SCHEDULING TRAINING

Todd Louis Green, one of the brightest stars in the handgun training world today in my opinion, made this excellent point recently on his blog.

I totally agree with Todd.  I learned early that if you don’t read you can’t write, and if you don’t learn you can’t teach.  The person who thinks he has it nailed and will teach without continuing education has doomed himself – and his curriculum – to fossilization.  That’s why lawyers have CLE (continuing legal education) requirements annually, and docs have CME, and cops have mandatory in-service training.

Sometimes, though, the schedule gets in the way.  For me, February was a case in point. Pistol champ Mike Seeklander  ran a course tantalizingly close to me, but by the time it was announced I was committed to teach elsewhere.  By all accounts, the course was excellent – half of the people I shoot with regularly went, and loved it – but I was trapped in the front of a classroom in the frozen North.  I’m hoping to catch Seeklander’s program later this year.

February also saw one of the best training smorgasbords ever served to law-abiding armed citizens, Tom Givens’ Polite Society conference in Memphis.  I had been scheduled to teach for half a day and soak up learning from top people in the field for the rest of the Friday-Saturday-Sunday event.  Alas, I had to cancel because I was scheduled to appear at a trial which would encompass that Friday, and it would take me all day Saturday to drive to Memphis.  My teaching slot (and classroom slot) were quickly filled by others. The trial postponed at the last minute, too late to get into the seminar.  Significant Other and I went to a pistol match as a consolation prize.

I’ll be taking a solid week of training in March, long since locked into the schedule, and plan to make that one come Hell or high water.  I hope to wallow in new ideas like a shark in a feeding frenzy.

Just ‘cause I’m old enough to look like a fossil don’t mean I gotta be one.

Mike Seeklander coaches Terri Strayer on a weak hand shooting technique.

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