National Safety Month Gun Safety Campaign

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Safety Solutions Academy is the name of my company and it shouldn't…

0175 – FF Lance Thomas

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I think youtube can be an outstanding resource for learning when it comes to handling ourselves in a violent encounter. One of the best applications is taking a look at videos that can help[ us to develop our warrior mindset. Take a look at today's FF to listen to a warrior.

0174 – How’s Your Training Going?

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As a trainer and a teacher I have always placed learning pretty high on my list of things to do so it shouldn't be much of a surprise that I spend a good bit of my time learning. Today we will take a look at how you might organize your training and ways you can extend your resources to get that training in without breaking the bank.

0169 – Rules vs. Laws

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One of the issues many of my students struggle with is when to carry a gun. For me that isn't so much of a struggle. The first thing I try to do is understnad the differences between rules and laws and why the difference matters. That is our topic for today. Enjoy the show.

0168 – Off Body Carry

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I am a firm believer that there is no one carry system solution for everyone who would like to carry a gun. What works for me, works for me. There may be some folks who have success with a similar system, but it would be egotistical and wrong for me to think that my way is the way. In the same token, It would be pretty heady of me to poo poo another's system because it doesn't work for me. When it comes to off body carry. I have only seen one person who was able to pull it off consistently without major foul ups.

0165 – FF Vehicle Chase and Shooting

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Today's Friday Film gives us a pretty good look at the dynamics that are involved in violence. Very few people who are on our side have the luxury of knowing when they get ready to walk out the door that they are going to be involved in violence. There are a few roles that good guys play that give that foresight, but it isn't in the cards for most of us. Based on the nature of life we are most likely going to have some kind of a situation that appears from nowhere and quickly boils over into a chaotic, violent mess. ...

0161 – Impact Weapons

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Impact weapons are force multipliers. The increase the effectiveness of our strikes by increasing the amount of force we are able to apply. They do this by being hard and or reducing the surface area and or, increasing the speed that we can strike with. Today we will talk about how impact weapons work and what it is that I look for in an impact weapon.

0159 – Convenience Store Awareness

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In the past week or so we have been talking about the importance of awareness and I talked about the daily practice I do to help improve my awareness skills. Today I want to give a specific example of an exercise that I use to practice that can be adapted to many situations.

0158 – The “Advanced” Myth

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I'm a trainer. I love what I do. I enjoy teaching people and helping them to acquire new skills and develop skills they already have more throughly. I have every intention of someday being a billionaire from teaching training classes. Check on me in ten years to make sure I have kept my word, but the $50 I actually may make in the business is not going to be from ADVANCED classes. Being "Advanced" is cool.

0157 – Too Much Too Fast

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Training is like building a home. We can't put on the roof until the walls are up. Putting switch plate covers on before the switch is wired in is a bit silly. I can't imagine putting in new carpeting before the drywall has been sanded and painted. You get the point. Doing too much too fast is a waste of time, energy and resources.

0156 – Third Party Defense

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Today's show is the third in a pretty loose series of episodes designed to help us to decide if we should get involved in situation that are taking place around us. Remember that to even have the opportunity to make a choice in the situations we are referring to in these shows, we have to be aware. Without awareness we are simply going to be bumbling in and out of situations without conscious control. We never want to give up control of our destiny so start out by being aware.