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It happens to the best of us. We have an injury, or maybe we stop making progress. Perhaps we just lose motivation to continue training. Regardless of the situation, sometimes our best laid plans for working out get derailed. Here are some tips to help you get back on track. 1. DO LESS Yes, you […]
“I have always considered myself a student first. There are a few people who have had a profound influence on the way I have developed my own expression. I have been focusing on a very specific methodology recently. Very specific skill set with a very unorthodox approach. It has been an interesting experience for me […]
(Article originally published on Spotter Up by Will Rodriguez) Marathon Targets likely impressed me the most of all the displays at Ft. Benning’s 2016 Maneuver Conference. It can potentially revolutionize our small arms ranges and small unit training up to company level while tremendously increasing our Soldiers and Marines marksmanship capabilities. Today, unless our troops […]
Interval training can make you really fast, and prepared for your selection evals, but mind your conditioning. If you have a significant number of miles on your legs and want faster eval times, or just want to be a faster runner, then suffer through this workout and seriously watch yourself improve! If you have a […]
After years of fighting in deserts, more Marines are sharpening their jungle warfare skills — and the training is intensifying. As more Marines are tapped for missions in tropical locales like the Philippines, Honduras and Australia, the Corps has boosted the number of leathernecks that move through jungle training. Over the last two years, more […]
For the vast majority of the population no matter how good our eyesight is there will come a point in our lives when it will begin to decline. Usually this occurs around the time we enter our fifties. This was the case with me I didn’t have perfect vision but it was good. As I […]
In this day and age, between training schools and various competitions, there are any number of places out there that run gun games of varying practicality. Some, like the USPSA competition, are pretty blatantly competitions that drop much of the practical aspects of shooting. Others, like IDPA, are more practical in their outlook to a […]
We may not be able to plan for everything that is uncertain in life, but we are capable of increasing our levels of awareness and preparedness. Economic collapse, storms of biblical proportions, and zombie attacks are not as likely as unfortunate events that happen in our day-to-day existence. There are simple steps we can take […]
A lot of people have asked me about how they could increase their survivability in an active shooter situation. The reality is sometimes you can’t win and that’s something you should be training for. Train for the worst day of your life and hopefully when it happens it’s nowhere near the level you trained for. If […]
The RST Steel target is multi use target produced by Renaissance Steel Research of  Wilmington, North Carolina. They are a Veteran owned company that produces more than thirty different steel targets for all styles of shooters. The RST in the name stands for Ready, Ship, Target and it’s the companies hottest selling target to date. […]
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