August 10, 2021
Don’t Train To Die I vividly recall training at the former Blackwater Firearms Training facility (now called Academi Training Center) in Moyock, North Carolina. We were engaged in simunition training inside a shoot-house. One member of our team was shot with a simunition round and he stopped fighting. The instructor
July 13, 2021
Developing Mental Toughness to Survive the Fight of Your Life This article is part 2 of a series of articles about mental toughness. Part 2 focuses on information about perfectly executing gun handling and marksmanship skills to survive the fight of your life. The Spartan Firearms Training
December 23, 2018
This article addresses the need to get yourself in shape so you can survive an armed or unarmed deadly force encounter because stronger people are harder to kill. You will not find specific exercises to develop your strength or aerobic capacity. Rather, you will read about why getting in shape
June 16, 2018
Introduction Part 1 of this post explored the idea of the combative mind. Colonel Jeff Cooper suggested that the combative mind is a combination of marksmanship, handgun manipulation, and mind-set. Of the three parts, mind-set is the most important and that idea was discussed in depth. Developing the
June 13, 2018
“A gun is good. A knife is good. A stick is better than nothing at all, and your hands, arms, legs and muscles are to be relied on when nothing else can be. But, without your brain, without thinking and without cognizant awareness you are little more than an