 | Ed Abalon: "A very nice added bonus for me was that I was able to take the course with my own gun and pocket holster for my .38 SW snub nose. This in my concealed carry gun and in the scenarios I got to really feel what it would be like ... I was able to draw and fire before they stuck or shot me and if I can do it here I feel confident that I can do it on the street or whatever, if it came to that. I have taken several other firearms self defense courses, but here they really did it as close to real life as it possibly could be." |  | Mary: "This was really something different for me. The way it was presented though, and the instructors, made it much easier to make the mental leap to really using a gun on another person when you have to, and discovering that you could if you really had to...that was very valuable for me." |  | Warren Ng: "Shooting at the targets when your are not under that adrenal stress is one thing, but having a living, moving attacker, an actual person come at you like that, and sometimes with a weapon, it changes everything really. I compare it to martial arts training as opposed to actual self defense training like I took in the RMCAT BASICS course. The controlled stress the scenarios put you under makes all the difference in the world." |  | R. Pope: "The hardest part was that I was holding a gun on person, and what do you say to them then? I mean, in a situation like that it's harder than what you see in the movies. How do you get them to know that you really will shoot them if they don't respond to your commands, and when do you shoot? Hitting the target is a lot easier than making the decision when to fire. I am a martial artist and have been if few street fights and I know that sure gets your juice up, but this is really intense too. Making that split second decision when they move... it's a lot harder than I thought it would be." |  | Zach: "I don't carry a gun but this course was very valid for me anyway...It's pretty powerful stuff, making sure you didn't pull the trigger too soon, or too late, that was the main thing to me. It's made me more confident in making that decision under real stess." | |
 | Tobey: (Vietnam Combat Veteran, 2 tours of duty) "It was very educational to see that even at 20 feet away a person with a knife was a real danger to you, even when you had a gun . I see that even at a distance like that you might just have to pull the trigger to save yourself...and you better be moving off his ' attack line ' when you do or you can still be killed. This is just excellent , practical, real world training." |  | Lisa: "I took a course in High School to prepare me to enter the police academy. But the instructor said 'A situation is going to come up where you will have to pull the trigger.' I didn't have the confidence that I could really do that so I dropped the course. Now it's 12 years later and I am surprised to see that I can pull the trigger if the need is there. This course showed me that very clearly too. The course shows you things about yourself, not just about how to handle a gun." |  | Linda: "This is the first time I have even held a gun and I came not this a little apprehensive. It was good, I don't know if I would ever choose to carry a gun. But it was empowering to know I could, that I know how now and that the trigger won't go off if you just touch it. It's a deliberate action and you control the weapon." |  | Dorn: (London England) "It was more of an intellectual exercise for me. (We can't have guns like that in Great Britain.) But I felt comfortable with the gun out, I didn't have to worry about how big the guy was... But it was a bit surprising to see how fast somebody could be on even with your gun out." |  | Harry: "It was really surrealistic actually holding a gun on another human being. I realized that I had never done that before with all the target shooting type stuff I've done, and it was definitely a very different feeling too. Still, I didn't hesitate, the instruction made it clear when you could show the gun or when you were justified in firing. But doing that under stress was the thing though. It really does change everything." | |
