This course is designed to provide students with a holistic and layered approach to effective self-defense, beginning with an understanding of criminal violence and then building skills and tactics to meet those challenges.

Course Syllabus

Online Instruction (4 hours) To maximize the in-person learning opportunity, the first four hours of the class are delivered via Internet video. These presentations cover a variety of topics and are intended to inform and challenge students to assess their assumptions and current approach to self-defense. Topics include:

• Developing the defensive mindset• Tactics and techniques to support the Awareness, Avoidance, De-Escalation, Evasion paradigm• Conflict communications• Implications of 3rd party defense

Numerous other novel topics that are designed to educate while prompting questions that only the student can answer for themselves

Onsite Instruction (16 hours) Two full days of onsite instruction begin with a Q&A on the online video series, followed by a presentation of baseline “stop the bleed” skills and practical application. Classroom work ends with a discussion and application on methods to incorporate pepper spray into self-defense preparations.

During the remainder of the weekend, concepts and skills will be demonstrated, and then interwoven into highly effective tactics derived from studying the patterns associated social and predatory violence.

• Street Encounter Skills• Tactical Anatomy and “Shooting in 3-D”• Time and timing• Your first, best, shot• Decisive movement• Interacting with law enforcement• Much more that you will not see in other classes

Using a combination of live and dry-fire exercises these concepts and newly acquired hard and soft skills are then validated with shooting drills and highly controlled, non-contact force-on-force scenarios.

End state

Students will be equipped with an understanding of the threats they face and provided a comprehensive suite of skills and tactics that enable them to respond to these circumstances, ensuring prompt and decisive action within legal and moral constraints

You already have the basics of shooting and gunhandling – you can load, unload, and draw from a holster safely, you have proper muzzle and trigger finger discipline, shoot reasonably accurately, you can keep your gun running by reloading and clearing malfunctions, and maybe have the basics of use of cover down. What do you do next to improve your capability to solve problems where the handgun is an appropriate solution? It’s time to improve your ability to deploy the handgun better, shoot it better, and navigate movement, cover, and the presence of bystanders better. It’s time for Pistol Shooting Solutions.

This class is two full days of intermediate to advanced level training, taught by Gabriel White (see instructor bio.) The class will use live and dry fire to improve our defensive use of the handgun, encompassing accuracy and efficiency in shooting, gunhandling, and personal tactics. This will include a heavy focus on developing students’ technical skills and the application of those skills to solve problems relevant to defensive use of the handgun, including simple and complex spatial problems, and mitigation of danger to bystanders. Essentially, this class will focus on high performance in concealed carry and self-defense with a handgun.

• Efficient drawstroke • Shot calling
• Driving the gun on single and multiple targets (shooting mechanics)
• Full spectrum shooting on the move (controlled and dynamic movement)
• Shooting on the move competitive exercises
• Foreground and background mitigation
• Basic and advanced use of cover • Use of cover competitive exercises
• Technical skills challenge testing • Effective dry practice

Student Prerequisites

• At minimum, you must continuously execute the four firearms safety principles and be able to safely draw from a concealed, belt-mounted holster or unconcealed duty holster. This class is not appropriate for beginners and should not be your first training class.
• You must be at least 21 years old, a U.S. Citizen, and not prohibited by any Federal, State, or Local law from possessing firearms.
• You will be required to sign at least one waiver at the start of class (Instructor waiver and potentially one or more club waivers.)
• You should be able to hit a 6″x6″ target on demand at 10 yards (equivalent of the A/B zone or head of a USPSA Metric or IDPA target) and reload and clear malfunctions.
• Faster and more accurate shooting and gunhandling will be very helpful. A person with weak marksmanship or gunhandling skills may feel somewhat left behind. You may still be able to participate safely, but may not feel that the class is the best use of your time and ammunition.
• If you are unsafe, or do not appear to be of sound and responsible mind, you will be asked to leave. If you are safe, and of sound and responsible mind, but lack the needed shooting skill, you will not be asked to leave, but the class will not be altered to cater to you.

