And I think it went pretty good. The real secret is all 5 students have had some if not a lot of previous formal training in this and so they were pretty much just honing their skills with me being a guide.
This was supposed to be myself and another instructor. My friend the retired Marine D.I. but he had not shot in the last year because of neck surgery last March other than 50 rounds a couple of weeks ago and so he decided he wanted to be a student. Now there is the real challenge which we have discussed.... instructing students that are better than you... but then as I have determined that is what a coach is actually supposed to do. I was a little slow and not up to speed at first but did get into the groove after about an hour or so. The funny part was early in the day when I would start 'expanding on a subject' my two friends would be giving me hand signals to shut up, they want to go shoot... but as it got hotter and we would take a break and go back and sit under the tent they weren't nearly as eager to get back on the line.
The class consisted of our host, one of my best friends who owns 'the farm' which is his hunting land, he has attended the Front Sight 4 day class 7 times, (I only did it 5), my other friend the retired Marine who also attended Front Sight a number of times as well as went with me to the Sig Academy once, two 'regular' guys who both have attended this two day class before (taught by two LEO's last year) and another guy who is a retired LEO and attended Front Sight with us once and this class last year and also served on the Tallahassee SWAT team. The day before the class our host and my Marine buddy and I set up the firing range and built a shoot / no shoot house. Then most of the 2nd day was designed to be fun...serious.... still but fun... I don't think I ever posted one of the targets I designed for this.... if anyone wants to see it, I'll post a link to the you tube video I scratched together of the two days.... My Marine buddy's wife saw this target and told him, "you better shoot that b!@ch!".
This was supposed to be myself and another instructor. My friend the retired Marine D.I. but he had not shot in the last year because of neck surgery last March other than 50 rounds a couple of weeks ago and so he decided he wanted to be a student. Now there is the real challenge which we have discussed.... instructing students that are better than you... but then as I have determined that is what a coach is actually supposed to do. I was a little slow and not up to speed at first but did get into the groove after about an hour or so. The funny part was early in the day when I would start 'expanding on a subject' my two friends would be giving me hand signals to shut up, they want to go shoot... but as it got hotter and we would take a break and go back and sit under the tent they weren't nearly as eager to get back on the line.
The class consisted of our host, one of my best friends who owns 'the farm' which is his hunting land, he has attended the Front Sight 4 day class 7 times, (I only did it 5), my other friend the retired Marine who also attended Front Sight a number of times as well as went with me to the Sig Academy once, two 'regular' guys who both have attended this two day class before (taught by two LEO's last year) and another guy who is a retired LEO and attended Front Sight with us once and this class last year and also served on the Tallahassee SWAT team. The day before the class our host and my Marine buddy and I set up the firing range and built a shoot / no shoot house. Then most of the 2nd day was designed to be fun...serious.... still but fun... I don't think I ever posted one of the targets I designed for this.... if anyone wants to see it, I'll post a link to the you tube video I scratched together of the two days.... My Marine buddy's wife saw this target and told him, "you better shoot that b!@ch!".