Interconnectedness of Defensive Firearm Training

Here comes another important tip from the Personal Defense Network. I wanna talk about the interconnectedness of defensive firearms training. And what that means is really ultimately, consistency. A lot of times I'll talk to instructors who are teaching a technique different from something that I teach in regard to defensive firearms. Let's say, a ready position, or maybe we're gonna talk about how we train to engage multiple targets, or reloads, or any other single technique.

And eventually, the conversation about that technique has to include the interconnectedness of that technique to the larger body of work that anybody's teaching. In other words, if we're talking about how to do a reload, and specifically where to keep a firearm during a reload, inevitably for me, we have to talk about presentation from the holster, as well as where we're gonna have the firearm when we're assessing our environment. Where is our general ready position? If we don't know the answers to all those questions, then the answer to, where are we gonna do our reload? Really becomes somewhat irrelevant.

All handgun manipulations should be interconnected. Remember, the C in the ICE Training Company logo stands for consistency. Consistency is an incredibly important contributor to efficiency, both in terms of our training modules, so that our modules all work well together, and in terms of our training resources, so that we don't have to train to present the gun from down here by our belt, from up here at our chest, and from up here in front of our face. We're just gonna learn to present the gun from this area. Because in this area, I can have a consistency of where I do my reloads, where I solve my malfunction problems, where I come through when I present from the holster, where I am when I'm assessing my environment.

I have an interconnectedness of all of those different techniques into one system. If your instructor isn't giving you a complete system, if he's really just giving you a set of non-connected techniques that don't integrate well together, that don't reinforce each other, that don't contribute to your efficiency by being consistent with one another, you really need to challenge the whys of all of those techniques. Chances are, we're gonna figure out that the better way to do things is the consistent way to do things, because all gun handling is interconnected. Be sure to check out the Personal Defense Network for more important tips, just like that one.