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Self defense training

I used to think I did pretty good practicing on my own until I got a chance to attend a professionally instructed class. I wasn’t 5 minutes into the class before I realized how much I didn’t know. It wasn’t until I got some hands on competent professional training that I realized how many areas I was completely over looking. Once I started getting some regular training and corrective criticisms my skill level increased exponentially.

Training also gives me the opportunity to try out my equipment the way I really wear it under stress. I've had a couple of equipment failures on the range during a training class that I'm pretty sure would have had a pretty serious negative outcome if they'd happened during a real self defense encounter.
 
Professional training for personal safety, marksmanship, and frequent practice is important but, training on the legal aspects of using deadly force is equally important to me. At a minimum, I attend two or more trainings on the law annually as there's always some new laws to incorporate in order to avoid legal and financial disaster. These trainings are free to me as a US Law Shield member. Other organizations of the same type also offer these trainings, either free or at low cost. Just my opinion.
 
Took a lot of classes back in the oughts and early 2010’s…stopped when my hip started slowing me down (didn’t want to be the guy that held everything up because of physical limitations). Did take a couple, though, one-on-one during that time, with trainers that would help me work through my limitations (for example, if I was down, there weren’t no getting up fast; learn to fight on your back).

One of the best classes I ever took involved “unsighted” fire; that is, you don’t look at your sights. In fact, the instructor had a few pistols (1911, M&P, and a Glock) that had the sights removed…and by the end of the class, you’d be hitting 6” steel at 25yds with them. Thought process behind it? When adrenaline dumps, you look at your assailant, not at your sights. Make it work for you…also, you might not be able to bring that gun up to eye-level…so let’s learn some hip shooting.

I can still usually hit a silhouette in the A/B zone at 25yds from quarter hip; I still practice that a few times a year. It really is kinda fun.

Took some really crappy classes, too…but you can always learn from them as well. Sometimes, it’s “Well, I’m not gonna do THAT”…only has one class I walked out of, where the instructor walked down to the targets, stood between two of them, and instructed two students to shoot the silhouettes “so he could get a warrior mindset”…said by the end of class, we could do it, too.

F that; I packed up and left, tut suite.
 
HansGruber said:
One of the best classes I ever took involved “unsighted” fire; that is, you don’t look at your sights. In fact, the instructor had a few pistols (1911, M&P, and a Glock) that had the sights removed…and by the end of the class, you’d be hitting 6” steel at 25yds with them. Thought process behind it? When adrenaline dumps, you look at your assailant, not at your sights. Make it work for you…also, you might not be able to bring that gun up to eye-level…so let’s learn some hip shooting.
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The last few classes I went to I've asked to do some of that too, and all the tacticool whined, complained and failed miserably at it, even at 3 yards! It is absolutely useful, no doubt about that
 
HayesGreener said:
At last count I have attended more than 15 firearms instructor courses in my lifetime. I learned something new and useful in every course, you can never get enough training. Training is a lifelong process.
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Same here. I’ve done and continue to do a boat load of training classes because I like the trigger time and even in a mediocre class I always take away something useful.
 
With handguns I was fortunate in my first firearms training was from Vietnam vets in the USAF on Wheelguns lots of diagnostic stuff.
Them an agency in Arkansas again lots of solid vets (this was a time when NRA bumper stickers were common in Police parking lots)

Then I went to a different agency instructor class almost 15 years later with the Feds not so much diagnostic as it was how to be a safety monitor and test administrator!

I got much more specialized instructor and training in general when I did some agency SWAT stuff

However the best training I have had was when I on my own went to several Classes with Dave Spaulding, Lee Weems, John Hearne, Darryl Bolke and Bryan Eastridge and did the Rangemaster Basic and Advance Instructor development course.

The general gun enthusiast has no clue how much they would get out of courses like that or any training by Gunsite, Rangemaster or Tactical Defensive Instituenin Ohio or etc level instructors that do their own trainjng.
 
Even though I'm an instructor myself I still attend training classes as a matter of fact this Thursday night I'm going to a class called Practical Skills Builder. Never too old to learn and like mentioned above sometimes I learn something new plus as also mentioned above I like the trigger time also.
 
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