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The Art of Manliness on Concealed Carry Style

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The Art of Manliness writes about Concealed Carry Style issues.

The truth is, even if you aren’t into fashion, clothing style does matter when you carry concealed. TAOM’s article is a pretty good one that covers different modes and methods of carry, and issues involved in it. And yes, that even includes visiting your tailor.

The article isn’t perfect, and I have a couple bones to pick:

Longer barrels give you range and accuracy, and longer magazines give you more shots without reloading, but the reality for most of us is that neither of those is a huge consideration. Unless you’re in an active military or paramilitary kind of situation, you — hopefully — won’t ever need more than a shot or two, even in the very worst-case scenario. Most of the time you won’t even need that.

So when possible, err on the side of a smaller weapon and magazine for the sake of concealability and comfort. It’s one of those trade-offs where you have to know your own needs, but don’t just default to the biggest magazine and longest barrel available for your handgun of choice.

Hopefully we won’t ever need our guns, but the reason we have them is because we realize we might. And if we might, shouldn’t we be best prepared to meet the needs of that situation? Given much of what TAOM’s website content is about — being prepared for life’s situations — I was a little surprised to read this. I’ll just fade back to Tom Givens and his now 60 students that have been involved in armed confrontations, with the number of shots fired ranging from 1 to 11, average of 3.4. I think Karl Rehn‘s data is starting to show that 5 rounds (e.g. a snub revolver) might get you through something like 70%-ish of confrontations. But again… statistics are of little comfort when you’re the anomaly. Granted, there’s always a tradeoff somewhere in concealed carry, just weigh the factors carefully and remember that a carry gun is to be comforting, not comfortable.

Regarding inside-the-waistband (IWB) carry:

The downside is that it’s an expensive and a fairly uncomfortable option. You need the tailored trousers, the specific holster, and the willingness to stand and sit with a gun barrel pointed down your rear end.

If they think IWB is expensive, I’m really wondering what they are considering inexpensive options, because they consider OWB to be inexpensive. Are we talking Uncle Mike’s here? Please don’t. This is life-saving equipment. You shouldn’t be going “cheap” no matter what mode you opt to carry in. But cheap price and cheap quality don’t necessarily go hand-in-hand. You don’t need to spend hundreds on a hand-tooled custom-made leather holster, tho you can if you wish. Comp-Tac’s holsters run $50-$100 depending upon options. Similar for Blade Tech, Raven Concealment, Kolbeson Leatherworks, and other such quality holsters.

You don’t need tailored trousers, but then, maybe you do if all you wear are tailored suits. Basically you’d have to get a waist about 2″ larger than normal. Or if you really want to get fancy, consider layered waistbands with elastic. That is, from the outside everything looks fine and normal, but it’s actually got 2 “panels” of cloth that overlap probably somewhere above the front pocket but under the belt. Then there’s elastic around the waistband so the waist area can actually grow and shrink a bit. Some find this more comfortable and workable with the gun.

And gun barrel pointed at your rear end? First dude, there are worse options, like appendix carry, with the muzzle pointed at your femoral artery (and your junk). Second, every muzzle has to point somewhere. OWB still points down at your butt. Shoulder holsters point at the person behind you. There’s always going to be some sort of trade-off here, and pointed down is one of the less problematic options. But with a good holster, a good belt, and remembering to put the gun in the holster and leave it alone — no fiddling with it — it’s really not a problem. Guns don’t “just go off”, so having a “gun barrel pointed down your rear end” isn’t that big a deal… unless you think it makes your butt look big. And if a little gun makes your butt look big, you need to get to the gym and start squatting. 🙂

Minor nits in an otherwise good article.

What’s really great tho is seeing how this is further evidence of concealed carry’s acceptance into the mainstream. It’s not some taboo thing… now it’s something to discuss with your tailor.

KR Training September 2012 Newsletter

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The KR Training September 2012 newsletter is now available.

It fleshes out the remainder of the schedule for 2012. Note that with deer hunting season coming up, the schedule content changes slightly — a fantastic opportunity to get some force-on-force training in. If you care about personal defense but have never taking FoF classes, it’s worth considering participation in such a class to gain more hands-on application of skills, especially when it comes to mindset and dealing with the realities of a personal defense situation.

Hope to see you join us at the range!

