Chance
05-08-2017, 05:51 PM
He was threatening to do so a number of years ago, but I think as the Obama years became more and more tumultuous, he felt a duty to stay around. Now that the pendulum is swinging in the other direction, he's making good on his promise (http://www.combatshootingandtactics.com/published/info-letters/17/CSATUpdate_May17.pdf).
I was at my fourth CSAT class this weekend (which was an excellent course, as is everything Paul puts his mind into), and that was the main thread of questions he fielded. "Semi-retirement" is probably the better term. He doesn't want to get out of the business completely, but the volume of courses he has to teach in order to keep the facility in the green, along with the overhead of just keeping the grass mowed and other menial tasks, is more than he's prepared to do.
The bottom line is that CSAT, as a facility, is going to be sold. Based on the nature of the sale, Paul's considering a number of options. If whoever purchases the facility chooses to turn it into a regional training center, Paul's prepared to stay on as a consultant, or even to periodically lease the land back to continue teaching. If that's not a tenable option, he may hit the road every once in a while to teach when/where he wants to. He's also considering setting up his own website and periodically publishing his own videos that address things from both a student's, and an instructor's, perspective (he had planned to make an instructor series of videos before Fuckwad Fernando (https://pistol-forum.com/showthread.php?21239-Panteao-Hasn-t-Paid-Paul-Howe) screwed him over).
Most interesting to me was that Paul was loosely throwing around the idea of trying to establish some sort of standard in the training industry. Probably not something as elaborate as a "Tactical Trainer's Association," but maybe something as simple as Paul training with other instructors out of his own pocket, and then doing a no-nonsense, podcast-style review of the course. I don't know about y'all, but I would happily chip in $10 a month to listen to that.
So I'm really happy that Paul is moving on to do what makes him happy. But this is a major loss for the for-real folks: Paul teaching his curriculum at his facility is about the best training a civilian could hope for. Just this weekend, Paul put on a long-distance pistol course that would have been difficult to teach anywhere else. If you want to train with him, hurry: I already reserved a spot in his October instructor class, because it might be the last one he ever teaches.
I was at my fourth CSAT class this weekend (which was an excellent course, as is everything Paul puts his mind into), and that was the main thread of questions he fielded. "Semi-retirement" is probably the better term. He doesn't want to get out of the business completely, but the volume of courses he has to teach in order to keep the facility in the green, along with the overhead of just keeping the grass mowed and other menial tasks, is more than he's prepared to do.
The bottom line is that CSAT, as a facility, is going to be sold. Based on the nature of the sale, Paul's considering a number of options. If whoever purchases the facility chooses to turn it into a regional training center, Paul's prepared to stay on as a consultant, or even to periodically lease the land back to continue teaching. If that's not a tenable option, he may hit the road every once in a while to teach when/where he wants to. He's also considering setting up his own website and periodically publishing his own videos that address things from both a student's, and an instructor's, perspective (he had planned to make an instructor series of videos before Fuckwad Fernando (https://pistol-forum.com/showthread.php?21239-Panteao-Hasn-t-Paid-Paul-Howe) screwed him over).
Most interesting to me was that Paul was loosely throwing around the idea of trying to establish some sort of standard in the training industry. Probably not something as elaborate as a "Tactical Trainer's Association," but maybe something as simple as Paul training with other instructors out of his own pocket, and then doing a no-nonsense, podcast-style review of the course. I don't know about y'all, but I would happily chip in $10 a month to listen to that.
So I'm really happy that Paul is moving on to do what makes him happy. But this is a major loss for the for-real folks: Paul teaching his curriculum at his facility is about the best training a civilian could hope for. Just this weekend, Paul put on a long-distance pistol course that would have been difficult to teach anywhere else. If you want to train with him, hurry: I already reserved a spot in his October instructor class, because it might be the last one he ever teaches.