Greg Bettis

Are you in the know? Or one of those instructors who only knows what you want to know?  It’s natural to continue to do what works for us but we aren’t teaching “us”, we’re teaching “them”.  Most of us in the last category are pretty closed to anything that we don’t like, while instructors in […]

A pistol-shaped hammer?  Just when I think I’m doing well as a police firearms instructor, I find out I’ve over-looked a critical component of the deadly fight – hitting someone with an unholstered impact tool.  Yes, hitting a suspect with a firearm.  We’ve talked about but never really practiced it.  Striking a suspect with a

As firearms instructors we all know how important trigger management is in winning a gunfight, but we often fail to emphasize the importance of language management.  Our language could be the key to controlling a suspect, winning a court battle or saving your life. As we teach officers best methods for off-duty carry of a

Yes, I know it’s a shock but it’s true.  Take a moment and leave political correctness aside, with its limiting thinking and fear of embarrassment.  Men and women are different in many ways yet as use of force instructors we often lump all students into the same learning profile.  If our goal is to give

“Same old, same old” is a pretty common saying to express boring repetition.  It can mean that what we’re doing today is the same as yesterday.   Seems like we’re always looking for something new and different.  Firearms instructors have witnessed this phenomenon for decades. Look at shooters and instructors of recent years and you’ll