A few days ago, I came across what I believe to be a great comic strip dealing with defensive firearm training.
This strip tells you what most firearms instructors, coaches, or martial arts teachers will never tell you. There’s no magical formula, no mystical secrets, no special ninja techniques or skills that some TRAINING OR PROGRAM can instantly teach you. Personal Defensive firearm skills come from physical and effective neurological pathway development and by connecting those neurological skills to a stimulus response.
The first step is to develop an appropriate neurological pathway skill. When it comes to personal defensive training, let’s pick a skill to develop, let’s say a draw stroke. You should start by working each component of your draw stroke, as slowly and perfectly as possible. The more perfect repetitions you perform the better. What’s happening neurologically is that you are encoding the brain and the proprioceptors in the muscles to all fire in exactly the same way with each rep, over and over and over again. Oh my, proprioceptors! That was a 50-cent word that we need to define, don’t we? I’m not a doctor nor do I play one on TV, but basically proprioceptors are the sensory receptor which receives instructions from within the body, especially one that responds to muscle position and movement. Still confused? It’s a term for what is commonly called muscle memory.
Here’s what that means in lawmen’s terms. By building this coordination between your vision, muscle and proprioceptive awareness, you are conditioning the brain and body to engage the draw stroke perfectly, every time, when you experience a stimulus resulting in the start of the draw motion. This means, at faster speeds, your body will instantly and unconsciously follow this neurological path that you’ve developed for your draw.
When you watch firearms experts or top-level competitors draw and wonder how they can do what they do and at the speed at which it is done, you ask yourself, how did they do that? Here’s the precise answer. They’ve encoded this flow of vision, muscle and proprioceptor movements so deeply that their body doesn’t know of any other way to move, thus, producing their desired and amazing results. Now, given that some methods of engaging a defensive draw stroke are more effective than others, you need to learn the OPTIMAL draw stroke and encode it, rather than flicking your firearm out haphazardly. You also need to know “should I shoot or should I run” – this revolutionary training is being offered to the general public for the first time. This revolutionary training will sharpen your concealed carry instincts and much more. Understanding the importance of training and how your learning process functions, ACT Personal Defense will begin offering regular small blocks of instruction. If you give yourself the gift of weekly training and a few minutes every day to regular fun filled drills, you will begin to build and develop deeply focused neurological pathway skills. You will be giving yourself a huge skill boost as compared to those who only shoot at paper targets, even if they shoot weekly. Most concealed carriers have never even shot their firearm. They buy a gun and holster and never train with them. Yet they think that they are magically prepared for a real-life emergency. Even if you shoot every week, shooting at paper targets is not personal defensive firearm training. It may be fun but all you are doing is wasting time, effort, money and ammo. It isn’t reality! It’s not teaching you how to respond to someone pointing a gun at your head or is trying to kill you or your family members. Who stands still, straight up, while carefully aligning your sights and fires one or two shots? Then you lower your firearm looking to see where your shots hit the target. You accomplish all these target practice gun skills at a blazing speed of under 30 seconds. Now add the additional time it would have taken you to draw from concealment. But wait, you can’t practice your draw from concealment because the range won’t allow it. Do you know what you are training yourself to do? You are, in reality, training yourself to get shot. You are not practicing conditional awareness, your draw, firearm retention, location of multiple bad guys, your movements to concealment or cover, and a host of other real-world personal defense fundamentals. But even more important, you are not learning to protect your family. In other words, you are not training realistically and will only be hurting yourself by putting you, your family or friend in perilous danger. All because you don’t know how to use your firearm (Tools of the Trade) effectively.
Here’s ACT Personal Defensive’s training in a nutshell. The best way to develop your personal defense “in-ness” is to condition your brain and develop proper neurological pathway skills. You will be taught a skill set each week and dedicate several minutes a day to its further development. Following our training curriculum, you will build upon what we call the “Three Pillars of Training”. They are “Proper Mindset”, “Skills” and “Tools of the Trade”. Through weekly sessions, you’ll see visible and measurable evidence of growth in all three of these discipline areas. As an ACT Personal Defense student, you will receive proper instruction from an experienced Tactical (SWAT) officer. Your training log will show your individual progress, strengths and weaknesses. Furthermore, with the aid of your fellow students and experienced instructor your confidence will grow exponentially as you develop your personal defense and concealed carry fundamental skills.
The launch of this new training academy will be open to everyone who wants to take personal defense seriously. Each week we will work on skill development with other like-minded citizen defenders. You will develop new friends and a deeper appreciation for a true personal defensive mindset. Training like this could cost you $50 -$75 dollars a week for private lessons. How much is your life or the life of your family worth? To get this valuable training and the ability to save a life, most people would say it’s priceless.
We realize that you may not be able to afford $50 – $75 dollars every week to learn these valuable lifesaving skills. I know you are thinking, I’m not sure the training would be worth it even if I could afford the sessions. Well, only you can answer that question! So here is a life changing offer – I’m offering a 100% money back guarantee every week. If you don’t feel the training session was of any value to you DON’T PAY a thing that week. The session will be free, it will cost you absolutely nothing! How’s that for a guarantee! You don’t even have to return for the remaining classes. You don’t owe anything, period.
Your cost for this amazing opportunity is only $25.00 per week and you can take as many weekly classes as you like. We will begin to develop these personal defensive fundaments using real life scenarios, role play, laser training, videos and live fire sessions. The list of classes and subject matter are too exhaustive to list in this article. If you are interested give us a call or email us to discuss your involvement in this revolutionary training opportunity. This first series of Level one classes will be limited to six students in total and will last for 8 sessions. If you sign up for this training you will receive an extra bonus called “Concealed Carry Guide” a collection of 18 informative short articles that will aid you in your personal defense and concealed carry decisions. If you have any questions or would like additional information please contact us.
Train hard and be safe!