2022 PDN Tour Recap

Good morning. I'm Rob Pincus, the Executive Director of Personal Defense Network, and you have to deal with me a little bit today. I have a little bit of a hoarse voice, but we're gonna get through this live, and then right after this, if you're a gold-level member of Personal Defense Network, we are gonna do a live talking about resource-constrained environments, training on a budget. But right now we are gonna talk about the 2022 Personal Defense Network training tour that just ended. We are in early October right now. We ended in mid-September this year. You know, this was really our first year back after the pandemic pause with a full tour. We did well over 120 classes. We were in over 35 locations around the country. I also went down to Mexico and taught a couple of classes that were part of the tour, so we expanded into all of North America this year, even though our logo is still just the United States, obviously that's the vast majority of our classes. We had a full team of instructors with us that I'm gonna talk about here in a few minutes, and of course we had some awesome sponsors. So first of you're not familiar with the Personal Defense Network Training tour, this is something that we started in 2012, making part of the Personal Defense Network family. And of course, the history of Personal Defense Network goes back to training DVDs. So, 17, 18 years ago, we started producing approximately hour-long training DVDs, starting obviously with Armed Defense, which is, you know, my specialty, close-quarters defensive shooting, and then branching out to involve other instructors, other specialties and really become a comprehensive series of DVDs with well over 100 DVDs produced over a little over a decade that we did that project. Well, over a decade ago, we transitioned from a DVD based distribution system, obviously to online streaming. There are still some people out there who like the DVDs, that's great. But for the most part, we've moved into a streaming platform at Personal Defense Network. We started that brand in 2010. By 2012, it became obvious that people wanted to interact with our instructors. You know, obviously not just me, but all of our contributors are out there teaching classes. It's one of the really important things about Personal Defense Network is that all of our contributors, everybody, obviously, who is tour instructor, but even the people that you see writing articles, the people that you see in our videos, whether they're short videos, premium videos, free videos, even our sponsored videos where we work with some of the great companies in the industry, everyone you see here is a teacher. Everyone's an educator. So there's absolutely value to be gained from people who just compete and they get really good at competition shooting, and they can share their ideas. People who are armed professionals and they work in law enforcement or the military and they find things out. Even people who have real life self-defense stories, there's things that we can get from them. But it's incredibly important that Personal Defense Network for me, as a director, that we are always educating, we're always teaching. And this team of instructors we put together really is the heart of the tour because just however many classes I can do, it's not enough. It doesn't really represent PDN. So let me talk about the team a little bit and we'll bring up some images from the team, from their work around the country. You know, we'll start with Barret Kendrick. Barrett is a well-known entity if you're a PDN member. He hosts our training talk show. He's based out of Louisiana. He also is one of the leaders in the USCCA DSF program. Alessandro Padovani has been a contributor for over a decade to PDN. He does knife work, close quarters work, based out of California. Mike is one of the newest contributors, one of the newest members of the tour team. He actually went out and trained after surgery this year and did a lot of great teaching. Clint Macro, he's another one of our USCCA DSF leaders. He's a training counselor of well regarded inside of the USCCA community. Deryck Poole, also, a training talk host. He's been with us for a number of years on the tour, Echo-5 training. Jerah Hutchins specializes in new shooters. She works a lot with women based out of Texas and she also is one of our new contributors. And Kevin Dixie, he's been with us for a couple years. And one of the cool things I'll talk about later, he runs the Train and Learn event every year as well. Ryan Hoover, this is his first year on the tour, close quarters work, integrated work with knives and guns out of North Carolina. And Don Edwards former SF guy who I actually attended one of his classes this year, primarily focuses on long gun work and low light work. And that was the team for this year's Personal Defense Network training tour. Now, if you're curious about going back after this live and seeing some of what they posted, the things that they were doing, I'm learning more about them. Of course, pdntrainingtour.com is where you can see, well so you can still see a list of classes that took place during the tour. It's not a full list, but there is still a list there. You can get an idea of probably what's gonna happen next year. Many of us on the tour, we move around the country, but we go back to a lot of the same places. Generally every year, I like to do 20 to 30% of my classes at a new range. One of the things that I think the tour does and that the idea of traveling to meet people where they are and provide this instruction, one of the things that I think we do really well inside of this team is create training communities. So we go out and we find a place that wants to host, or more likely a place reaches out to us and says, "Hey, we'd love to host a class. How do we do that? What do you need?" We tell 'em what we need. Usually for me, it's students, target stands and a safe backdrop, and most of our instructors work in a pretty minimalist way, and an interest to go out, and even if we run a class with, you know, four or five, six people, next year it might be 8, 10, 12 people. The year after that, it might be four classes from two or three different instructors. And pretty soon all of a sudden they're hosting almost all the tour instructors, you know, three or four or five years in. So finding new locations to train at's really important. If you wanna get an idea about what it would look like if you hosted a course, pdntrainingtour.com or the hashtag #PDNTour2022, PDN Tour 2022. You can see a lot of the Instagram posts, some of the stuff on Twitter, Facebook, you know, all the social media. And of course there's some YouTube videos out there as well. So personaldefensenetwork.com, that's obviously where I want you to go to get the training information, see what these guys are putting out in terms of articles and videos for educational purposes. But go to the social media, take a look at what the experiences of not only the instructors are, but also the hosts and the teachers. 'Cause I know a lot of the guys that come to our classes and I say guys cause I'm from New Jersey, but guys, girls, whatever that come to our classes, they use that hashtag as well. So you'll see a lot of class photos, you'll see a lot of action, a lot of activity, and you'll get an idea of what it'll be like. Obviously not everyone can get to a class, that's why we have PDN. But if you can get to a class, obviously that's gonna be great to get that hands-on instruction. With a guy like Ryan Hoover or Alessandro Padovani, they're literally gonna be putting their hands on you in those close quarters classes, the knife classes, the unarmed defense classes, the integrated defense classes, but even out on the range, you know, being there with an instructor to get that first-person coaching is really what the tour is about. Now, of course, the idea here starts with, we're doing classes anyway. You have to be, as someone who's teaching classes to be a PDN contributor, and if we're going out there and we're reaching people, we want to promote the PDN brand. You know, one of the things that I tell people at the end of every class, you know, we don't hand out a book or a class outline or a video. You know, here's what you learned. I tell 'em, go back to PDN. If you go to personaldefensenetwork.com, put