{"id":8056,"date":"2023-10-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8056"},"modified":"2023-10-12T16:29:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T20:29:43","slug":"training-with-a-world-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/training-with-a-world-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAINING WITH A WORLD CHAMPION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I interviewed Rob Leatham a while back, I asked him how many world championships he had won. It took about thirty seconds to stop and think before he answered. When someone&nbsp;&nbsp;has won the world championship of what he does so many times he\u2019s lost count, it is nature\u2019s way of telling us that when he speaks of that discipline we should really,&nbsp;<em>really&nbsp;<\/em>listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americanhandgunner.com\" target=\"_blank\">American Handgunner&nbsp;<\/a><\/em>recently resurrected an article I had done years ago about a Leatham class for my Cop Talk column there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/americanhandgunner.com\/self-defense\/fast-accurate-for-cops\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here\u2019s the article<\/a> in question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Go to the range and try some of the drills he shared with us in the class. I\u2019m happy to say Rob Leatham is still in the game, still one of the men to beat at that game all these years later, and a true gentleman and a gifted instructor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I interviewed Rob Leatham a while back, I asked him how many world championships he had won. It took about thirty seconds to stop and think before he answered. When someone&nbsp;&nbsp;has won the world championship of what he does so many times he\u2019s lost count, it is nature\u2019s way of telling us that when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8056","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\/8056","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=8056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8061,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8056\/revisions\/8061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}