Pointing “guns” at other people is not always inherently wrong… even outside of defensive use.

Today, I had a long email back & forth with a woman who was concerned about how her son was handling AIRSOFT guns. In the convo, she asked about getting him some REAL Firearms Training. I said that would be great, I suggested she start by looking in her area for an NRA Instructor and …

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I.C.E. Training Launches Reality-Based Training Instructor Program for Civilian Personal Defense

I.C.E. Training is teaming up with PDT Technologies Launch Reality-Based Training Program for Civilian Personal Defense Market! Program Promotes Higher Training Standards by Incorporating Military/Law Enforcement Methods in Mainstream Defensive Firearms Instruction ALAMO, Calif. – November 18, 2013 – I.C.E. Training, one of the nation’s leading defensive training companies, and Practical Defense Training Technologies (PDT), …

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I.C.E. is sending 300 Free Spree Attacker Response DVDs to Teachers & Schools

In December 2012, I.C.E. Training Company developed the School Attacker Response  Course to provide teachers, schools and students with the basis of a proactive response plan for killers in schools. The development of SARC was precipitated by questions from I.C.E. Alumni who were parents of school age children in the wake of the Sandy Hook …

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Kids and Airsoft Guns… Safety, Education & Parenting.

There has been a lot of talk about airsoft guns over the last week since the tragedy in Santa Rosa, California. While we do not have all the facts we need to be able to judge the actions of the officer involved in that shooting  (and we may never have them), we can learn some …

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Association of Defensive Shooting Instructors launches Online Courses!

After several months of development, the Association of Defensive Shooting Instructors (ADSI) has launched it’s Virtual School and first distance education course for instructors. This course, on how to teach Intuitive Sighted Fire, is the first of what will eventually be the highest quality collection of Defensive Shooting Instructor Development Courses on the Internet. It …

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Combat Focus® Shooting: Origins and Early Development

Combat Focus® Shooting: The Origin & Early Development The Combat Focus® Shooting program is an intuitive shooting program designed to help the student be more efficient in the context of a dynamic critical incident. “CFS” is the flagship program of I.C.E. Training Company and the cornerstone of all the firearms instruction that I do. (CFS …

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Combat Focus® Shooting & RockTape® announce collaboration on new program for Shooting Instructors.

I am very excited about a program that we’ve been working on for a few months now:  A collaboration with the Kinesiology Tape manufacturer RockTape® to create a program that makes learning intuitive shooting more efficient and assists defensive shooting instructors on the range. The therapeutic value of “taping” is well known in regard to …

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Training Communities: Build & Support Them!

It should be obvious that it is in all of our interests to build and support communities of responsible gun owners who train for the defensive use of their firearms. While we hear a lot about bringing new shooters to the range, especially encouraging the participation of children in the shooting sports and introducing women …

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Do I think the Gov’t should be involved in setting Firearms Training Standards? No.

In the aftermath of a national story about a local instructor in Ohio who fired a round into a student’s arm in a classroom (and apparently had also negligently shot a round into a little girl a few decades ago), I was asked to comment on the possible value of the government setting standards for …

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