170 – Training: because we are all too easy to kill

The term "tactical training" is tossed around quite a bit, but what does it really mean? And isn't any training used defensively by definition "tactical"?

People are relatively easy to kill. That may be a comforting notion if you’re defending yourself in a legally, morally acceptable deadly force encounter. It’s anything but if you consider that you are people too — meaning you’re just as vulnerable, if not more so, than your opponent. The term tactical training means more than what people tend to think it means. In fact, just the word training should mean more than it so often does.It should certainly be more than a colloquial term for sitting in a classroom or just putting rounds downrange.

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Here’s a question for you, and it’s not rhetorical. Isn’t any training that might affect your ability to successfully defend yourself by definition “tactical”?

If someone is serious about the carrying and potential use of a tool capable of taking someone’s life, that person should understand what training is and what it is not. Firearms-wise, for instance, it should be about more than just marksmanship and drawstrokes. It should be about when to “drag iron”, and when not too. It should be about test-firing your gear as much as it shooting your weapon. It should be about learning from your own mistakes (and achievements) as it is about other students’ mistakes and achievements.

And it should be about having fun.

Otherwise you may just be doing it wrong.

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Host: Daniel Shaw

Co-Host: Varg Freeborn

Introduction/Timeline: David Reeder