into the search bar whatever topic we covered in one of our defensive shooting classes or at home defense tactics class, and you're probably gonna find a lot of videos, and not just from me, but from the people on that tour team, as well as the other dozens of instructors that we have at Personal Defense Network. The tour gives us a more concentrated opportunity to promote the idea of coming to a class, coming out to a class in-person, and obviously then reinforcing that with the information that we're putting out here at the website. Without the sponsors of the tour, it would be really hard to do. You know, that's sort of what brings us together, is the idea that we're teaching people about the tactics and the techniques, the skills that we're doing, the drills, we're doing all that development in-person anyway, what's unique about the tour is obviously it's tied to the PDN brand, but also we bring in some amazing companies from around the industry. Now, at my training company, and I think this is true for most of the people who contribute to the tour, we try not to get brand-specific, right? It's great to have the backing of a brand that we trust. Obviously we're sharing information all the time with our students about what equipment we're using and what guns we see students using successfully in classes, or what knife is quick and easy to deploy in a defensive situation. All of those things come out during the class, but working directly with those companies to promote their products to share with you what we think they have that is of value to you, as someone interested in personal defense, that really gets focused in what we do in the videos, gets focused into what we do with the tour. So, you know, all you have to do is look at the tour logo any given year and get an idea of some of the great companies that we work with. And in this wrap up, I want to give you know, an overview. I wanna give you an idea of really why I love these companies. If you have any specific questions, I've got the chat window open over here. Go ahead and jump in and ask me, ask me about a specific product from any of these companies. Ask me about my experience or the student experience. To me that's really the key, right? And that's one of the things I wanna talk about. Now, one of the things I don't have out here, 'cause I just flew in last night to Minneapolis and I did not bring one of my Nemo rifles, but it won't take you long if you look at any of my social media, you're gonna see a bunch of Nemo rifle pictures. I have had as much fun with Nemo rifles this year as I have with any sponsor, with any product, with anything I've ever used because I started using Nemo rifles about this time last year. I reached out to them and said, personally, I have a skill development process that I want to go through. It's been a long time since I did a lot of long range precision shooting. It's been a long time since I've been a student of long range precision shooting. And I want to get back into it. You know, I went to a Ballistic Summit that was held at the Whittington Center in August of 2021, and I really just got that spark ignited and I said, "I want to do this." So I reached out to Nemo because they have some incredible rifles. I had my eyes on the Nemo OMEN 300 Win Mag, and I wanted to get myself and one rifle at least up to one-mile performance, and I met that goal. If you follow my social media again, you go back and look at it. In August of this year, at the same event, the Ballistic Summit hosted by Lucid Optics, I was able to get consistent hits at over a mile, actually over 2000 yards with my Nemo OMEN. In the background of that, which was my own personal skill development journey that happened over the last year. Of course, I'm teaching people about close quarters home defense, and as cool as the OMEN is, 300 Win Mag is not the home defense round of choice, and a 22-inch rifle that weighs 11 pounds with a high power scope on it isn't the way to go. What is the way to go is the Battle-Light. And not only in my classes, but also you can go out and look at some of the content that's come out from Kevin Dixie, obviously Don Edwards, I'm running a lot of rifle classes. I used a Battle-Light 1.0 in one of his rifle classes, that was at tactile response back in July. Barrett Kendrick just put out some recent information also. Now, I featured myself and we had a video, great video that came out just a couple days ago, I think maybe within the last week from Personal Defense Network. I featured an 8.5-inch 556 Nemo Battle-Light 1.0 pistol, and this was a braced pistol. It's usually suppressed. I'm wearing a three-power MicroPrism on it, and I think it's a great setup for home defense. Now, a lot of people question the validity of a short barreled 556 AR, but again, if they're looking at it in a military context, very different from what we do in terms of home defense. So go check out that video, check out what's going on with Nemo. I can't tell you how many thousands of rounds have gone through both my Battle-Light rifle and my Battle-Light pistol with students. Because when students' rifles go down, and students' rifles do go down, we need to be able to hand them something to use that's gonna get them through the rest of that class. And that's sort of the importance of the demo rifles and the demo braced pistols that we have in a tour environment. So a lot of the instructors were able to experience that, and a lot of them have talked about that. So much thanks to Nemo for being a sponsor this year. This was their first year with us. We've worked with some great rifle companies, but this one was really a lot of fun, because like I said in the background, I was doing a lot of my own personal skill development. You know, we always say always a student. This year I really put myself under the gun to get some real developmental work done, and classes with Don Edwards, classes with WyoTac, personal study, practice sessions, Jeffrey Abraham, Not Right Shooters out of Georgia. Another one that we went out and had some fun. You can see some of that on my YouTube, doing some rifle competition. He's a big competition guy as well as an educator. Lots of fun there. But teaching, primarily I focus on the pistol, and this year's tour sponsor for the pistol was also a new company, Canik. And Canik has really not come out of nowhere by any stretch, but really taken a huge bump in terms of popularity and just brand awareness over the last couple of years. I actually went back and looked before this live, I first started shooting these guns just before the pandemic pause, about three years ago, three and a half years ago, I first started shooting a couple of Caniks down in Florida, my home range down there at Ancient City, and really was impressed with 'em, especially, as always gets said, at the price point. They were a high-value gun. They were something that people looked at and said, "Well, I don't know if I want to spend the money to go to, you know, one of the main brands." And and people know that for a long time. I try not to be brand-specific again, as primarily a defensive shooting instructor. I tell people, look, I've seen Glocks work, you know, Gen3s particularly for who knows, what, three decades now. I've seen the XD series and the Mod.2 series, which is the same internals, work for a couple few decades now. The M&P series, the 2.0 is mostly an external update. So that internal box, that what's going on inside of the box there, seen that work, and it's easy enough. Those three guns, check those out, whichever one fits your hand, you're gonna be fine. But obviously not everybody's gonna want one of those three brands and other brands are gonna come onto the market. SIG would be an example. You know, SIG has completely revitalized their handgun market going from a very older design, the Decocker double-action, single-action design, to a much more modern striker-fired gun, and done a lot of great work with it. So enter Canik. Where does Canik fit in? Canik gets your attention because, ah, man, everybody's saying they're reliable. I have students coming into classes, they're using 'em, they're reliable, and they're comfortable guns, and they're incredibly affordable. So really started looking at 'em again three or four years ago. The METE series came out, M-E-T-E. This is the SFX. The SFT