Precision Response Training Class Schedule, Jan-May 2015

[JTH]

New, updated schedule of Precision Response Training classes:

Schedule for Jan 2015 - May 2015:

• Feb 07:  CCW Lifestyle
• Feb 28:  CCW State Course
• Mar 13-14:  Introduction to Handguns
• Mar 28:  Pistol Skills Seminar
• Apr 25:  Competition Seminar
• May 09:  CCW Lifestyle
• May 30:  CCW State Course
• Jun 26-27:  Handgun Techniques/Shooting Skills
• Jul 18: Tactics Seminar

We'll be adding more HT/SS classes to the schedule, in addition to a DT and a CQT class, in the upcoming months.  And hopefully, this year we'll also have a CCW 201 training course...

PRT Schedule/Registration page

(Edited to put the schedule at the top.)



Here's the old, original post:

We've finally gotten ourselves organized with respect to course offerings for the first half of the year (well, February through May at least).  A couple of comments about classes in general, though...

First off, some good news: For the past couple of years there has been a lot of requests for more short seminars--so that's what we are going to do.  We've started by scheduling three in the first half of the year, and we are planning on at least two more for the remainder.  The topics for the first ones are already set, but while we already have some ideas in mind for the last two, we will entertain suggestions--so if there is anything in particular you want to do, let us know!  (Seminar dates:  Pistol Skills Mar 28, Competition/Classifier skills Apr 25, Tactical Skills May 09.)

Second, as we've been teaching the Handgun Techniques and Shooting Skills courses, we've found that not only can they be taught at the same time, but also that the people who have signed up for fundamentals analysis (Shooting Skills) could have significantly benefited from some dryfire instruction on technique prior to the live fire section of the class like what happens in the HT course.  In many cases, we see that with a short amount of dryfire work prior to the range time, we could have shortened the time for the improvement process on specific fundamentals.  So---the Handgun Technique course and the Shooting Skills courses have been combined into a single 1.5 day course.  The initial evening will be dryfire in the classroom to work on specifics of fundamentals, and the next day will be on the range the entire time.  (This hasn't changed for the HT students, but it does add some good dryfire work for the SS students.)

Third, we have put up the schedule of classes for PRT courses through May.  While we'd LIKE to be able to offer a CCW State course every month, we have a limited amount of time and we've decided that our other courses are more important--because you can find CCW courses all over the place (and if you can't take mine, among others I recommend Chris Zeeb at Nebraska CCW Training) but you can't find our Handgun Technique/Shooting Skills, CCW Lifestyle, or Defensive Tactics/CQT courses anywhere else. 

Lastly (here's the bad news) due to changes in available resources and general costs, I've had to raise a few of my class fees.  Seminars are now $40, HT/SS is now $145, and the CCW Lifestyle and Introduction to Handgun courses are now $95.  For those last two, I kept them ridiculously cheap as long as I could (truthfully, $85 is a stupid amount for me to charge for a 1.5 day course in which I have to buy required student packets plus use a huge amount of equipment plus supply ammunition for all students) because I feel that people need VERY BADLY to take those classes.  And I haven't changed the cost much--only $10 more.  But that SHOULD help me continue to be able to offer those classes because I'm not losing quite so much money on them.

So, get yourselves to the PRT Schedule/Registration page, and sign up for some classes!

[JTH]

Blacker Ops seminar details have been added in a separate post...

http://nebraskafirearms.org/forum/index.php/topic,13569.0.html

(Note that if you sign up for all three seminars, you get a discount!)

[JTH]

Oh, one last note:

We have changed our registration/cancellation policy to something a bit more in line with the industry standard.  (It is still more lenient than the industry standard, but at least it is closer than it was.)  We simply couldn't keep taking the losses that were occurring when people cancelled the day before the class.

Details in the FAQs on the website, and on the Registration/Cancellation page.

[JTH]

Ok, there have been a couple of changes to the PRT class schedule....some due to personal conflicts that have just appeared, others due to other classes in the area being offered (and not wanting to double-book people) and general requests from some folks.  As such, here are the changes (and I'll edit the initial post of this thread with the updated known schedule):

The HT/SS course on April 10-11 has been shifted to Jun 26-27
The Seminar on May 09 has been shifted to July 18.
May 09 now contains a CCW Lifestyle class.

[JTH]

This, right here, is why our CCW Lifestyle class contains scenario training.  (And why the CQT class and the CCW201 class too...)

http://www.gunnuts.net/2015/03/19/experiential-learning-laboratory-with-craig-southnarc-douglas-the-stuff-you-dont-learn-in-gun-school/

It makes an amazing difference in our ability to shoot when suddenly said "shooting" is packaged into a situation that contains multiple variables, verbalization, and choices.

In the CCW Lifestyle course, the scenarios are simply ones that are common events that may happen to people who CCW.  And yet, as people have stated in their AARs, it is an eye-opening thing to have to verbalize, recognize the developing situation, and act in real time.   

It gets a lot harder to shoot accurately when you have to first figure out IF you should be shooting in the first place.  And "shooting" is often by itself not a sufficient answer.

Find out for yourself, and get some training---we've got a CCW Lifestyle course on May 9th...

http://precisionresponse.4t.com/Schedule.html