AAR – Lone Star Medics, Medicine X EDC, Sep. 22-23 2012

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Medicine X EDC @ KR Training – FoF Scenario Setup

Some years ago my family and I were driving out of our subdivision and came upon a motorcycle accident. It must have happened a minute before we pulled onto the scene because there were two people down on the road, no police nor EMS, and a lot of people walking around on their mobile phones. I got out of the car to see what I could do to help, and I did… but at the time the most recent medical training I had was my old Boy Scout first aid work. Too long ago. I remembered enough to do some good, but realized how much I didn’t remember. It was sobering and motivated me to seek more medical training.

Lone Star Medics first came out to KR Training about 9 months ago (my AAR of their Dynamic First Aid is here). It was a good and eye-opening time, especially since I got to see how much I forgot and how much had changed in the “first aid” world during my learning gap.

When I learned LSM was coming back, I immediately signed up for the course. But this course was different. This course is Medicine X EDC.

Medicine X EDC

Based upon LSM’s Medicine X course, Medicine X EDC is just that – Every Day Carry. From LSM’s website:

This two-day course was developed for those that wanted to learn how to identify and treat life-threatening injuries in a gunfight; but from a civilian concealed carry perspective. If you’ve taken “Medicine X” before you’ve learned how to work from your chest rig, plate carrier, body armor, etc. Well, what about when you’re not wearing all that kit? How do you carry the contents of an IFAK without the pouch? How do we “run & gun” while in jeans and a T-shirt?

While a fair bit of the material overlaps the Dynamic First Aid course I previously took, it’s not the same sort of course. Yes some things are going to be the same, because bleeding is bleeding and a tourniquet is your first line of defense at stopping external bleeding. But there is NO harm in getting this information again because 1. maybe something changed between the last time you took a course and now (it was constantly evident that medical best practices can and do change often) 2. reinforcement through repetition is always going to help foster learning. But what really sets this course apart is the context and application.

I think Karl said it best, that a course like this really presents the full reality of what an armed-citizen confrontation can be like. So many of the classes just focus on shooting and shooting skills. Some might go further and talk about legal or present some deeper scenarios on force, but again that’s where it ends. What if your spouse was with you and got hurt? What then? Is there any addressing of that situation? Are you prepared to handle that? You carry a gun because you acknowledge the police can’t be here to help you and that at best it’ll take them 5-10 minutes to show up… the same holds for EMS. Thus, this class and the scenarios presented really help to take you through a more complete cycle that could be present in a self-defense situation.

Note that while the class was presented in a defensive shooting context, the skills hold regardless of situation. Maybe Uncle Ted got hurt while deer hunting. Maybe there was a car wreck. Bleeding is bleeding. The need to extract someone and care for someone buying them seconds until medics arrive, that’s going to hold.

Course Content

LSM Instructor Caleb Causey watches Brian Brown patching up “Rescue Randy” while an injured Paul Martin watches for bad guys.

The course was a mixture of classroom and field time. A concept would be presented in the classroom, then we’d head outside to apply it. Sometimes it might just be running through some practical drills. For example, carries and drags was just us breaking into small groups and hauling each other around, practicing the skill. Other times, it was onto the range to put things into a greater context.

Yes we did a mixture of live fire shooting and medical application. Shooting courses, however, weren’t everyone getting up on the line and shooting. Instead, everyone was some sort of a scenario. Barrels, barricades, benches would be placed. Photo-realistic targets erected, and yes lots of “no-shoots” present. And then… there was “Rescue Randy”, a full-sized heavy training dummy that we’d have to haul around. Plus, safer to have Randy downrange than anyone else. 🙂  You’d be given basic instructions, then “Gun!” and away you went. You would have to shoot through the course. Caleb would be watching and giving instructions — and throwing curve-balls. Let’s say you forgot to get behind cover, Caleb might call out that your right arm just got shot and is now out of commission. You’d have to then apply first aid to yourself, then continue with the scenario. Most would end with you applying the medical knowledge just taught… all under Caleb’s watchful eye.

Everything builds upon prior knowledge. A skill is learned, then applied in a simple scenario. Another skill is learned, then the scenario gets more difficult. The scenario may be a solo, then a pair, then a 4-man team. We even did some stuff back in the woods at the KR Training facility (that was pretty cool). Everything jacks up the pressure, jacks up the chaos and intensity. Why? Because that’s how it’s going to be. You’re going to need to perform. And here? You’re going to make mistakes, but that’s how it goes… you come to learn.

