class at the Firearms Academy of Seattle last weekend. It’s a montage of several different strings of fire, a sequence that led students through the following activities: Draw and … Continue reading →

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Love
April 27, 2015

In an email to a friend a few days ago, we were discussing ways to develop new firearms instructors via the apprenticeship model. I was talking about my own experience of learning from some of the best defensive handgun trainers … Continue reading →

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