is the smaller version. When they came out last summer, I got my hands on very early versions. In fact, this was one of the first ones I got, started shooting it a lot and really just couldn't get away from the fact that it's a large gun that's very comfortable. The way it's contoured, the way it's set up fits a lot of hands, and and that's really one of the things that makes it important to consider as a tour pistol. Because again, when those students have guns that don't fit their hands, when the student has a gun that doesn't work, for whatever reason, try this. Or if a student's just having trouble sometimes disrupting the way they're holding the gun, the way they're pulling the trigger on their gun, which maybe will eventually be fine for them, let me hand you a gun that's probably gonna fit your hand that I know is reliable, that I know you're gonna be able to hit the target with, and let's see what you do. And sometimes that'll flip a switch and all of a sudden the technique becomes what they're focused on, not the way they shoot their gun or the way they shot their gun prior to the class. So I can tell you that the SFTs, thousands of rounds, this one, this one's a little bit racier, a little bit bigger, obviously it's got the optic, it's got a longer slide, it's got the magwell. Right, this one's built up more as a competition-style gun, but for home defense, you know, this will fit in the Vaultek. We're gonna get to the Vaultek in a minute. But this will fit very well inside of a home defense scenario. And obviously it's set up to be used as a competition gun or just a fun gun to shoot. So putting that into student hands was very successful for me. And again, you can go out and look and see what the other instructors said, #PDNTour2022. And one of the cool things about the Canik experience this year as a tour sponsor, we actually had a couple of guys from the company, Century Arms, that imports all the Caniks. When they bring 'em into the country, obviously it goes through a US importer, and Century Arms, which is well-known to a lot of people in the community, they are the importer for Canik. They send a couple of guys out to one of our classes just near the end of the tour up in Massachusetts, and I really enjoyed having them there. I think one of the things that happens when the sponsors come out to the classes, which doesn't happen as much as you think it might, and not only do they figure out exactly what it is we're teaching and see that, but they see how the guns are being used. You know, we are really proud of the fact, with our instructor team, that we're educators. We want to teach by explanation. We want the student's performance to be what the students focused on, not our demos or our showing off, or our, you know, timer runs or whatever that might be. You know, our standard doesn't matter. What matters is the students getting better and then, you know, continuing to improve their standard level of performance. The Canik guns are just, they're a lot of fun to shoot. I probably shot more this year in front of the students because I had the Canik guns, just because they're great, they're easy to shoot, they're incredibly reliable, and it's very easy to do something. And then maybe the student says, oh, well yeah, you've got the big gun and you've been practicing and you're, you know, on PDN and you've been around forever, Rob, you're super old, you've been practicing. And then give them the gun and have them do exactly the same thing, or in many cases, even outshoot and outperform me or other instructors, because, you know, again, the focus is on the student. And when you give them a gun that's comfortable, that's reliable and that's capable, you see students sometimes jump up to a higher level of performance. Now, they need to be able to apply that performance to their gun, but I know that more than a couple of students this year decided they were gonna make the Canik their gun for that very reason. So you can learn more about their guns, the ones I've been shooting over the past couple of years, at personaldefensenetwork.com. Keep an eye on them. They've got some stuff coming out that I've been briefed on that really is gonna, I think, shock the industry. They're not a bargain brand. They're not a budget brand. They're a very fairly priced, very affordable, very high-end gun. They've come a long way in a few years. We're very proud to have them again as a tour sponsor. One of the other companies that I've worked with forever, right? So I've got Nemo that I've only worked with, you know, formally for a little over a year. Canik, I've been flirting with them and they've done some things on PDN, but this is the first year they're on the tour, and then there's Winchester. Winchester Ammunition and I have a relationship that goes back a long, long time, all the way back to the Valhalla Training Center. And I've done a lot of development work with them, promotional work with them, testing work with them, to let students understand how their defensive ammo works, for, again, well over a decade. You know, going back to the PDX line, the Defender line. They've got some great technology, and that's really where Winchester, I think, shines, is what their bullets do inside of the target. And whether it's the hunting ammunition or the defensive ammunition, that's generally what we focus on. On the other end of the spectrum, they've got incredibly affordable practice ammo as well. And the White Box, it is one of the most commonly seen brands out there in the community, right? You see it practice ranges, you see it at competition ranges. They've got a lot of great lines inside of the Winchester ammunition line. But on the training range, we focus on White Box. White Box isn't the round you're gonna go to for hunting. White Box isn't the round you're gonna go to for super high-level precision competition environments, but it is a great round to put into your gun, whether it's a Canik, or any other gun that you're shooting, to get the training, to get the reps that you need at a very fair price. And, you know, with the exception of a very short period of time, it's been incredibly available. So Winchester has done a great job of keeping up with the demand. Obviously ammunition companies haven't needed to advertise or promote in the last few years. So the fact that they're still with us, that they're back as a tour sponsor, we really appreciate that. They're selling all the ammo they can make, but it's important that we remind the students out on the range that, you know, we do have rounds that we've used, or lines of ammunition that we've used, for now, you know, decades, I've shot Winchester ammunition. You know, I can't tell you how many thousands of rounds. It's one of those things, like, it would've been neat if I'd, you know, wrote down how many classes I've taught, how many students I've had, how many rounds I've shot through any of my demo guns, and certainly how many rounds of White Box I've shot. But I don't know, I'm not good at those kinds of details. I will tell you it's, I don't know if it's a million rounds, but it's gotta be close by now. So when you're looking for an ammunition that is reliable and good and affordable on the range for practice, certainly consider White Box. But when you look at everything that Winchester has to offer, you know, a lot of people wanna make sure that their training round is matching their performance round, the round that they're using either for hunting or for competition or obviously, for us, for personal defense. And that's where the W line, the W Train and Defend line, is something that we've featured in a lot of videos. Again, you can learn more about that at personaldefensenetwork.com. The W line has ballistically matched hollow point, the Defend, the D rounds, and flat-front ball rounds, essentially, you know, jacketed rounds, but they're flat-front, not round-nose like the White Box is, and they're exactly the same. So the recoil impulse is the same, the flight path is the same for all practical purposes. You can get a one-to-one idea of what shooting the gun's gonna feel like, what the recoil management's gonna be like, what the muzzle blast is gonna be like, and what the bullet performance is gonna be like, when you train with the T rounds, which are obviously much lower price than the hollow