Equipment Requirements

• Eye and ear protection, plus brimmed hat.
• Safe and reliable service caliber handgun, 9mm/.38 Spl or larger – this class is built around compact and full size semi-automatic pistols – revolvers are welcome but may be very challenging.  Note: The SIG P320 handgun was recently discovered to have a vulnerability to discharge at a particularly egregious upward angle as a result of being dropped. The P320 is not allowed in Pistol Shooting Solutions unless it has received the upgrade/fix from SIG.
• Strong-side or appendix, belt mounted holster that covers the trigger guard when the gun is in the holster, stays open when the gun is out of the holster, and attaches securely to the belt. Unsafe holsters will not be allowed. Please do not bring minimalist holsters that only cover the trigger guard and are designed to be removed from the belt before holstering. Please do not bring the BLACKHAWK! Serpa holster unless required by your agency.
• Concealment garment or duty/retention holster. The class is intended to develop the highly skilled use of a pistol in self-defense. For most of us, that means either concealment or a duty/retention holster. Unconcealed range or competition gear is also welcome if you prefer.
• Sufficient spare magazines to shoot at least 65 rounds of ammo before needing to refill magazines (for example, if you have 17-round magazines, bring at least 4 magazines to class.)
• Magazine pouch (single, double, and combination pouches are all acceptable.)
• Ammunition, ~1000 rounds (actual round count is likely to be over 950.) Please allow yourself the best class experience possible and bring ammunition that is going to function correctly!
• Bring lunch, snacks, water, and personal hygiene products – we will be at the range all day and take short lunch breaks (approximately 30 minutes) – there will not be time to leave the range to get food!
• This class is not the best time to break in a new gun, or use untested or unreliable guns, ammunition, or other equipment! Those issues will be a huge distraction from your training and I am unlikely to be able to solve those problems for you.

Email questions to classes@gabewhitetraining.com

The goal for this course is to teach the instructor my methodology for learning and teaching the fundamentals of employing the RDS-equipped pistol.

Red Dots on pistols are becoming more popular as options for carry/duty weapons. Part of mastery is training – here it is!

Prerequisites: THIS IS NOT AN INTRO LEVEL CLASS. IF YOU ARE NOT AN INSTRUCTOR OR DO NOT HAVE A SOLID PISTOL SKILL BASE, YOU WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE AND YOUR FEE WILL NOT BE REFUNDED.

Topics Covered

• Zeroing your red dot. 10 yard zero.

• Draw and how to stop fishing for the dot. Why back up irons are necessary?

• Only use the necessary amount of information required to make an acceptably accurate shot at the speed and distance required.

• Red dots up close. 5 yards and in.

• Red dots at distance

• Speed: Efficiency of draw and presentation. Concealed and Open setups. Speed is the economy of motion. Speed is not useless frenetic movement.

• Micro Drill training method.

• Dot tracking: Grip, stance, dot movement, predictability. How to stop over confirming the dot.

• Modes of Practice

• How to get better on your own. Dry fire for skill building. Live fire for confirmation.

• Target transitions

• Shooting on the move

• Identifying, diagnosing, and fixing common problems with all the aforementioned skills

The premise of this class is based on the US Census Bureau report that 80% of the American Population lives in Urban areas. An urban area’s location is characterized by high human population density and defined within an area approximately of 200-300 yards and surrounding. Using these metrics this mid-level course reintroduces students to their rifles, working in varied terrain, and over distances between 0 and 300 yards.  This is not a DMR type class, any carbine and optic configuration may be used.

THE CLASS WILL THOROUGHLY COVER 

Safety brief & Medical plan
Use of barricades
Different optics and accessories
Effective shooting stance
Recoil control
Sight picture using magnified and or electronic optics
Proper zero and confirmation of them. (Range dependent on distance)
Use of the sling for supported shooting
Use of body supported shooting positions
Trigger control
Different shooting positions

This course pick up where practical shotgun ended. We will explore the use of slugs and proper zeros of irons and red dots sights, and extend range use of buckshot. As well as shooting on the move and alternate firing positions and target transitions and shooting on the move.

THE CLASS WILL THOROUGHLY COVER 

Safety brief & medical plan
Use of barricades
Different optics and accessories
Effective shooting stance
Recoil control
Sight picture using magnified and or electronic optics
Proper zero and confirmation of them. (Range dependent on distance)
Use of the sling for supported shooting
Use of body supported shooting positions
Trigger control
Different shooting positions

The goal for this course is to teach the instructor my methodology for learning and teaching the fundamentals of employing the RDS-equipped pistol.

Red Dots on pistols are becoming more popular as options for carry/duty weapons. Part of mastery is training – here it is!

Prerequisites: THIS IS NOT AN INTRO LEVEL CLASS. IF YOU ARE NOT AN INSTRUCTOR OR DO NOT HAVE A SOLID PISTOL SKILL BASE, YOU WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE AND YOUR FEE WILL NOT BE REFUNDED.

Topics Covered

• Zeroing your red dot. 10 yard zero.

• Draw and how to stop fishing for the dot. Why back up irons are necessary?

• Only use the necessary amount of information required to make an acceptably accurate shot at the speed and distance required.

• Red dots up close. 5 yards and in.

• Red dots at distance

• Speed: Efficiency of draw and presentation. Concealed and Open setups. Speed is the economy of motion. Speed is not useless frenetic movement.

• Micro Drill training method.

• Dot tracking: Grip, stance, dot movement, predictability. How to stop over confirming the dot.

• Modes of Practice

• How to get better on your own. Dry fire for skill building. Live fire for confirmation.

• Target transitions

• Shooting on the move

• Identifying, diagnosing, and fixing common problems with all the aforementioned skills