We culminated with a force-on-force scenario, using Airsoft and replicating a recent real-life situation. It put everything together and really forced you to have to think outside the box and your comfort zone. Solid stuff.

My Take-Home

There’s a lot of take-home for me: gun stuff, instructor stuff, and medical stuff.

Gun Stuff

This is pretty simple, and actually, not much to focus on.

You see, while shooting is a part of the course, it’s not the emphasis of the course. I don’t know how many rounds I shot, but certainly under 100… maybe even under 50. There’s some minor instruction on gun stuff, but really, you’re expected to know how to shoot and how to handle defensive shooting skills in a private citizen concealed carry context. Don’t look at this as a bad thing tho, because well… there’s lots of courses out there that work on the shooting side of things; you come to this class to learn how to do field medicine.

That said, under all the pressure of the day, I certainly found some things lacking.

The biggest take-home for me was realizing how in all the dry fire practice I’ve been doing, I’ve been focusing too much on basic skill work and not on “defensive shooting” skills. That is, I’m working on the draw, or the press out, but not on things like remembering to top off my magazine before reholstering. I got better at this as I went along, but still was omitting something or other.

I also kept seeing my trigger-slap problem resurfacing. *sigh* There was one point where I had forgotten to “get off the X” and was treating wounds “on the X”. Naturally, Caleb kept calling “contact front!” on me and I’d have to keep engaging. I recall him telling me I need to hit the guy… and I can only assume I was going “low left” from trigger slap. I slowed down, smooth press, heard Caleb say he was neutralized, I continued on. *sigh*

So in terms of gun stuff, my take-home was a few things:

  1. Work on my full defensive response, not just fundamental skills. But of course, make sure those fundamental skills are being worked as I go along. As well, don’t be afraid to work some medical skills and other “post-shooting” skills in (e.g. dialing 911, police contact, etc.).
  2. Continue to work on my trigger slap.
  3. Get more exposure to more weapons systems. You never know what you might have to pick up off the ground to stay in the fight.

Instructor Stuff

Caleb throws Brian a curve-ball and has Paul go unconscious — two patients for Brian.

I can’t help it. I watch other people teach so I can learn how I can improve my teaching.

I have to give Caleb a lot of credit — he’s a great teacher. He’s just got a knack for it. It’s lots of little things in terms of his presentation, his patience, his willingness to listen and give students the attention they require.

I kept finding myself falling back to my recent re-reading of How to Win Friends and Influence People, and it just seemed like Caleb knew that book and applied it. I forgot to ask him if he actually was applying techniques from the book or if it was just his natural knack, but either way, he’s really got something that separates someone that knows material from someone that can teach it. And so, it just gave me some little bits of things to try to do here and there to make myself a better instructor.

One specific item is in doing scenario work. I found myself doing the wrong thing at one point. I had started to do one thing, then Caleb said something and I started to respond to what he said. The problem? My brain processed what Caleb said as a “hint hint… you should be doing this”, and so I started doing that, but it was completely the wrong thing to do. It’s totally my fault, I should have done what I knew was the right thing to do, but brain is in monkey-mode and you often just do what you’re told instead of thinking. That’s the whole point of the exercise, and it tells me some things about how I, as an instructor, have to be aware of what I say during scenarios. My phrasing and timing, vocal intonation, word choice, it can and will mess with people. Sometimes that will be the desired effect, other times it should not. I must be judicious and mindful of what I say in terms of providing scenario details vs. “hints” about what to do to ensure I draw out the desired training lesson.

Medical Stuff

Here’s the real meat of it all.

First, it was great to get the direct medical knowledge: scene safety, carries and drags, tourniquets, patient assessment, pressure bandages, wound packing, burns, chest injuries, shock, equipment selection, talk/communication with your team or your downed buddy, etc..  All that was good stuff.

Some bigger take-homes for me?

Get off the X

This is quite consistent with what we teach in the gun-side of things: it’s better to not get shot than it is to shoot.

During the first scenario, I start to drag Randy when Caleb makes a big point about how heavy Randy is bleeding. My brain says to start applying tourniquet, and as such Caleb has me constantly getting receiving incoming fire. Eventually I get the hint and pull Randy behind cover and begin treatment. After my scene was done, Caleb made the point something to the effect that it doesn’t matter if he’s cut in half and bleeding a gusher, get off the X. Yes, sometimes you MIGHT have to treat on the X, but it’s certainly not your default mode because while he might be bleeding badly here, it’s only risking being worse out there.