point, highly engineered D rounds inside of that W line. So take a look at that. You know, there isn't a caliber that we're gonna consider for personal defense use that Winchester doesn't make the training rounds for or an appropriate defensive round for 'em. And again, you know, gotta give a nod to, especially this time of year, to the hunting rounds that they use. And those ballistic silver tips, I've talked about this a lot over the years. The ballistic silver tip, which obviously is made as a hunting round, pretty good close-quarters home defense round as well, when we start looking at the long guns. Let's go to Vaultek, talking about the home defense. Vaultek is another company that's one of the new companies that's with us here on the tour for the first time this year, and I have said this publicly, I'll say it again on this wrap up, I was a little skeptical of Vaultek. You know, Vaultek came in, I actually met them at a TriggrCon event in the Pacific Northwest. TriggrCon just had another event recently in Kansas, but the first couple of TriggrCons were out in Washington state. Rainier Arms, obviously, is the company behind TriggrCon. And I met the Vaultek guys and they, you know, out of nowhere, big booth, you know, lots of video, lots of flashy lights, really high tech displays, slick, sharp, you know, fast-talking, check this out, it's cool, it does everything. And when something comes on the market and it does everything, I immediately am gonna be skeptical, like you probably are as well. You know, if it really does everything, does it do any of it well, does it do any of it well enough? And when we talk about personal defense, home defense, it needs to do it really well, not just well enough. Vaultek has really impressed me. They have lived up to the hype, they have lived up to their flash, they've lived up to their marketing, they've lived up to the promotion, and I'm incredibly proud to have them on the tour this year. And I, again, it's not just me. I would encourage you go out, see what the other instructors on the tour have said. You know, the LifePod is the smaller, much more travelable safe, the quick access safe, that a lot of us have been using. You've seen that one on the tour. But this, the Vaultek 2 series, this series, the 20 series is, it's a heavy safe. This is a rugged safe, obviously it's got redundant entry options. I've got the key on the front, I've got the biometric scanner and I've got the push button code. I can use any or all of them, I can use them differently. This also is Bluetooth-integrated. So if I have, if my girlfriend's gonna get into it, if my older daughter comes into town and she wants to get into it, she can have her own code. I can program them obviously into the biometric as well. And then it's got the key backup. The other cool thing about this is one of the things people ask is, well what about the failure rates? Well, you know, I have not met a biometric scanner or an RFID that's perfect yet. Obviously I could screw up hitting the buttons on the code. We've talked a lot for years about how we don't really want to be using a key during an emergency, during a home defense emergency. I don't wanna have to go find the key, and then the finer motor skill of using the key is an issue. So what are the failure rates? Well, I'll tell you that this is easily, easily top level on the biometric. 100%? No. But I've never used any biometric, I don't think anybody's gonna have a biometric that 100% of the time you touch it, it pops open, but it resets very quickly. I'm very easy to get in there and you know, again, I didn't keep track, I didn't keep stats, but this is literally the safe that I use inside of my home. You can see I've got my stickers on it for the Gun Pro pledge and Walk the Talk America. Those are my Cause a Pause stickers. You know, if I'm in that moment of reaching for the gun and I don't really need to be reaching for a gun, they remind me to, you know, maybe I've been drinking or something like that. A friend wants to see the gun. Oh sure, I'll show it to you. You know, Nope. They remind me not to do that at that time. You can see this one's beat up. It's definitely been around the country and around the ranges, and we've used it as a demo safe also in our home defense classes. So at the end of the home defense classes, I'll tell people what the code is, and we'll put in a training code and I'll let them actually get their gun out of this safe and use it in a drill. And under pressure, under stress. You know, they just learned the code, they're new to the safe. Sometimes the safe gets dropped, sometimes the safe gets knocked off. Sometimes I'll flip the table, just to throw a more advanced student a little bit of a curve ball and they gotta go pick it up off the ground and get that gun out of it. The safe is rugged. The safe is reliable. It's very affordably priced. And again, the technology, the integration with the Bluetooth, the monitoring, the light that's on the inside, you know, one of the things I talked about was even the lights on the keypad, it kind of threw me off. Traditionally the keypad lights on any other safe that I've used, you have to push a button to get the light to come on. This one, when I get close to it, you can see the light comes on even without me needing to push the button, which is really cool, except it caused a like a training scar reaction. When I would reach for the safe and I would go to hit the button, it would light up. And in my brain that would make me think I must have accidentally hit a button, not the one that I was going to touch. So a super cool feature, but one that I had to learn about and train to. But it's kind of amazing once you have it, you're like, well gee, that makes all the sense in the world. Why would I want to use a safe that I have to hit the right button or hit any button to get the light to come on? And then potentially I've hit the wrong button, because the light wasn't on. So the fact that those buttons light up, not only the biometrics, so you can find that square more easily, but also the numbers on that, that's a really cool feature on this particular safe. One of the things about this also, people say, well gee, Rob, okay, it's got all these electronic gizmos and Bluetooth and everything else. How often do you have to have battery charged? You know, how does the battery die? I have had this safe since February, let's say maybe early March. The tour launched in March and this was one of my tour demo safes. So somewhere in February or March, I got this safe and that was the first time I charged it. I didn't have to charge this safe again to, I think we were in the September, I think it was, it was either late August or early September. And again, using it all the time, using it in videos, using it in demos, using it as my travel safe, as well as one of my primary quick access safes at my place at the western headquarters in Colorado. And I only had to charge it once, and it started warning me through the app on my phone, as well as by its beep sequence once it would open. It started warning me when it hit 20%. So over six months of a lot of use, probably way more use than anybody who's just gonna kind of set it and forget it in their home, I was able to get 80, only use 80% of the charge. And that's assuming I actually charged it up fully in the first place, so Vaultek has been great to work with. They have a wide range of safes. They're also one of the few companies that has a true quick access solution with their RS series for long guns. So if you have a AR shotgun, whatever your home defense rifle is, they have a true full-featured quick access, much like this safe, they have one of those set up that is rifle-size as well. So definitely consider them, take a really good look at them. I think they are the most advanced quick access safe on the market, which is pretty cool to have them as our tour sponsor this year. I'm gonna run a quick commercial because if you're watching this for free, you have to know that you can get more than just live videos from PDN and from me if you sign up for our newsletter. Not only will you get the alerts about all of our live presentations, but you also get some special opportunities from the sponsors, discounts, things like that and alerts whenever new videos are posted. So whenever we're doing our, you know, four to six minute, kind of our normal educational videos, you'll get alerts when those come out. 