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AAR: Crash Shooting, 2-3 June 2018
AAR: Crash Shooting, 2-3 June 2018, Ron Sable, Doswell VA
This was a two day class that covered one handed shooting and entangled gun fighting.
The morning of first day consisted of Introductions, Safety Brief, instruction on how to draw, shoot, and reholster your pistol all one handed. In the afternoon we covered Managing Social Contacts, and various techniques based on Greco Roman wrestling that applied to being in a physical confrontation where the parties are armed.
The second day we had to contend with some heavy rain in the morning, so we started out indoors and expanded upon the Greco Roman wrestling techniques we learned. Once the rain calmed down to a moderate amount we went out to the range and continued building on with the one handed shooting we learned the day before. In the late afternoon we culminated all the training with a final force on force exercise that involved protective helmets and simunition pistols.
The class material was thoughtfully combined from Ron's Special Operations experiences and his extensive training history with Shivworks. I've been to several Shivworks courses and the quality of the material and instruction of Crash Shooting is certainly on par with them. Ron's insights into the topics were very interesting.
In many shooting classes I’ve been to one handed shooting material is presented, but very little time is spent on it. I thought it was really awesome that almost the entirety of the shooting portion of this course was dedicated to one handed work. I feel like it drastically improved my ability in that regard and it fits into the context of fighting as well, where one hand might be occupied with something.
I’ve known Ron for several years, so I was really excited to see that he is offering open enrollment courses. I’d absolutely recommend this course to anyone who is serious about self-defense. I'd also like to thank Keaton Pearson for hosting the course, along with the range facility. High marks all around!