Tourniquet

Tourniquet is the go-to for external bleeding. It will work. It’s the fastest thing to apply. In one scenario there was “only a little bleeding” so my brain thought to go for a pressure bandage. After I spent too much time trying to get it out of the package, you realize how a tourniquet would have been on and done with before you even got the bandage out of the bag.

Equipment only matters if you have it (on you)

Why do we carry guns on our person? Because when we need it, we need it right now and really badly. We know we won’t have time to go back into the house or to the car to get the gun, because the scene will unfold in seconds.

Why would a medical situation be any different?

Can you really go run to your car and get what you need, when it only takes a matter of seconds or short minutes to bleed out?

So what can you carry on your person?

Caleb has a good solution in terms of an ankle rig, but I don’t think that works for me because I just can’t wear long pants all year round. But I reckon I can find a way to carry a tourniquet on my belt (find a good pouch), which is better than nothing. I’m also formulating what to keep as a minimal bag in ways that I can carry a bit more gear, like in the bag I take to and from work every day. Yes, I should have picked up this gear back in January, but I feel more comfortable now with the gear and in knowing what to get and apply. And let me just say Combat Gauze is wicked expensive!

Have a Plan

You have to have a plan — and a clear cut, fully thought out plan — before you dive in. If you’re behind cover, make sure you know precisely what you will do, how you will do it, and where you’re going. For example, in the 4-man team scenario, while behind cover we should have planned out precisely who was to pick up Randy, who was to cover, how the pick-up people should have picked up and dragged Randy, where to drag him to, everything. We had some things figured out, but not all things. Chaos ensued.

Granted your plan may not pan out because a new circumstance may arise. But then it’s easier to reformulate and modify vs. having no plan at all. Plus, your plan may be able to be executed completely, which is a far lot better than having had no plan at all.

Conclusion

It was a hard weekend. Tired. Draining. Sobering because it was full of hard lessons.

I’m so glad I went through it.

This may be hard, but lacking this knowledge and finding myself wanting it while the flag is flying? That’s harder. I will always come back to that motorcycle accident and how I felt when I realized how much I had forgotten. I will always think how much better I could have handled the situation if my knowledge was fresh, if I had better equipment.

Would I take this again? Certainly. Will I encourage others to take this course? I hope if you’ve read this far you’ve been convinced of the importance of such training. Should you take it with Lone Star Medics? Why certainly. Caleb admits he’s not the only source of such knowledge and, like any good instructor, encourages us to seek out training from a wide variety of instructors. I will say if you have no training you should at least get some basic first aid — the boo-boo and bee-sting sort of stuff, because those incidents are quite common. I will say you should then go further and learn about these matters, especially if you carry a gun. I highly recommend Lone Star Medics, not just for their knowledge, but the quality of instruction and the unique approach to teaching and learning.

Big thanx to Caleb and his crew for coming out and putting on a great weekend, and to Karl for bringing Caleb back. Do look for LSM to be back on the KR Training schedule.

Paul Martin was another student in the class. Read his write-up of the weekend.

Big thanx to Brian Brown for sharing pictures he took.

APD supportive of personal defense?

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“You need to protect yourself. If your life is in danger and you have access to a weapon, defend yourself,” said Cpl. Anthony Hipolito, Austin Police Department.

Full story. (h/t Paul)

Doesn’t seem to be an official statement of policy from APD, but it’s welcome to hear. It stands somewhat in contrast to the words of APD Chief, Art Acevedo, who comes across as unsupportive of citizens being enabled to defend themselves.

But it’s not necessarily surprising. All too often the Chief’s are more interested in politics, and it’s the men and women actually on the street who know and understand.

Maybe I need some “damp” fire

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I’m taking a small break from the dry fire routine.

I need to fall back and regroup. While following TLG’s sample routine is certainly a good starting template, I have been thinking it’s time to adjust it more to address my specific needs.

I’m also bothered by my performance this past Saturday. Something isn’t clicking, something isn’t happening between live fire and dry fire. I don’t know. But I can say, I’ve got a trigger slapping problem. Maybe I just need a lot more live fire, putting holes in paper, and seeing what happens. That is, do more of my diagnostics in live fire. I do think that’s part of my problem… let live fire tell me what to work on, then work on it in dry. I just need a lot more live…and I need time for that. *sigh*

But I might have a possible solution.