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So if you guys have questions about, you know, you can see all those sponsors right down there in that bar. You can see 'em out here. If you have questions about any of these products or maybe even any of the instructors, I'll talk to you about the instructors if you want to. So throw that out there. Somebody said, you know, they're talking about the guns that they have, you know, the chat. Chat can kind of take on a life of its own. Feel free to share your experiences with other brands or other things, you know, chit-chat about that. What do you see here? But especially if you have experiences with these brands or with the products that we're talking about, or with our instructors, throw that into the chat as well. I will say I am only monitoring one of the many chats that are out there. I think I'm on the one that is at personaldefensenetwork.com. If you're watching this through social media, through YouTube, there may be a separate chat going on. I'm not necessarily seeing that, but usually the staff here will throw something in there if I need to see that. So ask your questions, make your comments. Even if we don't get to 'em during the live, I or another instructor will try to follow up with you for sure. Let me talk a little bit about the instructors. Again, one of the things that we did this year that I've now done two years in a row, it was the third year for a very special event in Missouri called The Train and Learn Event. And this is hosted by No Other Choice Training and that of course is Kevin Dixie. He's become a great valued contributor to us here at PDN. He's a good friend of mine. He does incredible work on the civil rights front, including gun rights obviously, is an incredibly important civil right here for us at Personal Defense Network, but also just in terms of mentoring and educating people. He is a true educator. He's a gifted speaker and he's a very motivational, inspirational guy. And what he decided to do was get an event specifically for people, especially who were new to the community but wanted to be leaders, wanted to be community members, wanted to be influencers in the community. And he started this Train and Learn event for people who maybe they understood a lot about civil rights, but they honestly hadn't shot a gun much. Maybe they had shot a whole bunch, but they didn't really understand much about the legal issues surrounding the gun rights fight. And this was an opportunity for people to come together all inside the industry one way or another, train and learn. And I was invited to teach one year, and last year, this year, this past year, I just went as a student and it was a great experience. And I don't know, there were probably 50, 60 people there as students, but one of the cool things about this year was we had several Personal Defense Network training tour instructors teaching at the event. And in fact, I think at one point we counted it up, there were between the people teaching and the people attending. There were over a dozen people who had worked with Personal Defense Network, whether it was on a training DVD or one of our tour instructors obviously, or someone who was just helping out with articles, that were there participating and not all teaching. Some of 'em were there just as a student, like I was. But I know this year we had Ryan Hoover did some teaching. Barrett Kendrick did some teaching with his Nemo in a rifle class. Obviously, Kevin Dixie was there running the whole thing. Jerah Hutchins, Clearing the Chamber, another one of our tour instructors. She helps, she's kinda the operations director. She makes sure that we're sticking the schedule and everything's working the way it's supposed to at the event. And I'm sure there were other people there. Ken from Provectus, Ken was there. Ken has helped us out a lot inside of Personal Defense Network as well. He's done some featured videos, but it was great to see not only Kevin's event growing and really providing this incredible value as a tour event. Also, the classes there were considered Personal Defense Network training tour events this year. But also to see him involving other instructors that are part of the PDN family, it makes me proud. It's not, you know, any kind of an arrangement that we have. It's not an agreement, it's not an obligation by any stretch that tour instructors have to teach there or that he has to use tour instructors. The fact that he chooses them and that they provide value to the students there, something we're really proud of. So there are several events during the year where you'll find more than one PDN tour instructor working together, or you'll see a tour instructor being a student in another person's class. In fact, Ryan Hoover just hosted a class within the last week or two that Kevin Dixie, or I'm sorry, he didn't host a class, he put on a class that Kevin Dixie was a student in. As I mentioned earlier, I was a student in one of the tour classes that Don Edwards did, a designated rifle marksman, a designated marksman course with a rifle that I shot. And we shot out to about 600 yards in that class. So lots of integrated learning, lots of comparing notes. Again, I can't say enough about the great team we've put together. And remember, all of us are teaching all year round. We're not just teaching during the tour. One of the important things about tour classes is they have to be travel classes. I'm mostly a homeless nomad, so it's kind of all the classes for me are gonna travel anyway. But a lot of people, they may teach 80% of their classes at their home range, and then the other 20% count as tour classes. Clint Macro comes to mind. Clint teaches a lot of classes in Western Pennsylvania at his home range. I've taught there. He is hosted courses for me. I've watched him teach, I've team team taught with him out there. He's hosted other instructors out there from our team as well. But that's where he does the vast majority of his training is at his home range and at his classroom that he runs at his business. He only counts his travel classes as tour classes, an important fundamental. So just because you don't see a class on the tour schedule doesn't mean that one of these instructors isn't offering it, particularly in their home area, or outside of the seven-month-long tour schedule. So this fall and this winter, we're all teaching, we're teaching all over the place. It's just not part of the Personal Defense Network training tour. So once again, pdntrainingtour.com, go check that out and you'll see who's there. You can follow the links back to their websites and see where else they are teaching outside of the tour. Now, this year I had a situation come up in August where I was not able to get to one of my favorite tour locations, traditionally for a number of years. The last tour course of the year back when I used to drive across the country from east to west, was in the Pacific Northwest, about 35 feet from the Canadian border at the Next Level Training Headquarters. And NLT SIRT is another one of our incredible sponsors that's been with us for a long time. I think they actually have been with us longer than any other sponsor, and I wanna say they've done every year. They may not have done every year, but I feel like they were with us, this year was our 10th tour year. It wasn't the 10th annual, I guess in some ways, because we obviously took the 2020 pandemic pause, but this was our 10th year to officially have a tour. And I think SIRT's been with us, if not every year, just about every year. And it's an incredible training tool. We have a ton of videos at PDN. We have back in the DVDs, you know, Mike Hughes actually did a DVD with us back in the early days. Mike has hosted a bunch of classes. Mike teaches all over the country. He's incredibly well-known, especially in the instructor community. So inside of the instructor community for arm defense, for firearms training, not only in the defensive world, but also in the competition world. Of course, he's one of the top shot show champions. Mike is just a great guy. Brit, his whole team incredibly dedicated to instruction, dedicated to training, dedicated to education, and that's why it's great fun to work with