Does Your Range Training Make Bad Shooters?
As we work with law enforcement agencies around the country, it has become increasingly obvious that much of what the industry has traditionally done on the range really needs to change.
The Quiet Professional Podcast
On The Quiet Professional podcast, Dustin talking about the human brain, building better basics and training.
Primary and Secondary Podcast
Podcast with Dustin and John Holschen. This is a long one! Lots of discussion about training design process, resource management and the integration of visual processing into shooting skills.
That Weems Guy Podcast
Podcast with Lee Weems, John Holschen, John Hearne, and Dustin. This one contains a lot of good discussion about training design impacts and the importance of visual processing, as well as John Holschen’s observations after using the NURO System in training for nearly a year.
What about seeing?
Article 063 – What about seeing? Competition and the proliferation of challenging shooting standards have helped solidify the physical mechanics of shooting. What about the visual and cognitive mechanics that matter more than shooting once we step off the range?
Police Skills Matter
Article 062 – Police Skills Matter: Inadequate skills result in tragic outcomes. Officers need tools and techniques that work, training that produces competence, and effective accountability structures that work before things go wrong on the street.
Why There’s No Off Ramp: Police Firearms Training Prevents De-escalation
Article 061 – Traditional training methods produce skills that are physically separated from the brain’s ability to process information and change behavior. This is no longer acceptable for armed professionals.
Podcast – The Squad Room with Garrett TeSlaa
Thank you to Garrett TeSlaa for giving Dustin the opportunity to come on the podcast and discuss training design, brain science, the fundamental failures of training, and more.
A New Reality for Cops
Article 059 – A New Reality for Cops: The public now expects officers to be competent in use of force.
Second Order Effects
Article 057: Second Order Effects: The Unintended Impacts of Qualification Structure. When looking at the establishment of standards and criteria for large organizations (and, particularly, for training academies) it is also important to look at the unintended effects of these requirements.