“Damp” fire. 🙂  Or at least, that’s what I’m calling it.

It’s not live fire, but it’s not dry fire either. Basically, it’s getting an Airsoft gun and working with that. My hope is it will be close enough to my real rig and I’ll get the active feedback of a hole in paper to see what I’m doing wrong. I mean, I’ve been thinking how a lot of ball-and-dummy drill is in my future, but that means I need real live fire, which is not always possible for me. But I can do Airsoft at home, and that can be better than nothing. Or so I hope.

It may not solve my problems, but it might. We’ll see. What’s the harm. Plus then I’ll have an Airsoft gun to use in FoF scenarios. 🙂

I have purchased an M&P replica. This one is CO2-powered, which I’m OK with. Supposedly can get 200-250 shots per cartridge. Supposed to be metal and have a good heft. All signs point to being a reasonable attempt at replicating my carry rig, tho we’ll see how the trigger is by comparison.

It’s been shipped and is on its way. Hopefully will be here before the weekend. I’ll report back on it later.

2012-09-15 live fire practice

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Following TLG’s sample dry fire routine.

The routine allows for substitution of live fire for dry fire, so my “week 1 day 5” was replaced with some live fire.

I was assisting at KR Training, so I didn’t get to do much formal, but I did a few things.

Let’s just say I stunk up the joint.

*sigh*

Well, I’ll break down some things.

Before DPS1 we do a pre-test with some reactive targets. I was going to demonstrate something to a student. No prep, no forethought that I was going to do this, it just happened as the course of conversation went to say “this is what you do”, and I just drew, 1 shot on target 1, 1 shot on target 2, both reactives fell over, and that was that. There was no thought, no nothing, cold, nailed it in short order.

That made me quite happy. Of course that’s what I should do, but what got me about it was hitting it cold, no thought, no prep, no nothing. Very happy with that.

But later on, there’s this “hostage” target Karl has, where it looks like a large steel IDPA/IPSC-shaped no-shoot with a small flapper just over the shoulder… probably 4-6″ (one of these days I need to measure precisely how much is exposed). It was probably 20 yards from me. I went through 3 magazines: 1 2H, 1 SHO, 1 WHO. I thought I was doing OK because I kept listening for the distinctive “flap” sound it makes when you hit it. Then Hogel comes up and asked who shot up the no-shoot — “because I just painted it”. *sigh* Looks like it was me, having a bunch of “near target hits”, or rather, unacceptable hits on the hostage. *sigh* Looks like the flapper activated either from splatter or impact vibration. *sigh*  I was most upset with that, thinking I was doing well, but I wasn’t.

On some other steel work, I was hitting poorly. I could tell what it was: trigger slapping, plain and simple.

The bad part was, I just didn’t have enough time to shoot on my own to really work and try to diagnose the problem. To shoot as I have in dry fire. There’s still a disconnect in my head somewhere. I need to figure some things out, collect my thoughts, then go talk with Karl.

AAR – KR Training – BP2 & DPS1 – 15 Sep 2012

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A fine day at KR Training. Basic Pistol 2 in the morning, Defensive Pistol Skills 1 in the afternoon.

Rain was predicted, and we saw none of it. Some darker clouds would roll in and out during the morning, but no rain. In fact, a lot of sun by afternoon — I’m sunburned. I didn’t put on sunscreen expecting to be under a raincoat all day, since the forecast was saying the rain chances would pick up in the afternoon. Silly me for believing the weatherman. 🙂

Since Tom and I will be teaching these classes sans Karl in October, we did a lot of the teaching this time around to help get our heads more aligned towards running things vs. just assisting. My personal take-home there is we need to keep moving, mind the clock and our pacing, and remember that we don’t need to dump every bit of information on the students at this time. They have enough to swallow, enough pressure, enough nerves… get them to focus on the basics, to lay the groundwork even if we have to leave out details, even if we have to kinda allow some things to be learned “wrong” and re-/un-learned later on.

Case in point, reloads. At this point, we just need them to reload their gun. Officially we don’t teach reloads until Defensive Pistol Skills 2, but reloads do happen and we just want them to remember if the gun is dry, get it running again. That’s the key. Some important points like the basics of how to reload are important, like proper positioning of the magazine in the pouch, use of the “shooters workbench”, looking at the magwell, and so on. But there’s so many other things that CAN be involved in reloads, but honestly, they’re not important right now. Again, only so much time, so much information overload already for students, and they likely won’t remember this minutia anyways so just focus on the gross effort, skills, and mindset changes for now. And then, that keeps the class better on track.

