Tag: Chris Norville

Pistol Performance Revisited

               All who partake in firearms training face limitations, the biggest two being money and time.  I can think of no higher compliment for an instructor than to train with them repeatedly.  There are some instructors that I have trained with several times and felt it time well spent every time.  However, taking the same…
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September 30, 2020 0

Mastering the Art of Instruction

Tom Givens of Rangemaster has been a professional firearms instructor for over four decades now.  The number of people Tom has trained to defend themselves with firearms is hard to fathom.  He also has proof his methods work from students who have had to apply his teaching to defend themselves.  However, I believe Tom’s impact…
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May 10, 2020 0

The Jedi Way

I recently attended a Red Dot Class taught by Scott Jedlinski, also known as Jedi, owner of Modern Samurai Project. Scott is a relative newcomer to the training industry, but he has developed a well-deserved reputation as the red dot guru. I have listened to him talk about his philosophy of training on podcasts and…
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February 15, 2020 0

The Defensive Paradigm

     I recently attended the Rangemaster class Establishing a Dominance Paradigm. This title seems less than clear cut compared to the normal offerings in the training world.  Normally we see things that are much more straight forward and descriptive such as Handgun Level whatever.  I have taken a great deal of classes of those types…
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January 11, 2020 0