him. Last year we launched a new course at the event during the tour when I was there in 2021, and this year traveling around the country, I taught that new course several times using SIRT Pistols to help people get higher level or higher numbers of reps in a very safe way as a group on a live fire range. And one of the things Mike's taught me is that there are ways to integrate live fire training and non-live fire training that are safe, that are responsible and actually end up making the training more valuable for the students and safer overall. And for me, in our unorthodox shooting position classes, that's really where we see the usefulness of the SIRT pistol. If you picture, you know, you can go research this, look at the videos again, the social media, you'll see the pictures and videos of this, picture eight or nine people laying on the ground, all of them with their gun, whether they're carrying appendix or on the hip or behind the hip, the gun's pointed basically parallel with their legs. Well, if they're all laying down with their head to the left and their feet to the right, they're essentially pointing their guns at one another. When the gun's in the holster doesn't really matter. When you pull the gun out of the holster, obviously we don't wanna be covering people with a live gun on the range. Well, using the SIRT pistol allows us to pull the gun out in a way that might be covering somebody, get it oriented towards the target and learn how to present safely in that unorthodox shooting position on a live fire range with a whole group of students. And then when it comes to it live, now we can line everybody up and say, okay, you've practiced it dry, now we're gonna go slow, right? One of the things we wanna be careful of is don't think you can do it as fast as you were doing it, you know, with the laser trainer. Mentally, live fire ammo changes things. We just know people's behavior is gonna be a little different. We continue to go slow, but it shortens the time that we have to do one-person reps. So in other words, if I have to do 20 reps for each person and there's nine people in the class, you know, 9 times 20, 180 reps takes x amount of time. If I can do 15 of those reps with a SIRT pistol with the whole group all at once, now I go from 180 individual reps with everybody else watching. Now, I go down to five times now 45 reps. I've cut that, you know, by 25% maybe, or more in some of the positions that are redundant where we practice some of the same things and some of the same moves and some of the same angles where the techniques overlap. The SIRT pistol really helps us do that in a much safer way as a group in a much faster way, and that eventually means we get to cover more in any one- or two-day class. So, SIRT Pistols, certainly we've talked for years about all the cool things they can do off the live fire range, but Mike and I developed this approach for unorthodox shooting positions that allow us to use them on the range as well, which to me is just a huge advantage for the student. If you're not familiar with the SIRT pistols, get familiar with 'em. They've got a lot of different models, models that feel like a lot of different guns, including the compact guns. They've got a small single stack, sort of a subcompact version that has different attachments, so it'll feel like the gun that you carry, you can get very close to what it feels like to carry, to be working with the gun that you carry. But you get this laser indicator, and if you aren't familiar with what this does, you can look at the table right there, you can see that laser light is coming on. There's also a prep laser, a dual laser on several of the models. The magazine is a weighted magazine that if you're practicing your reloads or just to get the feel for the gun, you know, there are things you can't do well with a laser gun as opposed to a live fire gun. But the SIRT pistol does as many things as any other option I've seen incredibly well. A high-quality company and, again, a company dedicated to education. The SIRT stick, if you're not familiar with that, the way this works is it allows you to get the same kind of training value with this laser activation inside of a long gun. So, if I can get this together properly. I wasn't planning on doing this on live TV, but it's really not that hard, so there we go. There we go. So now we got it all together. So now I can set this up. You know, I've got one of the new Primary Arms actually, you know, I'm gonna talk about Primary Arms Online here in a little while about one of our sponsors, but I've got one of their optics on here. I've got a sling on here, which is like the sling that I use on my Nemo, this one's a GrovTech. You can set this up very similarly to your home defense gun, your long gun that you wanna practice with, and again, you get that same value. The safety actually operates on it as well. So you get that, you know, going from the ready position into the shooting position. You manipulate the safety, you can set the length of the pole and the stock. The SIRT stick is another great tool from Next Level Training that allows you to get the same value but with a long gun instead of just the pistol. So take a look at them, see what they're doing. Mike is another guy who travels all around. I have a feeling he'll be at the USCCA expo that I'll be at also speaking and teaching in November. The USCCA expo, great segue into USCCA, another one of our sponsors. USCCA is a company that I've worked with since 2009. Actually, I think formally, before that, it's probably not true, about 2005 or so. 2009 I joined their advisory board, but USCCA has been around since I think 2004 and I think I first did something with them in their magazine around 2005. So been with them for a long time, watched the company grow, watched their constant rebirth, their evolution, their improvement, the way they've developed their product, the way they've developed their programs. Of course, I'm particularly fond of their defensive shooting fundamentals, live fire defensive shooting courses, which are based on our methodology. I'm really proud of that. Going back about a decade, we did our counter-ambush program together. There's an evolved version of that counter-ambush distance education package here at personaldefensenetwork.com. That all started with them. And again, is going back, when I think about all the cool things I've seen that company do and all the things I've been able to do with that company, having them as a sponsor of the tour makes all the sense in the world. And so many of our instructors trust the USCCA. We have their product to help us be prepared in the aftermath. You know, we've said forever, one of the most important things that I learned from another instructor that has been with me for over 20 years now is that the idea of the three fights, you know, and you can learn about the three fights here at personaleventsnetwork.com from Tony Blauer, who developed this idea. You know, there's the internal fight, and you know, by watching this video, you've won that in some ways, right? By being a PDN member, by coming to a PDN tour class, you've won that internal fight that you have with yourself just to get off the couch, you know, to take this stuff seriously. Then there's the fight with the bad guy, we always talk about that, and then there's the aftermath. If there was conflict, there will be aftermath. It's sort of how we define the existence of conflict is what was the effect of it? That aftermath, when it comes to armed personal defense especially, could very well involve some pretty hefty legal bills, and USCCA is there to help. That's what they do for their members, not just the education. The education maybe means you'll never need that aftermath, but if you do need that aftermath, the education hopefully means that you're well protected and what you did was appropriate and you did it well, but you still may find yourself in criminal or civil court, and USCCA Delta Defense will be there to help you if you're one of their members. And in fact, you know, there's been a lot of talk about, you know, well, what do they cover? When do they get involved? I know personally, they've recently helped out a friend of mine, who was involved in a situation where he found himself facing some criminal issues related to just one of those