The Evil Princess and I just got home from a couple of ten-plus-hour weekend days training with Gabe White in a class hosted by Gordon Despot in Lakeland, Florida.\u00a0 It hit 97 degrees both days, but we all still had fun and learned a lot.<\/p>\n
Gabe\u2019s signature class is called Pistol Shooting Solutions.\u00a0 His approach is succinctly summarized in his motto: \u201ctechnical excellence supports tactical preparedness.\u201d\u00a0 You can read about his background and see him in action in numerous videos at his website, http:\/\/www.gabewhitetraining.com\/<\/a>, but basically he has taken a lifelong interest and deep study of self-defense ranging from martial arts to guns to defensive force law, and combined them with his own extremely high skill in both shooting and teaching.<\/p>\n There are many talented communicators who don\u2019t really know their topic in depth, and many skilled practitioners who don\u2019t know how to teach.\u00a0 Gabe is that rare combination of deep knowledge, demonstrable skill at a very high level, and<\/em> the ability to communicate efficiently and articulately.\u00a0 Unlike so many who proclaim, \u201cThis is The Doctrine,\u201d he gives a lucid explanation of every subtlety of every technique he shares.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not a class for beginners. You want a very solid skill level before you get there.\u00a0 Master and Grandmaster shooters come to Gabe to hone the skills they\u2019ve already developed, but he sees the biggest improvement in Class C through Class A shooters who seek higher levels of speed with accuracy.\u00a0 Almost all the shooting (bring a thousand rounds) is two-handed, and every bit of it is eye level aimed fire.\u00a0 The name of one of his most famous drills reflects his focus on the basics: \u201cSights, Meet Trigger.\u201d<\/p>\n Each day had multiple \u201cshooter against shooter\u201d drills, what he calls asymmetrical situations in which Shooter A is on one side of the replicated \u201cfight\u201d with one set of tasks, and Shooter B is on the other side, tasked with neutralizing targets representing Shooter A.\u00a0 Incentivization is good.<\/p>\n I won\u2019t tease you with blow by blow details, but I\u2019ll say this: the EP and I have each won our share of state and regional shooting championship titles, and we both got a lot of value out of those two exhausting days with Gabe and the four cases of ammo devoured.\u00a0 I think you will, too.\u00a0 Highly <\/em>recommended. Gabe recommends you use your defensive pistol and gives incentives to draw from concealment.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s Gabe making a point about shooting on the run, with his Gen5 Glock 17:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n