Are Cooper’s Rules Obsolete?
Article 039 – Jeff Cooper helped advance the firearms industry and make us all safer. Now it’s time to honor his legacy by moving past it.
What Instructors Don’t Know
Article 038 – A trainer’s objective is to put information into the student’s brain, so why do our training methods ignore how the brain works?
Fixing Problem Shooters: Part 5
Article 037 – Giving a remedial shooter new physical skills that work is important. However, it’s not the whole solution. You also need to make it so those new skills are the ones performed under stress.
Fixing Problem Shooters: Part 2
Article 034 – Think you need a lot of resources to train effectively? Think again.
The State of the Training Industry
Article 032 – Prepared remarks from our April 11 speech to the FBI Firearms Instructor Conference and the FBI National Academy.
Fixing Problem Shooters – Part 1
Article 031 – Applying brain-science research to remedial in-service training. First task? Don’t make them worse.
Do Something
Article 030 – Everybody wants to do something. Nobody wants to do the work to make that something effective.
Learned Helplessness
Article 028 – In gun culture and the firearms industry we often sell women short – negatively impacting their personal safety. We should be doing the opposite.
A Tale of Two Failures: Part 2
Article 027 – In the firearms training industry we use tests to measure student performance. We don’t do it very well.
A Tale of Two Failures: Part 1
Article 025 – Two ways the firearms and tactical training industry gets it fundamentally wrong.