by admin | Feb 7, 2018 | Grant Cunningham, Incident Analysis, Members, Personal Safety, Prepping, reading list, Training Talk
What’s great about Wednesday, you ask? Why, the great articles on self defense and preparedness that I have for you, of course! Mr. Wilson and the car prowler Man sees teenager rifling through his car and goes out with his gun to confront said teenager....
by admin | Feb 5, 2018 | Grant Cunningham, Members, Training Talk
A popular concept taught in many defensive shooting courses (including mine) is movement off the line of attack. It’s variously referred to as “getting off the X” or “lateral movement”, and probably some other terms I’m not remembering, but the concept is pretty...
by admin | Jan 22, 2018 | Grant Cunningham, Information Security, Members, Other Defensive Tools, Personal Safety, Prepping, Training Talk
In both the self defense and prepping communities, people talk about preparing — training and equipping — for “the worst case scenario”. “We train for the worst case”, schools brag (and their students claim). What, actually, is the worst case? The mind runs wild If...
by admin | Jan 19, 2018 | Grant Cunningham, instructors, Members, Training Talk
Let’s be honest: There is a ton of really awful self defense training aimed at women. I’m not sure why that is, but I constantly see bad techniques, bad advice, and bad teaching methods pushed at women — and the offenders are both men and other women. It doesn’t need...
by admin | Jan 8, 2018 | Grant Cunningham, Members, Training Talk
If you saw this announcement earlier, we’ve changed the date to take advantage of the low airfares before Spring Break. When we checked airline tickets, we discovered that in the week before our original dates the prices dropped by more than half (in many...
by admin | Jan 5, 2018 | Grant Cunningham, Incident Analysis, Members, Training Talk
The first Training Talk episode of 2018 was like throwing a lit match into a dynamite factory: Should you use lethal force to protect your property? My special guest Aaron Israel of Fundamental Defense and I discussed a Christmas Eve incident where a man shot and...
