I just got home from a two day IPSC course at Poco (site of next years IPSC Canada Nationals) with Todd Jarret. What an excellent course. Todays drills on movement were phenomenal, and I hope to put in about 20,000 rounds of practice of them before this years Nats (which it looks like I can attend most of). Not that any of his drills weren't great, but the movement stuff was my favorite. Todd is a very personable guy, amazing shooter, and a great teacher. Very very fun to learn from, and he gets his point across well. I did make the statement, when asked, that I thought I learned more from Ernest Langdons course (which I held at my club), but that Todds was better. Just to explain that comment, when I brought Ernest up I had no real skill as a shooter, it was all blind luck and such. So his class was my first real high end class for shooting skills, as such I had a ton of stuff I needed to learn and work on. Todds course was also a very high end, but I felt for the most part it was more of a refinement course, with a bunch of new stuff thrown in. Now that's for me. I am sure some people were exposed to more new stuff and had lots of refining done.
was it worth it? Hell yes, would I take the exact same course again? absolutely and without a doubt. In fact I would hire Todd for a private lesson if I could next time to really focus on skills.
A huge thanks to Mark for putting this together and finding a way for me to get in on it, once I learned I had the right two days off. Thanks as well to everyone on the course, it was good shooting with you guys. And of obviously thanks to Todd (who will probably never see this), for coming up here for us. I look forward to taking another class with him next year (I hope), and him telling me if I've improved.
And just so everyone knows, cuz I know the story is going to get out. Yes I dropped a loaded gun. Yes it was my Beretta. And no, it wasn't the Ghost Holsters fault. We had moved the holster position about 10 minutes earlier and I attempted to put the gun back in, in the old spot, and missed. I was tired, not focused, and the click I heard was simply the gun hitting the edge of the holster, not the click you get from locking into it. So obviously when I let go of it, it fell, flipped and landed on it's side, with the hammer cocked nonetheless (it wasn't cocked when I let it go, it did that when it hit the ground). That certainly got my attention, as well as most on the line. It won't happen again!
was it worth it? Hell yes, would I take the exact same course again? absolutely and without a doubt. In fact I would hire Todd for a private lesson if I could next time to really focus on skills.
A huge thanks to Mark for putting this together and finding a way for me to get in on it, once I learned I had the right two days off. Thanks as well to everyone on the course, it was good shooting with you guys. And of obviously thanks to Todd (who will probably never see this), for coming up here for us. I look forward to taking another class with him next year (I hope), and him telling me if I've improved.
And just so everyone knows, cuz I know the story is going to get out. Yes I dropped a loaded gun. Yes it was my Beretta. And no, it wasn't the Ghost Holsters fault. We had moved the holster position about 10 minutes earlier and I attempted to put the gun back in, in the old spot, and missed. I was tired, not focused, and the click I heard was simply the gun hitting the edge of the holster, not the click you get from locking into it. So obviously when I let go of it, it fell, flipped and landed on it's side, with the hammer cocked nonetheless (it wasn't cocked when I let it go, it did that when it hit the ground). That certainly got my attention, as well as most on the line. It won't happen again!
