{"id":2787,"date":"2014-06-25T18:48:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T22:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2014-06-25T18:48:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T22:48:48","slug":"in-memoriam-louis-awerbuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/in-memoriam-louis-awerbuck\/","title":{"rendered":"IN MEMORIAM:  LOUIS AWERBUCK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, we lost one of our great modern firearms and self-defense instructors, Louis Awerbuck.  He had seen the elephant in South Africa, and came to the US to do what he did best: teach good people how to survive when other people were trying to murder them.  For many years lead instructor at Col. Jeff Cooper\u2019s famed Gunsite training center, Louie went on to establish his own school, the Yavapai Firearms Academy.<br \/>\nA master with pistol, revolver, and every kind of long gun, he was particularly noted for teaching the defensive use of the shotgun.  His trademark was innovative shooting scenarios that duplicated real-world difficulties in which firearms had to be employed to protect the innocent.  Awerbuck was one of the great trainers in his field, but more than that, he was a thinker. He understood better than most that in the word \u201cgunfight,\u201d the operative syllable was not \u201cgun.\u201d<br \/>\nIn person, Louis was an absolute gentleman with a broad knowledge of relevant history and philosophy.  He spoke with the same insight and dry wit that characterized his last page column in SWAT magazine, the one I always turned to first when my monthly issue came in the mail.<br \/>\nFortunately, he leaves a legacy of books and training videos for those who didn\u2019t have the opportunity to study under him personally.  A list of these can be found here:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&#038;field-keywords=Louis%20Awerbuck\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&#038;field-keywords=Louis%20Awerbuck<\/a> .<br \/>\nOf the many eulogies pouring in from the training world, I think the most memorable came from our mutual friend John Hearne, who wrote, \u201cThey say that when an old man dies, a library burns. We have lost Alexandria.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, we lost one of our great modern firearms and self-defense instructors, Louis Awerbuck. He had seen the elephant in South Africa, and came to the US to do what he did best: teach good people how to survive when other people were trying to murder them. For many years lead instructor at Col. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}