I am not a big boy
I don’t care if you give it a name like “big boy rules”, I am not taking a training class where bullets are zipping by me.
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October 5th, 2010 at 9:49 am
Kathy Jackson has a post up concerning this that is full of so much win it hurts.
October 5th, 2010 at 10:19 am
great link there Tam – both to your post & kathy’s (i liked borepatch’s comment on yours).
But i’m currently in the ‘no thanks’ camp.
I have contemplated similar one-on-one training with a VERY EXPERIENCED instructor and someone I’ve seen training and worked with for over a year – but it’s still at the contemplation stage. I certainly wouldn’t be signing up for a class advertised in the back of a mag for this sort of stuff.
October 5th, 2010 at 10:21 am
You act like that is not what the Marines do everyday in combat. The real training starts when your boots hit the ground in the sand hell…. All this civie stuff is moot until you are shot at by people who want to kill you….
October 5th, 2010 at 10:35 am
Mall ninjaism to the nth power. whatever.
October 5th, 2010 at 10:35 am
If you get in a prolonged fire fight in the civie world with it being you or them situation then you have reached big boy status. Until it is just fun and games even if you get shot at by friendlies…
October 5th, 2010 at 10:59 am
Is simple. If bullets go flying past me, is real world, and I get to shoot back. If not, must be back in Military or getting paid to be Private Contractor and am being paid to receive that training. You want me to pay YOU to Shoot past ME? What you smoking, boy? Tell you what, you go first, I’ll shoot past you. You trust me enough to bring Guns and Ammo to your class, you must trust me enough to not shoot you in the back, right?
October 5th, 2010 at 11:19 am
There’s no way in hell I’m paying someone so I can take a class where I’m downrange with hot pieces of lead flying past me.
I don’t care what big boy words they use to explain how uber tacticool it is, I’ll pass. I like my body sans bullet holes.
October 5th, 2010 at 11:48 am
I wonder how many people that take these “big boy” classes, and get all tacticaled up for them, later bitch about SWAT teams being too military?
October 5th, 2010 at 11:59 am
Laughingdog,
Oh, there’s hella overlap.
Which is doubly funny because, at least around here, some of the best training is hosted by the Boone Co. Sheriff’s Dept. and, depending on the class, as many as half of the students are cops, some of them SWAT…
October 5th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
John Smith, I don’t think you understand the topic at all.
October 5th, 2010 at 1:56 pm
And just to show stupidity is international.
http://www.ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com/2010/10/04/front-sights-monday-blog-should-i-hire-this-instructor/
By the accent, I think they are from Colombia or somewhere nearby
October 5th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Whatever it is, it’s not training, no matter if they think it is.
October 5th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
From the Rachel Corrie school of dozer driving, to the Fruit of the Boom Airplane Bomber demonstration, to the also-rans of the Darwin Awards and Tosh.0, may I suggest there is a better way of doing things?
October 5th, 2010 at 7:02 pm
Any class that involves individuals standing downrange while firearms are being discharged also involves me walking out the door, up-front costs or not.
October 6th, 2010 at 8:17 am
Guys, this is what I like to call “making evolution a working proposition”, and as long as I can’t convince anyone that having sabertooths around to eat idiots is a good idea, these courses will have to do. Just Damn!