We just finished a MAG-180 course, so called because its six ten-hour days plus the three prerequisite courses add up to 180 hours of training with Massad Ayoob Group (http:\/\/massadayoobgroup.com). Known as LFI-IV when I created it at Lethal Force Institute, it\u2019s something we offer only every few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My friend and colleague David Maglio at Firearms Academy of Wisconsin (GAIL INSERT WEBSITE PLS) took the lead in setting it up. For my part, it\u2019s the only class I ever teach where I have to carry a clipboard to keep track of everyone at the multiple venues. The shooting portion was held at the excellent Highlands facility. The sumptuous Manor in Sheboygan Falls saw its ballroom turned into a dojo. At a third venue decision-making and stress shooting skills were tested on a MILO simulator, and in force-on-force Simunitions roleplay, while bullet testing was done forty or so miles away at another facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three dozen students attended, the largest of these we\u2019ve done yet thanks to David\u2019s organizing skills and our excellent staff. They were black, white, Asian, male and female. They were young and old: 21-year-old Daniel Blazek became our youngest fourth-level graduate, alongside Al Leung, 75. (When Al received his certificate, I commented that between him and me we had 150 years. One smart-ass yelled, \u201cYeah, Al is 50.\u201d ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The range officers came primarily from Maglio\u2019s side of the house with David running the range, while I ran the hand-to-hand side with my Florida crew led by Steve Denney and Dr. Ken Kelly. There was something going on damn near every minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the range, David estimated that the class had fired about 50,000 rounds and put something like 800 pounds of lead into the berm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The class culminated with each graduate earning instructor credentials with the Persuader\u2122 \u201cmini-baton\u201d(think Kubotan\u2122) and in handgun retention and disarming. I don\u2019t certify anyone to teach until I\u2019ve seen<\/em> them teach, so the class culminated with them teaching a four-hour Persuader class to private citizens and an eight-hour retention\/disarming class to police from the area. The Persuader students raved about it, and the cops gave my newly minted instructors a most gratifying 9.7 evaluation on a 10 scale. Those men and women made me proud of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am grateful to our excellent staff. Team teaching works. That said, I was relieved to set down that damn clipboard at the end\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We just finished a MAG-180 course, so called because its six ten-hour days plus the three prerequisite courses add up to 180 hours of training with Massad Ayoob Group (http:\/\/massadayoobgroup.com). Known as LFI-IV when I created it at Lethal Force Institute, it\u2019s something we offer only every few years. My friend and colleague David Maglio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7875","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\/7875","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=7875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7877,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7875\/revisions\/7877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}