The concept of the “Mental Notecard” to help you prepare to react in a dynamic encounter or to a important stimulus has come up in a few recent podcasts and I wanted to write about it in more detail. As
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Developing mental notecards
Training Days – Less Analysis, Covering More Skills
Discussing a latest training regime. I’ve been approaching this season’s practice a little differently in that sessions are less structured, but more focused. I used to plan, write everything down and track and mull over times. Lately, I just pick
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Paul Carlson and I discuss ways to avoid training scars… from competition
Paul Carlson is the owner of the Safety Solutions Academy in North East Ohio and is the host of the podcast of the same name. The Safety Solutions Academy is a full service training company that offers services to armed
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This mistake could get you killed AFTER a self defense shooting
First… Watch this skit. Did you watch it? If not, I’ll wait… If so… What happened? I was whistling my way through the park when an armed bad guy (wearing the bad guy uniform) jumped out and demanded my wallet.
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What would be your strategy for the Smith & Wesson Indoor Nationals’ Stage 4
This week the IDPA Blog, Facebook, Twitter Stream… pretty much every IDPA Social Media Channel, has been posting the stage procedures to get the competitors and association members hyped up for the Smith & Wesson Indoor Nationals. Today they posted
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It is amazing what you can learn from a 5rd COF and a video camera
Friday I went to the range with the plan to work on a few skills for the upcoming Smith & Wesson IDPA Indoor Nationals, but as they say… “The best laid plans of mice and men often go astray” I
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Training Days | SIRT Pistol Practice
I’ll mix in a little note about what I’ve noticed about training with a SIRT Pistol in my training log session. Dry Fire with the SIRT Pistol: I’ve been working with Next Level Training’s SIRT Pistol a lot since getting
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Dot Torture Comedy
I haven’t done the dot torture drill before and since Ron did one last week, I thought I’d try it out. 49/50 at 3 yds which is fine; but, I cannot shoot WHO/SHO very well at all. I’ll be working
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