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Don’t be afraid to ask for a personal assessment or a little extra help. Any instructor worth his or her title will take it as a compliment that you asked, not as an imposition.

Self-defense training goes beyond shooting. Do you know self-treatment for a gunshot injury if you’re alone and wounded? Paramedic and LFI Staff Instructor Bob Smith demonstrates for a class.

Journeyman Level

You have progressed. You’re into this stuff now. You want to get better. Yes!

Remember at this stage that revelatory, life-changing experiences tend to come one to a customer. After you’ve become a reasonably good shot, further improvement will probably be incremental. In your first few schools in a discipline, you’re trying to absorb it all and wondering if you’re a bad person because you might have missed some small point. As time progresses and you get more courses under your belt, some of what you hear at successive schools will sound familiar. That’s OK. It never hurts to reinforce and validate something positive that you’ve already learned. You’ll be all the more appreciative when you do pick up something new, and all the more insightful when you put that new knowledge to use.