{"id":3674,"date":"2016-04-16T11:55:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T15:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3674"},"modified":"2016-04-16T11:55:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T15:55:55","slug":"busmans-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/busmans-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSMAN\u2019S HOLIDAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Wiktionary:Main_Page\" target=\"_blank\">Wikitionary<\/a> (yes, that\u2019s a word and a thing) defines \u201cbusman\u2019s holiday\u201d thus: \u201cFirst recorded in 1893 in the UK. The idea is that a\u00a0busman, to go off on a holiday, would take an excursion by\u00a0bus, thereby engaging in a similar activity to his work.\u201d\u00a0 Whenever I hear it, I channel to the Mark Twain quote I first heard from my old friend and colleague, the great police trainer Ed Nowicki: \u201cIf you love your job, you never have to actually <em>work <\/em>a day in your life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Evil Princess and I are off to Rogers Shooting School in Ellijay, Georgia for the next week, to take their advanced handgun course.\u00a0 Why? I learned a few things when I was a little kid, to wit:<\/p>\n<p>If you aren\u2019t good at taking orders, you probably won\u2019t be good at giving them\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026if you can\u2019t read, you can\u2019t write\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026and if you don\u2019t learn, you can\u2019t teach, at least not very well for very long.<\/p>\n<p>During first quarter 2016, I was able to spend a week learning at the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association annual conference in Chicagoland, and three days at Tom Givens\u2019 superb Rangemaster Tactical Conference held this year at the Memphis Police Academy in Tennessee.\u00a0 I taught at both, but at the Rogers school, our only scheduled \u201ctraining for US\u201d in 2<sup>nd<\/sup> quarter 2016, I get to be purely in student mode. We\u2019ve ordered a case of ammo per day for each of us. WOOT!<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been wanting to take Bill\u2019s legendary course and skill test for a very long time, and a confluence of scheduling finally allows it. I\u2019ve known Bill for decades, shot against him in his heyday when he was on the \u201cpro tour,\u201d and don\u2019t remember ever beating him. Those are the kind of people you can really learn from in the given discipline. Ain\u2019t gonna even try to predict how I\u2019ll do, but if I get my Annual Humility Requirement all in five days, well, that won\u2019t be a bad thing either. I\u2019ve always learned more from screwing up than I did from doing things right, and learning is our purpose in going.<\/p>\n<p>What about y\u2019all? Any training plans for this year? Observations on training in general? Discussion is welcome here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Rogers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3675\" src=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Rogers-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Rogers\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Rogers-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Rogers.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikitionary (yes, that\u2019s a word and a thing) defines \u201cbusman\u2019s holiday\u201d thus: \u201cFirst recorded in 1893 in the UK. The idea is that a\u00a0busman, to go off on a holiday, would take an excursion by\u00a0bus, thereby engaging in a similar activity to his work.\u201d\u00a0 Whenever I hear it, I channel to the Mark Twain quote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-training"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674","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=3674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/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=3674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}