Training Summits

Everybody. Don Edwards here from Green Line Tactical and today for a minute or two, I want to talk to you about something that I think you, you would be interested in and we call them several different things. You'd be called a training conference or symposium or summit. A lot of different names for them, depending on who's putting it on or maybe even what the, you know, what the, the venue is like and stuff like that. But what I'm talking about is the idea of a training event where you can go to it and you can sign up for multiple different types of courses or training seminars or classes, whatever may be going on there or whatever it is. So, for example, maybe it's a three day long training event or a training weekend where you get to choose from every four hours to round Rob and rotate into something else. And it could be a defensive shooting summit. It could be, it could be seminars about home defense, it could be all kinds of different things. These are really becoming more and more popular around the country, especially in the tactical and defensive shooting world. It's not new when it comes to education and learning various industries and professions do this all the time. So it's kind of a progression for the shooting world to start doing the same thing or something similar. Like I said, there's several out there, I'll use one that I'm putting on. For example, some of you guys may know me that night vision and low light shooting and tactics is kind of the flagship of my company and I'm putting on one this November and we're calling it the Night Operations Summit. And the way we have it set up is every night, there's going to be different blocks of instruction that you can sign up for. So you sign up for the entire summit and then you go to the link page, the sign up page and you choose from the menu of which classes you want to take each night and it's going to be, it is night vision heavy, but we design the curriculum and the courses so that if you don't have any night vision and you want to take a low light classes, ie flashlight based, you can have something to do every night and not even have to worry about the night vision goggles. So for example, if you want to take, I'm teaching a low light pistol one night, I'm teaching a low light car bean one night, there's going to be low light tactics going on. There's going to be some low light gun handling courses going on every night. One of my instructors specializes in that. Um, so you don't have to have, be a night vision guy and show up with 10 $20,000 worth of night vision gear to get something out of this. But you can also learn a lot about night vision if you're thinking about that, but it's going to be lots of fun and camaraderie, I also have invited several, not lots but several select sponsors that either I do stuff with or their product that they manufacture or sell has a lot to do with the night time stuff. So these are guys that if I didn't invite them to be sponsors, they would have been paid students themselves anyways. And there's going to be media people out there too as well. So that's an example of one of these things. It's not just an educational opportunity. However, I'm focused really hard on that, but it's also going to be a great weekend of camaraderie. A lot of people that know each other already or that have maybe heard of each other, but haven't ever met each other. We're probably going to have 100 between 102 100 people out there for the long weekend. So it's going to be a long weekend of education, learning, sharing and fellowship. So that's just an example. That's the one I'm putting together and doing in November. There are others around the country that go on. There are other people that put them on. There are technical conferences, there are defensive conferences that are run all over the country by very reputable people. So I recommend you look into some of that stuff because you get a lot of bang for the buck, you get to pick and choose and sample either subject matter that you're not sure about or that you've always wanted to check out or even that instructor that you've never really had a chance to go train with. But now a couple of those guys or gals are at this one event and you get a chance to go spend some time with them. So check out things like that if you're interested in the low light and the, and the night vision stuff, check out the night summit. All the information is on my website at green line tat dot com and I'm Don Edwards. Thanks a lot.