Written by: Greg Ellifritz Last weekend I took a wonderful training class from Larry Lindenman from Point Driven Training. The class was titled “Saps and Jacks” and covered the use of short, flexible impact weapons. It was masterfully hosted by The Complete Combatant at their MMA facility in Marietta, Georgia. Larry is part […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz I spent last weekend teaching at the 20th Anniversary Rangemaster Tactical Training Conference in Little Rock Arkansas. I’ve now taught at the last six Tactical Conferences. The TacCons are regularly the most fun classes I teach. The conference is three days of material taught by 37 separate world-class instructors. Each instructor […]
Written by Greg Ellifritz Today marks the completion of six full years of blogging about self defense, firearms, and personal safety topics. I started this website on March 18, 2012 and have posted nearly 1300 total articles since then. Over the course of the last six years, the website has seen almost 20 […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz I’ve spent the last two decades of my life intensively studying every school shooting I can find. I’ve read hundreds of thousands of pages of material describing every detail of every single school shooting in the last century. I’ve written more than 50 articles on the topic myself. I’ve trained countless […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz I originally wrote this piece in June of 2016 after seeing some horribly contentious gun control debates on my Facebook feed. Guess what I’m seeing now? You’re right. The very same political virtue signalling. The article is as useful today as it was two years ago when I first wrote it. […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz If you have been vacationing off the planet, you may not realize that the world’s largest trade show for shooting enthusiasts was held in Las Vegas last week. The Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trades (SHOT) show is the second largest trade show in Las Vegas every year. 70,000+ shooting industry professionals […]
Written by Greg Ellifritz Ever since I started training people in the fighting arts for a living, I have kept very meticulous records. Not only is it important for potential future legal action, it’s a great marker for tracking progress and improvement. Each year at this time, I do a review of what I […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Last week, I posted an article linking to my most popular posts in 2017. In that article, I discussed how my “most popular” articles were not the same as my “best articles.” I liked many of the most popular articles (listed by page view), but I think other articles that […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz I returned last week from an epic two-week trip to Antarctica (via Chile). Why Antarctica? Because it was on our continent bucket list. Both Lauren and I have been to all of the other continents in the world. Antarctica was the last one. So we went. The trip started with […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Seth Godin made a very powerful statement in a recent blog post. “My most popular blog posts this year…weren’t my best ones. As usual, the most popular music wasn’t the best recorded this year either. Same for the highest-grossing movies, restaurants and politicians doing fundraising. “Best” is rarely the same as […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Here’s a little weekend bonus content. Instead of a text article, I’m sharing some good advice via audio. Carrie Lightfoot from the Women’s Gun Show podcast interviewed me a couple days ago. We had a great conversation about the best way people can stay safe while doing their holiday […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz I’m mixing it up for you a little bit on this Monday morning. Instead of a text article, I’m sharing some good advice via audio. Carrie Lightfoot from the Women’s Gun Show podcast interviewed me a couple weeks ago. We had a great conversation about best practices for responding to […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz I just got home from an amazing 10-day trip to Peru. Since a lot of you like reading about my travel adventures, I’ll talk a little about my trip and some of the security issues I encountered in South America. This was my third trip to Peru. I hiked […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Instead of an article today, I’m going to provide you with some audio content. Last weekend I was on Ballistic Radio talking about terrorist vehicle attacks. Here are the hosts’ summary of the show: “Most people’s best option is to duck and dodge and not get hit, wait for the […]
Written by Greg Ellifritz One of the students in last weekend’s Extreme Close Quarters Gunfighting class wrote an exceptional after action review. If you are curious about the topics I cover in a class like this, please check out the link below. Thanks to Salvatore for taking the time to write such a detailed […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz I don’t really understand the appeal, but posts like this one where I describe which gear works and which gear doesn’t work are universally the most widely read articles on my site. Instead of reading my reports, most of you would be better off running your own gear hard in […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz The Short Barrel Shepherd released his 3 x3 video review of the class I taught at Rangemaster last week. The class was titled “Armed Citizen Response to Terrorist Bombing Incidents.” It was a two hour lecture that covered information about how terrorist and suicide bombers operate, what their bombs look […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Last weekend I taught a class at the Rangemaster Tactical Conference titled “Armed Citizen Response to Terrorist Bombings.” That was my fourth annual class at Rangemaster. I plan on teaching at the conference as long as they will have me. It’s really one of the best conferences in the country. […]
Written by Greg Ellifritz Today marks the completion of five full years of blogging about self defense, firearms, and personal safety topics. I started this website on March 18, 2012 and have posted nearly 1100 total articles since then. Over the course of the last five years, the website has seen more than […]
Written by: Greg Ellifritz It was Lauren’s birthday last week, so I took her to Iceland for a long weekend to celebrate. It was a country that both of us were interested in visiting and one that neither of us had already traveled to. She found a whirlwind four-day tour of the country and […]
