{"id":7577,"date":"2022-12-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7577"},"modified":"2022-12-28T09:50:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T14:50:22","slug":"end-of-year-seen-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/end-of-year-seen-from-here\/","title":{"rendered":"END OF YEAR, SEEN FROM HERE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gonna get personal here\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finished my 2022 teaching year \u201ctenning out,\u201d with all 18 students in our third-level MAG-120 class giving us the top \u201cten out of ten\u201d possible rating on their final evaluation. It concluded forty-plus hours of high speed shooting, triple-speed qualifications with handguns, police-type qualifications with rifles and shotguns, and an introduction to fully automatic weapons.&nbsp; Many hours were spent grappling, and each 120 graduate \u2013 the number signifying the minimum total hours that students at that level have spent with us \u2013 earned certificates in handgun retention and disarming, and in the use of the Kubotan\/Persuader type mini-baton. In the class photo, you can see the dummy handguns used for the belly-to-belly shooting and the elements of disarming the criminal opponent, and keeping HIM from disarming YOU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201cten-out\u201d is simply proof that if you do anything for half a century or so, you can get it right. I began teaching weapons and deadly force in 1972, and kept up the continuing learning process the whole time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I owe the great reviews to MAG\u2019s awesome staff, pictured here with the students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We teach all over the country (<a href=\"http:\/\/massadayoobgroup.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/massadayoobgroup.com<\/a>).&nbsp; Shameless plug there\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This last class of the year completed on December 9, giving the Evil Princess and me a head start on our usual six-week sabbatical from training. This is when we work on new stuff, still get writing done, and prep for trials but still have some time to ourselves that we can share with loved ones.\u00a0 There will be a trial or two in that six-week window, but nothing we\u2019re not prepared for. This allows us to actually celebrate Christmas and New Year\u2019s Day like normal people. I hope the holiday season has been restful and restorative for all of you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gonna get personal here\u2026 Finished my 2022 teaching year \u201ctenning out,\u201d with all 18 students in our third-level MAG-120 class giving us the top \u201cten out of ten\u201d possible rating on their final evaluation. It concluded forty-plus hours of high speed shooting, triple-speed qualifications with handguns, police-type qualifications with rifles and shotguns, and an introduction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7577","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\/7577","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=7577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7594,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577\/revisions\/7594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}