mistakes people make sometimes under the convoluted cloud of gun laws that we have, where, you know, completely thought he was in the right. There's a law enforcement agency that thinks he isn't in the right, and the USCCA Delta Defense actually has a fund where you can basically apply for a legal grant, whether you're a member or not, but particularly if you are a member outside of the coverage they are obligated to provide, they actually, I know for a fact, will sometimes provide above and beyond that when it's appropriate, and they review that internally as well. So, yeah, I can't say enough about how great the company is, the founder Tim and I, I consider him a great friend and one of the leaders in the industry. Super excited every year when USCCA comes back as a tour sponsor and proud to work with them, both through PDN and separately. So check out USCCA, look at their membership options. The premier and the platinum membership levels, you know, that's where you really get the emphasis on education, not just the aftermath protection. Take a look at it. Can't recommend it highly enough. One of the logos you don't see when that little bar comes up beneath me, or you don't see them on the tour patch, but someone who is important, or a company that was important to the tour this year is Vertx, and Vertx makes clothing, they make bags. This shirt is a Vertx shirt. It's one of their new Stretch line with the Guardian feature that we're gonna talk about here in a minute, the Weapon Guard. Vertx, probably, it's gotta be over a decade now. Vertx came on the scene as an answer to, you know, you see this, this doesn't look like a tactical shirt, right? This just looks like a regular polo shirt. Hopefully nothing too crazy tactical about it. Vertx came on the scene specifically to fill the gap between functional clothing for armed professionals, particularly federal law enforcement guys and range clothing, because a lot of the leading companies in that environment, they essentially are making uniform clothes. You know, and especially if you go back to like the 1990s, even when I was active in full-time law enforcement, you know, the clothes we were getting that were kind of marketed to us and built for us, and made for the range, made to be rugged, made to be almost like casual uniform-type clothing. It looked like casual uniform clothing. It didn't look like something like this, so the kind of thing you would wear every day and just have out there on your person and nobody would really know it was tactical clothing. Vertx led the way in developing functional clothing for on and off the range, particularly for armed professionals that looked like everyday clothing. And of course that made it even better for the person who isn't an armed professional who wanted rugged, serviceable clothing. And one of the things that's really cool about it is this weapon guard underlayer. And you can kind of see this seam right here, and that's where that break is. And what that does is that means I can carry all the gear on my belt, whether it's inside the waistband or even outside the waistband, under an untucked, casual-looking shirt. But I'm still protected from having all that stuff rubbing up against me, which is great for low profile, for concealed carry, for armed professionals. These clothes have really evolved over the years, and of course, Vertx doesn't just do shirts, they don't just do that particular line of shirts. They do bags, they do boots, they do, they do socks, they do kind of everything. This bag is the one that a lot of the tour instructors used this year. And it's a sling-type bag, which, you know, comes across the body. I'm trying not to hit my mic, and it hangs very comfortably. It's very easy to spin it around, get access to whatever is inside. And I'll tell you this bag, it's kind of a minimalist bag, but I traveled all over the world with it. I took it to Europe with me earlier this year. I've enjoyed it. It's a bag that is, it doesn't have as many pockets and little like, you know, this container and this container, this container. It's just kinda got, it's got three pockets. They're very functional, they're very easy to use. It's got, if you wanna put your patches on there, you can, it can look tactical if you want it to, or doesn't have to look tactical at all. It's got a very easy access. I've got some patches in here as well. Easy access front pocket. If you're securing a helmet or something like that, you can actually open this all the way up and use these straps to secure something larger in there, a jacket, something like that. But, you know, easy access stuff, breath mints, what, my keys, little phone stand that I use on the airplane. You know, all that stuff that you might just need quick, easy access to. Then it's got its bigger pocket. Now, inside the big pocket, I said it only had three pouches and that's kind of true. It's got three zipper pockets on the outside and then it's got one you can see here is with the red, and that's where you could keep, I have some medical equipment in there, things like that. That's kind of the main pouch. And then it's got the pouch in the back, which has the kind of Vertx trademark. Grab this, pull it open very quickly if I had a gun in there. I don't usually keep a firearm in there, 'cause I prefer on-body carry, but I do keep body armor in here. So I've got, I think, the Guns for Everyone Gazette, a couple of copies to hand out there, but the Premier Body Armor panel. Premier Body Armor works very closely with Vertx to make sure that they have a panel that'll fit every bag they make. So again, super comfortable, super durable. I keep my laptop back there in that pouch as well, usually, when I'm traveling, carry on, walk around, whatever it is. This has been a great bag, and again, it's one of those things. When I ask the tour guys, the tour of instructors, I'll say, "Hey, what did you really like this year?" I got more feedback about a lot of different things from across the lines. Some people had, like for instance, never used the NLT SIRT pistols before. They thought those were great, but almost everybody thought that sling bag, after a week or two of using it, way, way cooler than just about any bag that they've carried, so I've enjoyed that. One of the other companies I wanna talk about today is ISOtunes Sport. ISOtunes Sport is a company that you've seen through Personal Defense Network a lot. They were not a tour sponsor this year, but they are absolutely behind us in everything we do. And they have provided a lot of these samples to our instructors just like Vertx did. So a lot of the clothing that you saw the instructors wearing this year, while they weren't a formal tour sponsor, they provided a lot of clothing. These guys have provided hearing protection to a lot of our contributors for a couple of years. And this model, the Advance Tactical is the one that is actually on a little bit of a loop, right, loops around your neck. You've got your earbuds that go in. This has been an incredibly useful tool for me because I generally just, I just go with foamies. Having a Bluetooth-enabled set of earbuds that also serves as hearing protection was something cool for me, because then it gave me a dual purpose. It gave me a reason to carry 'em around and have 'em around on the plane. But these are relatively big, relatively obvious that you're wearing them, right? And it's not the same as a little earbud that you might have just to listen to music on the plane when you're using your ISOtune Sport Advance Tactical, which looks tactical and is tactical. I'm really excited this year about the Caliber. This is kind of the latest, greatest, newest thing from ISOtune Sport. And these are the compact, fully in the ear, no lanyard, no string. They charge inside of this little case, and they are Bluetooth-enabled, so you can use these to listen to the movie on the airplane. I can listen to music, we can tie these in to all kinds of things through the Bluetooth 5.2. And these, not only are they more compact than the Advance Tactical, but they also have the updated, the 5.2 Bluetooth. They will run 13 hours, I think the Advance Tactical were something like 10 hours. These will run 13 hours on a single charge, which obviously is enough to get you through the day. They do have noise canceling ability, so any of the