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Weekend Knowledge Dump- January 20, 2023

Knowledge to make your life better.  If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend.   How to Survive a Carjacking Mike Boyle’s thoughts on carjacking.     Going Deeper Into the Gray Zone A road map for leadership development.     WHEN SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE SAID Hey!  I […]

Posted on January 20, 2023 by Greg Ellifritz in Weekend Knowledge Dump
Active Self Protection, American Cop, American Handgunner, Andrew Branca, AOAV, appendix carry, Backwoods Home, Bombs, carjacking, Erick Gelhaus, exercise, gelatin testing, Gray Zone Activities, Gun Mag Warehouse, Hock Hochheim, impact weapons, Jim Wendler, Legal, Massad Ayoob, Mike Boyle, Personal Defense Network, police shootings, Prepper's Will, Primary and Secondary, robbery, shooting drills, situational awareness, Spencer Keepers, Tamara Keel, training, USA Carry View Post

Skill Development- When Are You Good Enough?

Written by: Greg Ellifritz   “I like to throw myself passionately into a sport or activity until I reach about an 80 percent efficiency level.  To go beyond that requires an obsession and degree of specialization that doesn’t appeal to me.  Once I reach that 80 percent level I like to go off and do […]

Posted on January 4, 2023 by Greg Ellifritz in Articles
Dan John, Jeff Cooper, Paul Sharp, psychology, Seth Godin, training View Post

Trigger Finger Positioning, Hand Clenches, and Accidental Discharges

    Ten years ago, an experienced handgun instructor contacted me  to help him reconstruct the events of an accidental shooting.  This instructor shot himself while reholstering after doing a demonstration during a basic concealed handgun class.   I know what you are thinking….   “He shouldn’t have had his finger on the trigger when […]

Posted on August 8, 2022 by Greg Ellifritz in Articles
accidental discharge, Force Science Institute, Massad Ayoob, Paul Gomez, training View Post

Weekend Knowledge Dump- July 15, 2022

Knowledge to make your life better.  If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend.   With No Warning UPS Cancels Brownells’ & Ghost Guns’ Accounts-May ‘Seize and Destroy’ Packages I personally think that actions like this are more hazardous to our gun rights than much of the legislation being […]

Posted on July 15, 2022 by Greg Ellifritz in Weekend Knowledge Dump
Active Self Protection, Ammoland, Annette Evans, Chris Voss, Clint Smith, firearms training, Gavin De Becker, gelatin testing, Gun Mag Warehouse, James Keating, Kel-Tec, Kyle Lamb, Lucky Gunner, Mike Seeklander, On Her Own, open carry, psychology, robbery, Rory Miller, shooting drills, shotguns, Skillset Magazine, Stephen Jenkinson, Steve Fisher, survival, The Suited Shootist, training, William Aprill View Post

Your Tactical Training Scenario…Position of Disadvantage

  You are walking home from the grocery store and carrying several bags of food. Two men are walking behind you and yell out to you: “Hey Johnny!”   You turn and tell them your name isn’t “Johnny” and that they have mistaken you for someone else. They apologize and you continue walking home.   […]

Posted on March 21, 2022 by Greg Ellifritz in Tactical Training Scenarios
position of disadvantage, robbery, stabbing, training View Post

Teaching Tip- Coaching the Struggling Shooter

  Written by: Greg Ellifritz     I’ve known for a long time that the words we use when coaching a shooting student can affect how quickly that student grasps a certain concept.   One important concept I’ve used over the years is to express all of my coaching cues as positive statements.  If you […]

Posted on July 5, 2021 by Greg Ellifritz in Teaching Tips
shooting, Teaching Tips, training View Post

The Psychology of Previous Investment

  Written by Greg Ellifritz   I was recently listening to a podcast where the host was interviewing noted author and speaker James Howard Kunstler.  Mr. Kunstler is well known in the fields of permaculture, architecture, and sustainable living.  He has written several excellent books, with The Long Emergency and World Made By Hand likely […]

Posted on March 15, 2021 by Greg Ellifritz in Articles
James Howard Kunstler, psychology, training View Post

Teaching Tip- Gimme Three Steps

Written by: Greg Ellifritz “Simply put, the human brain can only consume about three ‘chunks’ of information in short term, or working, memory.  As more and more items are added to a list, the average person retains less and less.  Four items are a bit harder to remember than three.  Five items are even harder.  […]

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Greg Ellifritz in Teaching Tips
teaching, Teaching Tips, training View Post

Eye Gouges vs. Finger Peels

Written by Greg Ellifritz   Read the story below.  It’s a prime example of everything that shouldn’t happen in a fight, but sometimes does anyway.   Victim at WIBW-TV hangs on to attacker despite punishment   The story describes a situation where an irate man attacked several people who were working at a TV news […]

