OK fellow shooters.
What’s your favorite drill?
Bill drill? 4×20 Transition drill? El Presidente? Texas CHL course? Central Texas Standards?
Please add a comment to this post describing it. Give me the name, a link to a webpage that describes the drill and/or a detailed description of how to perform the drill.
I’m collecting this for a project I’m working on. Thanx!
Might be light on posting this week. I took the week off work and have been busy with things that keep me away from the computer.
For instance, this morning I did some processing work on the hog I shot on Thursday. The 2 shoulders are presenting bathing in oak smoke. 🙂
So, posting should happen, I just expect it to be light as I’m otherwise occupied this week.
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
-Buddha
Trouble’s a cool band. I dig their early stuff, but I think “Manic Frustration” was my favorite album.
Here’s “Memory’s Garden” from “Manic Frustration”
Here’s “Assassin”, from “Psalm 9″… and recorded on public access TV! Get your exposure wherever you can. 🙂
And here’s “At The End Of My Daze” from their self-titled album:
“Plastic Green Head”, a more recent song:
Got to see them live during a CMJ Music Marathon back in the early 90’s, including doing a meet and great. They were nice guys, a little tired at the event, but very nice.
I must admit tho, I prefer Eric Wagner’s singing. While I dig what Kory Clarke did in Warrior Soul, his vocals are just so radically different and it doesn’t really fit the vibe of what Trouble means to me (and apparently a lot of other fans). That’s why I put a lot of Eric-era videos in here, so you could hear how the band sounded with him singing.
Here’s Kory singing “Come Touch The Sky”
And while it’s not an exciting video, here’s the original recording, with Eric Wagner singing:
Here’s Kory singing on a new track called “Hunters Of Doom”:
Sorry. It’s just not the same. Granted, I guess the band doesn’t want to sound the same, but it’s hard to hear the old songs sung so differently. I’m not saying they should do like Journey and get a guy that sounds exactly like Eric, because other bands have switched vocalists and did alright (Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Van Halen). But sorry… Kory just isn’t doing it for me. 😦
Time to spin my old albums…
Geez.
Over on Fark there’s a story about a man whose 900# bear was killed. Well, it’s not really his bear. It’s a wild bear that happened to live in the same area as the man, the man fed it and watched it over the years, and a hunter legally killed it during open season.
But the Fark comment thread is the interesting thing. It continues the meme of wondering why anti-gunners are so violent:
Jakevol2
2010-11-20 10:05:08 AMHere is another example of why gun owners should kill themselves. I have never heard a happy story that involved a gun.
Never heard a happy story that involved a gun? Go talk with the almost 60 of Tom Givens’ students that are still alive because they used a gun in defense of themselves and others. I’d say those are happy stories.
Click through to Jakevol2’s profile:
Bio:
If you own a gun, kill yourself.
If you smoke pot, kill yourself.
If your are a Republican, a conservative, a libertarian, or a teabagger, kill yourself
If you didn’t like Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World , kill yourself.
If you can’t obey the law, I hope the government kills you.
Wow. (your are?)
But hey… he didn’t read the article (hunter didn’t use a gun). And it’s obvious he’s just a troll. Really, better left ignored but you know… it’s fun to point out how the pot’s blacker than the kettle.
heh
What does it say about me tho, when I care more about watching and minding their gun handling/safety discipline than the action and the hot chick?
“Pilots are trusted partners who ensure the safety of millions of passengers flying every day,” said TSA Administrator John Pistole. He said putting pilots through a faster screening process would be a more efficient use of the agency’s resources.
[…]
Pilots have complained about possible health effects from radiation emitted by full-body scanners that produce a virtually naked image, and they said that pat-downs by security inspectors were demeaning. Passengers have lodged similar complaints, but the government is not changing the screening requirements for air travelers.
So what they’re saying is the citizenry is not to be trusted.
I really want to know. Who is the government serving here? They are supposed to bow to the will of the people, and it’s obvious what the will of the people want. They are not serving the citizenry.
Someone has become too big for their britches and needs to be put back in their place.
Jay wrote a good piece on the importance of scenario-based training.
I can somewhat understand why people don’t want to do Force-on-Force (FoF) training: the prospect is intimidating. Most of us want to avoid the fight. We want to avoid getting hurt. We really don’t want to deal with it. So why would we go and pretend to do it? I don’t want to get hurt. I don’t want the pain and the stress.
I totally understand.
There was a point in time where I didn’t want to do that stuff.
I got over it.
Let’s look at empty hand martial arts. Any martial art that just has you memorize a bunch of moves and “dance” with a partner? Well, there’s something to that yes, but if your goal is to learn how to defend yourself, you’ll never learn how. Having a partner that cooperates isn’t realistic, because your attacker certainly will not cooperate with you. That dojo isn’t going to have the pressure. It isn’t going to bring the pain. There won’t be the stress of time, the need to prevail, and yes… the lumps that will teach you lessons that no other means of teaching will make. And if you can participate in sport-based variants of the event? All the better.
Does a basketball player learn to play basketball by sitting on the court alone calmly shooting hoops? No, they have to get out there in the pressure of a game, with other people, and play.
So can you really learn self-defense by dancing in the air? Nope. It’s one reason I stopped my Kuk Sool training, because it was just cooperative dance and the organization perpetuated that notion (tho there were some within the org that wanted to do more realistic training). Can you learn how to use a gun in a pressure-filled situation of an attack by just sitting at the range and calmly and slowly shooting your gun at a paper target? Nope.
There’s something to these activities, and of course they are better than nothing. But they are close to nothing. If you want to learn how to do X, you have to do X. Yes you may have to work your way up to X, but so long as you work towards X then you’re good.
I understand that scenario training can be a scary notion at first, but there will be nothing more eye-opening and sobering, and nothing that will change your mindset and improve your chances of survival.
Apparently 12th grade public government education-based reading levels are down.
Students scored an average of 288 out of 500 points in reading comprehension, two points better than in 2005 level but four points below the 1992 average of 292, the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress said.
Thirty-eight percent of 12th graders scored at or above “proficient” in reading and 26 percent scored that well in math, said the report, known as the Nation’s Report Card.
“Today’s report suggests that high school seniors’ achievement in reading and math isn’t rising fast enough to prepare them to succeed in college and careers,” U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a statement.
And you know what their proposed solution is going to be: throw more money (i.e. your money, via taxes) at the problem. Because throwing more money at the problem all these years so far has of course produced these obviously positive results, so yes, let’s continue to do the same thing and expect different results. *sigh*
White and Asian and Pacific Islander students made gains in reading since 2005 but no racial, ethnic or gender group has shown significant changes in scores since 1992. Asian students scored an average of 298 points in reading in 2009, higher than any other group.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and make a guess as to why. It’s not because Asians have some sort of genetically-ethnic disposition to being smart. It’s because, culturally, Asians care about education. Asian parents get involved in the education system, get involved with their children, they set high standards for their children and expect them to live up to it.
The same would happen with any ethnic group — because ethnicity has nothing to do with education (but it sure makes for good funding justification and victim stories). It has to do with people caring.
I’d also argue it’s a failure of the government schooling system, because it’s a system that no longer cares about true education. It only cares about keeping itself alive. It needs to measure results, administer tests, use that as justification for more funding, lather, rinse, repeat. There’s no caring about actual education, only test scores and funding.
Just so happens that Arthur’s Hall just printed a nice article about “The Public Education Delusion: Why Centralized Education is not the ‘Foundation of Our Democracy’… Or is it?“. Excellent article.
Oldest has felt left out.
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