Those readers who have followed this blog for more than a couple of months are aware ... sometimes painfully* aware ... that I not only teach an "INTRODUCTION TO USPSA" class at my local gun club, but I also tend to report on these training sessions.
*(the 'painful' part is that sometimes I'm unable to curb my enthusiasm when writing these reports).
Today's "First Saturday" class was refreshing in a couple of ways.
First, every one of the six class members was competent, knowledgeable and exhibited excellent gun-handling skills. Compare that to my first class several years ago (13 students, no helpers, and at least half of the participants had little or NO experience shooting their pistol; one didn't even know that his 1911-style pistol had a safety), and you will understand how refreshing it is when I hold a class and I don't find one single instance when a participant performs an "unsafe action".
Second, two of the participants had already taken the class!
They enjoyed the experience to the degree that they not only had not only encouraged a friend to sign up for this month's class, but also accompanied their friend and took the entire class all over again!
While I would love to posit that this was due to the excellence of instruction (ahem), it was obvious that these are people who just LOVE to shoot, and in IPSC/USPSA have discovered a wonderful excuse for spending a day at the range and getting in a lot of trigger-time.
One of the Good Friends Who Brought Good Friends (Anthony) was a member of the February class. Due to inclement weather (12-14" of snow, and ice on the freeways), the February club match was cancelled. Anthony hadn't even been allowed to shoot a single match, but he not only convinced his friend to attend the class, but accompanied him because "it was too far to ask him to make the drive alone".
Some people will resort to any excuse, to spend the afternoon at the range.
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We meet the nicest people "At The Range" ... and people wonder why we give free classes?
2 comments:
who needs an excuse?
After reading this, I think I will go spend a cold afternoon at the warm local indoor range.
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