{"id":9062,"date":"2026-01-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=9062"},"modified":"2025-12-24T15:19:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:19:39","slug":"sabbatical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/sabbatical\/","title":{"rendered":"SABBATICAL!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I\u2019m writing this in mid-December, the welcome period in which for many years my lovely bride, the Evil Princess of Podcasts, Pixels and Polymer Pistols, joins me for a six-week sabbatical from teaching weapons, deadly force, and self-defense. We chose this time because no one wants to train during Christmas, and January is damn near too cold anywhere <\/em>for students to work for hours on an outdoor range. We resume training each February, having had a six-week sabbatical from training to work on the behind-the-scenes stuff \u2013 accounting, scheduling, curriculum changes, that sort of thing.  It also lets us spend the holiday season with family and extended family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019ll still be doing writing and court stuff, of course, our secondary and tertiary occupations.\u00a0 We may record some more episodes of my new YouTube channel, Massad Ayoob Facts and Firearms<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Early this evening, we concluded our last class of the year, a MAG-80<\/a>, the second level of training we offer. It\u2019s open only to those who\u2019ve had the pre-requisite forty hours of MAG-40<\/a>, in which the live fire is all defensive handgun and the classroom portion \u2013 according to every attorney and judge who has taken the class \u2013 exceeds three years of law school in explaining deadly force law.\u00a0 MAG-80<\/a> (http:\/\/massadayoobgroup.com<\/a>) includes a lot of hand-to-hand combatives with dummy guns, carbine and shotgun as well as handguns, wounded defender return fire techniques, shooting while moving, and more.\u00a0 Everyone passed a police-type handgun qualification, shot at double speed, on their first try. There is less time on deadly force legalities than in the first forty hours, but what there is reaches the professional level, with a couple of hours of Continuing Legal Education credit from the American Law Institute and the American Bar Association.\u00a0 When the class ended, we had \u201ctenned out,\u201d that is, every single student rated the class \u201cten out of ten.\u201d My great teaching team and I can\u2019t ask for any more than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                It was the perfect way to end a productive 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

                From us to you, we extend our wishes for a wonderful holiday season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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