Recently posted at the Downrange.tv Forum:

There is no way in the forum I can encapsulate everything I learned in 3 days with John Brown in Montrose, CO teaching the Combat Focus and Advanced Pistol. What I can say is that in a Dynamic Critical Incident anyone taking this course will stand a very good chance of being the one to walk away. Clearly a lot of research of human dynamics, neurology and psychology has gone into this program so that the student learns to be very efficient in their combat pistol skills via the integrity of the overall material and a consistency learned through excellent instruction and repetition (I.C.E.). John was a very thorough instructor who expects the best from his students after clearly articulated explanations, but "entertainingly patient" with those of us who had learned hard to change old habits; add just enough stress to make our new technique go to hell, then allow us to put it back together under a watchful eye and more practice to fully reconnect the neurons.

I have no doubt I achieved several higher levels of expertise in 3 days. There are no shortcuts here and any question is answered fully. Every moment on the range including debriefings I was aware we were being taught to perform our best should we ever have to meet the elephant - exactly the kind of training I was hoping for. No BS, no excuses allowed on my part.

I have read Rob's book and viewed his DVDs which helped consolidate my learning and understanding of some of the teaching points. Subsequent to the course I have worked on my weak points and reinforced the training at my local range one to two times a weak. I highly recommend this program.

-FB

Course Feedback from 2 day Combat Focus Shooting in Cleveland:

This was my first Class with Rob and I not really sure what to expect.  I had seen a couple of his shows and found them to be informative and a couple fellow LMS guys said it was a good course.  I was not disappointed, the class was great.  It was nice being the student for a change and Rob treated us all like professionals.  Our group was small but very diverse.  There were 3 LE(me included), an emergency room doctor, a pilot, and our resident martial arts ass-kicker Carmen.  The skill levels of the class varied from some being their first ever shooting class to those of us that have been to numerous courses.  The brochure said to be prepared to fire 1200 rounds in two days and we nearly reached that goal, I believe the official count was 1,000 fired.  There was very little down time, we had a lunch break and the only other time we were off the line was to load magazines.  For me there were no new ground breaking concepts to the course, I did learn some new drills and will use them when I train.  What I got most out of the course was Rob's explanations of why we were doing drills the way we were.  He did not just stand up there and say "Do this because I said so", like some other courses I have had, he explained how the body, physiologically and mentally, will react to things and that is why we were doing that particular drill.  Rob really made us think when we were on the line, not really about the shooting part but about why we were doing it. If we thought that something was bullshit we were to call him on it.  This is a great course for both beginning and experienced shooters.  I walked away with a much better understanding of the "why" and shooting 1,000 rounds in two days was awesome!  I will definitely take another ICE class.

-MM

Course Feedback on the new 4 day CFS Instructor Course from a newly certified CFS Instructor:

Rob, from a student's perspective, I agree with your views on the CFSID class recently held in VB. The extra day provided relevant teaching information, but also helped us finely set our focus on what was required to become certified. It was drinking from a fire hose on the information end, but, fortunately, we weren't required to assimilate that total amount of data in order to begin to teach. It did, however, provide me with the motivation to dig deeper to 'back myself up', i.e., not to teach up to--nor 'past'--my level of knowledge, as well as to provide a better foundation and experience for those who would sign up for the end user course. It is, after all, a 'life-saving' course for most, if you will. I feel like I'm still just walking out of the 'forest' of the training, so I don't have the perspective I desire to have, or need, but intend to get as soon as possible. Thanks to you and Jeremiah...great course, very valuable, personally and for many others I have told about it since then, who anticipate their own training.

Glad to be here.

-MN

Some thoughts our new Outdoor Channel TV Show: The Best Defense: Survival:

I was very happy to see this series happen. I see so many news programs and docu-dramas on Discovery/History about how we are all going to wipe ourselves out. But no one is discussing WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT. You never hear discussions about how to survive, and what to expect.

So my hat's off to you guys and I cannot express how much I appreciate the knowledge that you are willing to share with us.

-JC