2014 PDN Training Tour Update 4/7

All right. So we just finished up week two of the 2014 Personal Defense Network Training Tour. And I've spent most of my time here in Florida since the tour started. And of course we have other instructors who've been busy out in the rest of the world. We've had classes in New York, we've had classes in Nevada, had a lot of classes going on from the other contributors. So, as always be sure to check out personaleventsnetwork.com and see the complete schedule. We've got over 60 classes this year, we've got about a dozen different instructors that are gonna be contributing. We've got nine lead instructors that are actually listed on the schedule at the website. So take advantage of the opportunity. There's still plenty of time left in the 2014 Personal Defense Network Training Tour. I myself am heading up to South Carolina today. I'm gonna be doing a women's assault prevention class as part of the wrong woman program. We're doing an evening event at a local church. I think there's been 40 or 50 people there. So it's really a seminar based class. I'm looking forward to that. You'll see some video and some excerpts from that next week in the update. I'm also gonna be doing an instructor development course up there for our defensive firearms coaching program. Over this past weekend, I was at the Gander Mountain Academy in Lake Mary Florida. Now this is the largest of all the Gander Mountain Academies. There are six locations around the country and today what I wanna take a look at is there are 180 degree range and start talking about some of the ways that you could visit one of the academies and use the 180 degree simulator range to get some really practical defensive training. Now they have a system they're called Number One Gun. And the Number One Gun System gives you the opportunity to engage a lot of different types of targets in a lot of different types of ways with several different background settings. And the system does a great job of keeping track and keeping score for you. If you want to go in there with your friends and just have a good time and do some competition type shooting, very low cost obviously high safety element there because there's no live fire using laser training guns. You get some recoil, you get some good experience. You can also work from the holster in the simulated ranges at all the Gander Mountain Academies, whether you're in the shooting lanes, in the 180 or even in the 300 degrees scenario simulator. So there's a lot of advantages that environment, but the trick is knowing how to use it. If you go in there and just let all the targets come up and treat it like a computerized plate rack and swing through them all trying to get the fastest time, the best score. Well, you may have a lot of fun with your buddies but you're really not gaining any practical skillset that's related to defensive shooting. So what I like to do is, set it up so that we're gonna have random presentations of targets, whether it's a bullseye target, silhouette target, doesn't really matter. The best one in this program that I like to use in the 180 degree simulators is the bullseye target, because when it comes up at different distances it actually presents itself as a different size target. And that'll give you the opportunity to balance your speed and precision. If the target comes up in the picture, very close you've got a really large close chest-sized target. If the target comes up in one of the back corners of the video scene you're looking at, it may be a much smaller head-size target or, of course, represent as it does a target that is of this size, further away. So the idea that you have to search the area constantly assess the environment. You can't see the entire screen at one time, you're looking for that target to come up. There's sound effects when the target presents itself of course you can drive out, do your lateral movement. You can come from the holster. You can do a lot of different things. Of course, Gander Mountain Academy is one of our tour sponsors this year. They're joined by our other returning sponsors, GunVault, Cross Breed Holsters and the U.S. Concealed Carry Association. And our new sponsor is ExtremeBeam Flashlights, CMMG Manufacturing, of course, great ARs from them and Springfield Armory, specifically the XD, XDM and XDS pistols that we're using on the range so much, including one of the loaners we handed out this weekend at the Saturday class at Gander Mountain Academy. So, that's it for me from a DGG taser and tactical supply. This is of course is the headquarters of ICE training company as well. If you sign up for any classes or you deal with our online store or you order the videos, the CrossBreed Holsters, whatever it is you get from us. It's all coming from here in Northern Florida. And I hope to see you somewhere along the tour as I continue to head up the East coast, head up through the Midwest and eventually end up through the Rocky mountains through the Pacific Northwest and all the way up in Alaska at the end of the 2014 Personal Events Network Training Tour in August.