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A shipment of Safariland 6390 holsters landed!

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Greybeard Actual

I love teaching because I love training. I’ve spent a lot of time and effort learning how to construct my own training for maximum efficiency. Now I enjoy passing along those hard earned lessons to others. Come to a class and learn the best ways to train and shortcut your learning curve. Our course offerings are filling rapidly, both for open enrollment and LE-only, so don’t wait if you want to attend one of our classes. You can see the current class schedule on our website at the link in my bio. If you’d like to bring us to your area for an open enrollment class, or set up training for your unit or agency, contact Angela at [email protected].

New Blog Post: “The Medium and the Message”

“The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.” - Bruce Lee

The medium and the message. I see these get confused all the time. I’ve seen it in the martial arts world almost my entire life. It’s the primary failing of traditional martial artists. There is much of value in arts like karate, judo, and aikido. But almost universally the proponents of these arts confuse the training drills with the fight. Instead of internalizing the message being transmitted they adopt the medium being used to transmit that message as literal truth.

Thanks to my decades as an active cop on the streets of Chicago, I’ve been in countless physical altercations, and the lessons I learned from those traditional arts stood me in good stead in all of them, but not one of them looked exactly like the formal and stylized drills I had trained.

The same is true in the tactical world. I’ve been in gunfights overseas and at home, and the skills I gained on the flat range and in the shoot house served me well. But they served me well because I adapted those skills to the situation at hand, not because the drills that built the skills looked like the gunfights.

When people lack real world experience, this issue compounds. Over time the training gets more and more contrived and artificial. Eventually the medium becomes so corrupted that the message is lost, and the training loses its value. Even with real-world experience, without intense and objective analysis, affectation can still creep in to training and impair its effectiveness.

Even the best training is still to some degree artificial. It’s designed to create skill, and will do so. But it’s not the same as the actual fight, and cannot be. No fight looks like a kata. Conflict is chaotic, and the opponent gets a vote about how it unfolds. If you confuse the medium of the drills with the message they contain, you will be rigid and dogmatic instead of fluid and adaptable. Your techniques and tactics flow from your training and experience, they aren’t constrained by them.

We are hitting the ground running for 2022. Come to a class and learn how to maximize your training for skill improvement. See you on the range! Register at: GreyBeardActual.com
2022 Class Schedule:
Jan 4-5 AGENCY Vehicle, GA
Feb 28-Mar 1 TTPOA Region 2, Houston, TX – Pistol/Carbine Skill Development
Mar 12-13 Alpha Range, McHenry, IL - Pistol Skill Development
March 17/18 TTPOA Region 1 , Round Rock, TX - Pistol Skill Development
Apr 9-10 PSTC, Clackamas County, OR – Pistol Skill Development
April 30-May 1 Defense Midwest Range, Wamego, KS - Pistol/Carbine Skill Development
May 3-8 TTPOA SWAT Conference, Round Rock, TX
May 21-22 Range 88, Bedford, IN - Pistol Skill Development
May 26-27 TTPOA Region 7, Forney, TX – Vehicle Engagements
Jun 4-5 C4 Shooting & Training Center, Madison, OH -Carbine Skill Development
June 6-10 OTOA Conference, OH
Jun 25-26 The Farm Training Center, Fairfield, UT - Pistol Skill Development
July 23-24 Aurora Sportsmen’s Club, Aurora, IL - Pistol/Carbine Skill Development
Aug 5 ModTac, Elizabeth, CO – LE ONLY Pistol Skill Application
Aug 6-7 ModTac, Elizabeth, CO –Pistol Skill Development
Aug 27-28 Aurora Sportsmen’s Club, Aurora, IL – Vehicle Engagements
Nov 3-4 TTPOA Region 7, Rockwall, TX - Pistol/Carbine Skill Development
Nov 12-13 Temple Gun Club, Temple, TX - Pistol/Carbine Skill Development
Nov 15-16 TTPOA Region 1 , Round Rock, TX - Pistol Skill Development
Nov 17-18 TTPOA Region 1 , Round Rock, TX - Carbine Skill Development

First day of Pistol Skill Development today. This is our first local open enrollment class here in Texas, and I couldn’t have asked for a better day with a better group of shooters. Looking forward to day two tomorrow.

The Blake Drill The Blake Drill is THE classic drill for speeding up your target transitions.