wind noise, the static noise, the regular kind of white noise in the background or on the airplane, it'll overcome all of that. So I've just started using these. I will have a more thorough report on them, you know, like all last year and into this year, the Advance Tactical have been great. They're, an outstanding tool for hearing protection, but also for everyday Bluetooth use, but a little bit big. These little more compact ones, more modern ones, and these are kind of the cutting-edge thing from ISOtune Sports, the Caliber, really looking forward to giving you a more thorough report on them. And of course, one of the things about... I gotta show you this. This is kind of almost ridiculous, the number of different configurations and sizes that iso to sports offer for the end cap, right? If you want the ribbed one, if you want the short, kind of stout one, you want the long skinny one, you want the little skinny one, whatever, you can customize these, which will also potentially increase the level of hearing protection that you get on the range, but they are customizable for comfort as well. So appreciate ISOtune Sport being a supporter of Personal Defense Network and our contributors kind of in every way, not just the tour. The last product tour sponsors that I wanna talk about is Primary Arms Online. And it's hard to call 'em a product in a way, because it's an online store. Not only do they have all of the great Primary Arms optics, which you've seen a lot of the tour instructors using throughout this year, they also have everything else. They have medical gear, they have gun parts for your gun-building, they have the bags, they have the clothing, they sell the Vertx clothing. I think pretty much almost everything that you see here, you can get at Primary Arms Online. So if you check out primaryarms.com, that store, you know, obviously we know them as one of the newest kind of up-and-coming, high-quality, very forward-thinking optics companies, but they're also full service retailer as well. So take a look at what Primary Arms has to offer. This year, it's kind of hard to talk about Primary Arms and not talk about their great optics. The 3x Prism with an etched reticle, that also illuminates and serves as a red dot, has been hands down the most popular, across the board, optic with all of our instructors that I've ever seen. You know, we've worked with a lot of different companies, a lot of different great companies out there. And everybody can find something at an optics company that they like. This year, everybody, all the tour instructors, when it came time to say, "Hey, is there anything you're looking for from Primary Arms?" 100%, "What about that 3x, the three-times Prism?" When I first looked at it, I was excited about it, but I was on a big range at one of these industry demo days out on the range with the 3x optic. When I brought it up, I thought, okay, that's cool, but what's gonna happen inside of a house, inside of a room distance? You know, the only fixed-power optic on a close-quarters defensive gun that I had any significant experience with was the ACOG, right? The old fixed four-power, relatively narrow field of view. A lot of people agreed too much magnification in a CQB or home defense, would be defense in a room, in a bedroom kind of environment, and that's why you saw a lot of people mounting smaller red dots up on top of an ACOG or next to an ACOG. The three-power, especially with the incredibly wide field of view that Primary Arms brings to the table with that MicroPrism, sort of fills that gap perfectly. It gives you the magnification you might want if you're outside of the home, if you're an armed professional, if you're in a competition environment, you wanna shoot 50, 100 meters, something like that, but inside the home it's not too much magnification. It's not overpowering. And this idea of an etched reticle, really, really important. So on the optics side, they have a 1x MicroPrism. They have the 3x MicroPrism, but again, focusing on Primary Arms Online, go check 'em out. When you hit the website right away, I think they give you a $20 discount coupon on your first order, whether it's a Vertx shirt, maybe you're gonna go pick that up, medical gear, we did a video on one of the great bags. They've got a very versatile quick-release mountable bag for medical equipment, emergency medical equipment at PAO Online, or PAO that I really like. We did a whole video on that at Personal Defense Network. Check that out. You're gonna find something there. If you go to Primary Arms Online at the store and you don't see something you want at a fair competitive price, I dunno, send me an email and we'll talk about it, because I'm always impressed when I go there. The pricing is, as I said, incredible, too. It's not, hey, we're a retailer. We're primarily selling optics. We got this other thing happening on the side. They really are focused on being a high-quality, reliable retailer for the whole community. This year we also did something a little different. I wanna finish out talking about them. We had a media sponsor this year at the Personal Defense Network training tour. And we've never had a media sponsor before. In a lot of ways we're a media company, right? We put out articles, we put out videos, we sell advertising, we've got the banners, we've got, you know, the sponsors of our live events, things like that. So we don't think of having a media partner to talk about the tour, but one of the ranges that I teach at, one of the guys who's a part of our instructor team is one of the owners, Toby, he hosts a show called RapidFire. So at Cape Gun Works in Massachusetts, with RapidFire, it's a daily show that is now syndicated, it's now put out around the country on the radio, and of course it's available online. And RapidFire Radio this year did a weekly update on the Personal Defense Network training tour. Go check those out. If you want to learn way more than I could possibly have talked about in this hour from the other instructors, I think I only did two or three shows the whole tour season, every week, somebody from the tour appeared on the RapidFire Radio show. Obviously they are archived, so check them out through social media or, you know, find RapidFire through your search engine. When you look at the collection of topics that he covers every day, it's incredibly informative from a legal standpoint, from a personal defense standpoint, from a gun review, gun curiosity, gun collector standpoint. The RapidFire Radio Show was a great media partner for us this year. I really appreciate also the extra work that all of our tour instructors do. They're not just teaching the regular classes, they're doing the social media, they're getting to know these products. They're sharing the product information with you and the students on the range, obviously, and one of the ways they did that this year was with their appearances on the show. And a lot of those were done while they were traveling, while they were running around the country doing these classes. They're also appearing on RapidFire Radio, so check those out. I'll probably on my social media over the next six months share maybe, maybe I'll do one a week, share those updates from the 2022 tour to get everybody excited about the 2023 tour, because we're already working on it. We're already setting the dates, we're already lining up the sponsors. A lot of these companies will be back. We might have one or two new companies to share with you. Always excited about the tour season. Love the fact that we've got these incredible educators aligned with us. Many of them obviously have said, yeah, absolutely, I'm in for next year. So between the sponsors and the instructors and the students, you know that's the thing that obviously, can't do these classes without you guys showing up, so I appreciate you tuning into this live. I appreciate you being an online consumer of Personal Defense Network information. Maybe you're a premium member, maybe you're at the gold level, but maybe you're just that free register or the casual browser. You never sign in. I don't really care. I'm just glad you're here. And when you're in the classes, I'm glad you're there. Give your support to these companies, give your support to the instructors. And thank you for watching the PDN 2022 Tour Wrap Up with me. Thanks.