{"id":5011,"date":"2018-07-05T23:17:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T03:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5011"},"modified":"2018-07-05T23:24:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T03:24:22","slug":"on-the-road-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/on-the-road-again\/","title":{"rendered":"ON THE ROAD AGAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"

People ask me how an old fart like me can handle traveling to teach and testify all the time. It\u2019s simple, really.<\/p>\n

My generation grew up with the mantra \u201cLive fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s already too late for me to live up to the last two of those imperatives, so living fast is all I have left.<\/p>\n

This month we\u2019ll be teaching our signature 40-hour MAG-40 course for law-abiding armed citizens (http:\/\/massadayoobgroup.com<\/a>) \u00a0in both Idaho and Washington state. We do these as a rule as a four-day immersion course, ten hours per day, encompassing a weekend. Why? Because we found that for most candidates, the tough part was getting a whole week off work that didn\u2019t involve a vacation for the whole family, but anyone serious could get two days and a weekend. The Washington class is full, but there are still a very few openings in the Idaho class for anyone interested.<\/p>\n

While in the Pacific Northwest, we\u2019ll be taking a class in Active Mass Murder Interdiction at Firearms Academy of Seattle (still a few openings, www.firearmsacademy.com<\/a>) , and staying for the regional Rangemaster Tactical Conference there.\u00a0 Hosted by Tom Givens, it brings together a conclave of top self-defense instructors (shooting, hand to hand, courtroom, etc) from all over the country. I\u2019ll be teaching for a few hours of it, and soaking up knowledge the rest of the time.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing like teaching to make you appreciate learning. Info at www.rangemaster.com<\/a>, still a very few openings there too.<\/p>\n

If July is PNW month, August is our Northeast month. We have MAG-40s in Connecticut (short drive north from NYC area), southern New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania (Harrisburg). Our massadayoobgroup.com website will get you to any of them.<\/p>\n

September will see us teaching in Wichita, Kansas and Brooklyn, Michigan (MAG-40s also), and rounding out the month delivering (and absorbing) continuing legal education training for attorneys \u201cout west.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, there\u2019s learning as well as teaching in there. Actually, the teaching itself is<\/em> learning: it\u2019s rare that I teach a class and don\u2019t learn something from one or more of the students. I had the privilege of serving for nineteen years as chair of the firearms\/deadly force training committee for ASLET, the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers.\u00a0 ASLET\u2019s motto was, Qui doscet, disket. <\/em>\u201cHe who teaches, learns.\u201d<\/p>\n

I figured out real early in my life that someone who didn\u2019t read wouldn\u2019t be able to write well, and that someone who didn\u2019t keep learning probably wouldn\u2019t be able to teach well.<\/p>\n

We finished June with an awesome MAG-180 class, so called because it completes 180 hours of training with me and my team. Hosted by master instructor David Maglio (far right, front row) it encompassed 60 hours, police qualifications shot at four times required speed, and instructor certification in handgun retention and disarming, and the Persuader mini-baton. It is an honor for us to teach committed students like these.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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People ask me how an old fart like me can handle traveling to teach and testify all the time. It\u2019s simple, really. My generation grew up with the mantra \u201cLive fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse.\u201d It\u2019s already too late for me to live up to the last two of those imperatives, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5011","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\/5011","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5011"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5016,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions\/5016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}