Posted on November 24, 2020 by Greg Ellifritz in News and Tactical Advice
eye gouge, training, workplace violence View Post

Teaching Tips- One Word Cues

Written by Greg Ellifritz   I was recently reading an article called The Coach’s Cue – Breaking the OODA Loop.  It was an excellent read for me because it combined two passions, combative strategy and strength training.  In the article, the author speaks about the importance of simple, one-word, vocal performance cues.  He was speaking […]

Posted on November 23, 2020 by Greg Ellifritz in Teaching Tips
Craig Douglas, Shivworks, Teaching Tips, training View Post

Training vs. Experience

Written by: Greg Ellifritz Many of my students are serious practitioners of the art of self-protection.  They’ve graduated from numerous shooting schools and hold black belts in various martial arts systems.  Although they generally enjoy the training process in general, their ultimate goal is to become better fighters.  They are hoping that the skills they […]

Posted on December 18, 2019 by Greg Ellifritz in Articles
ccw, experience, FBI, force-on-force, police, TDI, training View Post

Timing…a Missing Component in Training

Written by Greg Ellifritz   One of the hardest things I do as a firearms and self defense trainer is convincing people that their lives are worth defending.  Many students come to my classes with an attitude that displays an extreme lack of self worth.  It’s hard for me to comprehend, but many people do […]

Posted on December 17, 2019 by Greg Ellifritz in News and Tactical Advice, Tactical Training Scenarios
ccw, resistance strategies, robbery, TDI, training View Post

Shooting Through Doors and Walls

Written by: Greg Ellifritz   As I was scanning my news feed last week, I came across yet another mistaken identity shooting where the “defender” fired through a door or wall. Dad mistakes daughter for intruder, shoots her to death   According to the article: “Pressley’s father told investigators he fired through a door at […]

Posted on May 27, 2019 by Greg Ellifritz in News and Tactical Advice
building search tactics, bullets, home defense, home invasion, training View Post

Training Scars

 Written by: Greg Ellifritz   Training scars … we all have them.   I’m not talking about training scars like the black eye you get when your partner goes a little too hard while sparring or the scars you get when you cut your finger trying to quickly open your fighting knife. The training scars […]

Posted on April 16, 2019 by Greg Ellifritz in Articles
ccw, firearms training, Jim Cirillo, police, TDI, training View Post

Strategies and Standards for Defensive Handgun Training

Written by: Greg Ellifritz   A couple days ago I finished Karl Rehn and John Daub’s new book Strategies and Standards for Defensive Handgun Training.   I really enjoyed it and found it to contain a whole bunch of valuable information.   The authors’ book description follows: “What percentage of carry permit holders attend training […]

Posted on April 10, 2019 by Greg Ellifritz in Book Reviews
Ben Stoeger, book reviews, ccw, Claude Werner, firearms training, John Daub, Karl Rehn, Mike Seeklander, shooting drills, training View Post

The Distance Bias

Written by: Greg Ellifritz   Think about your last firearms training session.  From which distance did you spend the majority of your time shooting?   Next question…   When you visualize possible scenarios when you might have to defend yourself with a firearm, how far do you imagine the criminal shooting at you will be? […]

Posted on July 31, 2018 by Greg Ellifritz in Articles
extreme close range, police, shootings, training, weapon retention View Post

Weekend Knowledge Dump- July 13, 2018

Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Double taps: please, no! Why firing two shots on one sight picture may not be the best tactic.     Family Safety Jeff Gonzales talks about some considerations should things kick off when you are in […]

Posted on July 13, 2018 by Greg Ellifritz in Weekend Knowledge Dump
Active Self Protection, AR-15, backup gun, Caleb Causey, carjacking, Chuck Haggard, family safety, Grant Cunningham, Jeff Gonzales, Legal, Massad Ayoob, medical skills, Melody Lauer, Mike Seeklander, pepper spray, police, Ralph Mroz, Recoil Magazine, Richard Nance, training, travel View Post

The Need to SEE

Written by Greg Ellifritz   By now, most of you have seen video of the takedown of the suspect in the April terrorist vehicle run-down attack in Canada.  If you haven’t take a look at the short video embedded below.     The video perfectly illustrates one of the most common mistakes I see students […]

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Greg Ellifritz in News and Tactical Advice
police gunfights, training View Post

2017 Training Year in Review

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 […]

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Greg Ellifritz in What's New
firearms training, training, travel View Post

Options for Non-Combatants

Written by Greg Ellifritz     I recently was contacted by a regular reader of this site.  She had an interesting request for a specialized article for the non-combatant.  To paraphrase the request:   “I read all the great advice on your site and try to implement as much of it as I can.  But […]

Posted on December 20, 2017 by Greg Ellifritz in News and Tactical Advice
self defense, training View Post
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