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 4
Article 036 – If you want to fix a truly remedial shooter, you probably need to help them build an altogether new skillset. In order to pull this off, context matters.
Fixing Problem Shooters: Part 3
Article 035 – Fixing your remedial students might require a change…A change in YOUR psychological framework and avenue of approach to the student.
Fixing Problem Shooters: Part 2
Article 034 – Think you need a lot of resources to train effectively? Think again.
What if They Don’t Like It?
Article 033 – It’s easy to think of teaching or mentoring as a waste of time if a student doesn’t pursue shooting or gun ownership afterwards. This isn’t true.
Fixing Problem Shooters – Part 1
Article 031 – Applying brain-science research to remedial in-service training. First task? Don’t make them worse.
Three Reasons Why You Should Mentor A New Shooter
Article 029 – The distributed, less formal training structures that are usually involved in mentoring can produce better, safer, and more effective shooters and gun owners than virtually any other known training method.
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.