{"id":5152,"date":"2018-10-26T14:46:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T18:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5152"},"modified":"2018-10-26T17:20:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T21:20:14","slug":"congratulations-to-a-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/congratulations-to-a-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"CONGRATULATIONS TO A CHAMPION"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5155\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5155\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Wes_01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5155\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Wes_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Wes_01.jpg 766w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Wes_01-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wes Lagomarsino, left, receives congratulations as Stock Service Revolver Champion.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019d like to congratulate one of my advanced graduates and class hosts, Wes Lagomarsino, who just <a href=\"https:\/\/practiscore.com\/results\/new\/68102?q_division=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won the stock service revolver champion title<\/a> at the Western Championships of IDPA, the International Defensive Pistol Association.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5156\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5156\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Wes_02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Wes_02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Wes_02.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Wes_02-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wes won with this Smith &amp; Wesson Model 686 SSR .357 Magnum, using .38 Specia ammo and inside the waistband scabbard from Precision Holster.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I encourage all my students to give IDPA a try (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.idpa.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.idpa.com<\/a>).\u00a0 It\u2019s the \u201cconcealed carry sport,\u201d and an excellent environment for skill testing.\u00a0 In addition to me, Wes also hosts national IDPA champ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shooting-performance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Seeklander<\/a>, an awesome instructor, every year.\u00a0 Mike had also told Wes he needed to get into competition, and I\u2019m glad he finally listened!<\/p>\n<p>Wes is an excellent instructor in his own right, and it\u2019s always a pleasure teaching with him as a guest instructor at his school in California, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lfiguns.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lagomarsino\u2019s Firearms Institute<\/a>.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be doing a <a href=\"https:\/\/massadayoobgroup.com\/event\/mag40-8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MAG-40<\/a> class with him next month in Sacramento. We still have a few openings. Info on that and Wes\u2019 own classes can be found here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5154\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mas_Wes_01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5154\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mas_Wes_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mas_Wes_01.jpg 734w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mas_Wes_01-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Mas_Wes_01-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mas and Wes, both shown here with 9mm Glock 19s, teach together annually in California.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019d like to congratulate one of my advanced graduates and class hosts, Wes Lagomarsino, who just won the stock service revolver champion title at the Western Championships of IDPA, the International Defensive Pistol Association. I encourage all my students to give IDPA a try (www.idpa.com).\u00a0 It\u2019s the \u201cconcealed carry sport,\u201d and an excellent environment for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5152","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\/5152","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=5152"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5162,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152\/revisions\/5162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}