Personal Defense Training Log Book

Here's another important video from the Personal Defense Network. As you watch the videos and read the articles on the Personal Defense Network I hope it inspires you to attend classes and go out and get training. If you do, you're going to want to document that training. And that may be simply a collection of outlines or certificates that you put in a file or maybe even put on the wall in your office. But more importantly than that you're going to want to have a true log book a collection that documents all of your training maybe even a place to keep contact information even course notes.

And that's why I got together with friends in the industry and came up with the training log book project. This was actually inspired by the hard cover training log books of some European soldiers that came to one of my classes. They had documented all of the training from their professional career from start to finish. I wish I had a book like that, and if you're just starting your training career now's the perfect time. If you're in the middle of training jump in and start documenting now.

The training log book actually offers you an opportunity to write down where you took the course how much the course costs whether or not you got a certificate, and of course, the topics that were covered the hours, the instructor, his contact information. And something that's really important to me classmates and their contact information. I really know that I can go to my book now, or, in the past, I could go to a class roster and call someone I met in a class who might be able to help me out or just let them know about another training opportunity. And then of course, the instructor gets to sign off and tell you something maybe to improve or make a comment and using the spot for you to talk about what equipment you might've used during that class. This area is great for notes, diagrams, maybe a class picture that you want to paste in there later.

When you use the training log book you may find opportunities to attend classes like this one which I attended a lecture on psychological effects on training, and maybe some of the psychological effects of the equipment and training you've had on juries. And this was taught by Glen Meyer. It was taught here at the US Shooting Academy during the Rangemaster Tactical Conference. And as you can see for this particular one I took a lot of notes. Maybe another time I'll attend a presentation that isn't going to have as many notes and maybe I'll just stick a logo or a class picture in to remind me where I was when I took that course.

How you use the training log book is up to you. But some of the inspiration for that use might actually come from the beginning of the log book where we've had over 30 instructors give their advice for what you might want to think about if you're going to engage in defensive or tactical training. You may not want this log book but you should have a log book to document your training. You might even find some places in the back to write down when and where you read articles or watched videos. Hopefully it will be here at the Personal Defense Network as often as possible.

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