It’s just tough… we love what we do, we just want to share that information. We want to enlighten as much as possible and have no vested interest in withholding information. It’s not like we’re some secret martial art society that withholds the true art until you’ve paid thousands of dollars and invested 20 years of your life. We want you to have knowledge… we just have to sometimes remember a steady drip is better than a flood. 🙂

Otherwise, a fantastic day.

Classes were full.

Basic Pistol 2 was majority women.

Defensive Pistol Skills 1 had about 1/4 women, which is good for such a class. I have been seeing a small increase in female enrollment in the intermediate-level classes, and I’m happy to see that. I hope to see a continued rise in such enrollment.

Lots of returning students too. Thank you all for that complement and believing in us.

 

You won’t melt from this unique training opportunity

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It’s been about a month and a half since we’ve seen any rain here in Central Texas. Of course, that happened during the hottest part of the year… so intense heat and no rain really compounded our drought situation.

But the weather is breaking. The heat is going away, and yesterday it started raining. As far as I can tell, it’s been raining all night. This morning has a nice steady shower. This is the sort of rain we need, so the hard ground can soften up and soak in the rain instead of it all running off. Looking at the landscaping I can tell everything is perking up, both flora and fauna.

The cool part — apart from the drastically lower temperatures — is the rain is predicted to keep up through the weekend. Just what we need.

But it’s not just what we need ecologically.

It presents a unique training opportunity.

As per usual, we’ve got classes at KR Training this weekend. Whenever weather issues coincide with classes, Karl is proactive in sending out email to all enrolled students to discuss how we’ll proceed. Sometimes we have to consider cancellation or postponement because the weather is going to be severe and detrimental to learning and safety. But this is rare, and usually class can proceed, tho with minor changes to the program. We’ve done this many times before and are able to reasonably adjust the layout to cope with weather (e.g. some drills we will do inside with dry fire; many times this actually yields better end-results!).

But as per usual, once this email goes out, the student cancellations also start to roll in.

On the one hand, I understand. There was a time in my life where I refused to get wet or get dirty and just didn’t have the right mindset in me.

On the other hand, I’ve grown and changed and realized that such a training opportunity is a blessing.

The bad guys aren’t going to wait until it’s sunny and pleasant out to attack you. No, shit can and does happen at any time under any circumstances. It’s wise to train under different circumstances and settings so these things don’t affect you, or perhaps you can learn how these situations affect you. Better to learn in practice (when you can afford mistakes and a learning opportunity) than to be forced to learn when the flag is flying. For example, while I prefer to do my dry fire practice in the morning, when I do it at night I can see how tired my eyes are and that changes things for me. I’ve read about many top competitors that vary up their practice schedule because major (national, world) matches go forward rain or shine, so you better be used to shooting in the rain, in the mud, in the wind, in less than ideal circumstances, if you want to win.

If you don’t train in discomforting situations, those situations will never become comfortable. How do you think that fares for you ability to perform in the face of whatever gets thrown your way?

If you only do the things you like, if you only work under ideal circumstances, then you are leaving large gaps in your training, education, knowledge, and ability.

Yes, I won’t train at the Austin Rifle Club in the rain because they’re in a flood plain and rain means flooding and true (avoidable) danger. But the worst that happens at the KR Training facility is a little mud.

You won’t melt.

Rain isn’t a training artifact we can conjure up. It comes when it comes, and so when opportunity knocks you ought to take it. You may learn something you couldn’t learn any other way.

2012-07-19 Dry Fire Practice

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Following the TLG 4-week sample dry fire routine.

Week 1, Day 4

Basic routine

  1. 20 reps of Wall Drill, from extension 2H
  2. 5 reps of Wall Drill from extension, SHO
  3. 5 reps of Wall Drill from extension, WHO
  4. 20 reps of Wall Drill from press-out, 2H
  5. 5 reps of Wall Drill from press-out, SHO
  6. 5 reps of Wall Drill from press-out, WHO

Trying to get my groove back regarding practice sessions.

Trying to focus on picking up speed, but again, not necessarily by going faster, but by ensuring no time is wasted. Press out and press trigger with less time wasted in doing both… so the time between “start” and “click” is used as wisely as possible.