At this year’s Rangemaster Tactical Conference one class I took and particularly enjoyed was taught by Simon Golob, who focused on the importance of “cold shot training,” testing ourselves as to how we can shoot without a warmup. Like in, ya know, real life. I was not disappointed.
Simon is the man who took over our mutual friend Todd Louis Green’s excellent blog site, www.pistol-training.com after Todd’s untimely death. I can’t imagine a better person to have done so. Here, from there, is Simon’s own take on the cold shot: https://pistol-training.com/cold-shooting-ability/.
What’s more, we have the unusual ability to see an instructor’s side of being at Tac-Con, again from pistol-training.com: https://pistol-training.com/tac-con-2026/ .
I had the privilege of being Simon’s first outside instructor, way back when he was a young cop on NYPD, the beginning of a career that would take him to high performance levels with a major Federal agency from which he has now retired and is available to teach you. (Info at, you guessed it, pistol-training.com.)
He was so good in his early years that at one of Lethal Force Institute’s anniversary shoots I invited him to come as a guest instructor. He was awesome with his duty gun, then the NYPD Glock 19 with the hideous twelve-pound NY-2 trigger. Today he shoots a double action HK and can tell you good reasons why.
If his last name rings a bell it’s because he’s the husband of champion shooter Julie Golob. Google will get you to interviews and lectures featuring both of them.
Thanks again to Tom and Lynn Givens and their team for making the Tactical Conference happen.