Effective Instructor: "Combat" Experience Required?

[iChokePeople]

Depends on how you define professional trainers, but yes.

It also depends on the time frame. I have some good friends who pushed a sentiment similar to that for a long time and generally denigrated competition shooting and those who do it, partly because their mentor did. I don't hear as much about it anymore.

Competitive shooters dress funny. No fashion sense.

 

[rhino]

Competitive shooters dress funny. No fashion sense.

It's true.

I don't because I'm so bad at the sports that they won't let me wear a uniform.

 

[Streck-Fu]

Competitive shooters dress funny. No fashion sense.

Outlier counterpoint:

 

[iChokePeople]

Outlier counterpoint:

I have nothing to add, just want that pic to be here twice.

 

[turnandshoot4]

I trained with Mac. He is intense.

He also had a 6'4 350 guy doing 200 yards of sprints. It was intense.

 

[rhino]

I trained with Mac. He is intense.

He also had a 6'4 350 guy doing 200 yards of sprints. It was intense.

Yeah, I'm not going to do that.

 

[Streck-Fu]

I had to dig up where I saw this...seems to fit into the thread. LAV posted this to Soldier Systems recently....


“It takes years to become a professional but only ten minutes to dress like one”

- SGM (ret) Craig Maxim

 

[Streck-Fu]

I trained with Mac. He is intense.

He also had a 6'4 350 guy doing 200 yards of sprints. It was intense.

Was that his Combat Strrength course? We did not do that in TAPS.

 

[turnandshoot4]

Was that his Combat Strrength course? We did not do that in TAPS.

I took TAPS in WI in '12

It was "light the fuse." That was the second thing we did on the first day. No one was ready for it that is for sure.

 

[Streck-Fu]

Ha. Sucks to be you. The host range in Maryville, must not have been big enough. I went in May '12.....

He will be teaching in Bloomington, IN in Dec this year and I'm thinking of attending as a refresher.

 

[cedartop]

I took TAPS in WI in '12

It was "light the fuse." That was the second thing we did on the first day. No one was ready for it that is for sure.

Yep we did it last year as well. I got lucky almost everyone else in the class was from a SWAT team and were all kitted out. I was running slick. Most of them started dumping gear shortly thereafter.

 

[Jackson]

Yep we did it last year as well. I got lucky almost everyone else in the class was from a SWAT team and were all kitted out. I was running slick. Most of them started dumping gear shortly thereafter.

Those pansies should train how they work. If they are kicking doors in full kit, they should run the course in all their cool-guy gear. (Kidding, I'm so out of shape I probably couldn't do it naked.)

 

[turnandshoot4]

Ha. Sucks to be you. The host range in Maryville, must not have been big enough. I went in May '12.....

He will be teaching in Bloomington, IN in Dec this year and I'm thinking of attending as a refresher.

I was in Racine, WI. The range was so sloppy footing was a problem during the run.

 

[iChokePeople]

Those pansies should train how they work. If they are kicking doors in full kit, they should run the course in all their cool-guy gear. (Kidding, I'm so out of shape I probably couldn't do it naked.)

I think you'd be surprised by what you could do with a bunch of horny SWAT guys and Pat McNamara chasing you, yelling "GET SOME!"

 

[Jackson]

I think you'd be surprised by what you could do with a bunch of horny SWAT guys and Pat McNamara chasing you, yelling "GET SOME!"

Sometimes you want to get caught...

 

[iChokePeople]

Sometimes you want to get caught...

Grr. Not starting at the TIME I wanted. Skip to about 0:52.

[video=youtube;2OKwRsnWO84]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=2OKwRsnWO84#t=52[/video]

 

[rhino]

Okay, that might motivate me to run.

 

[iChokePeople]

Okay, that might motivate me to run.

I thought it might, but I don't think you'd catch Jackson before those SWAT guys had their way with him.

 

[iChokePeople]

I find myself wondering if it was the thought of Jackson doing this drill naked that killed this thread.

 

[Jackson]

I find myself wondering if it was the thought of Jackson doing this drill naked that killed this thread.

Strange. It usually draws quite an audience.