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The instructor can’t do it all for you. Skill maintenance is the individual practitioner’s job. Martial artists and physiologists tell us that it takes 3,000 to 7,000 repetitions to create enough-long term muscle memory that you can perform a complex psycho-motor skill, such as drawing and firing a pistol, in the “automatic pilot” mode that trainers call Unconscious Competence. One intense week a year at the gym, and 51 weeks as a couch potato, won’t keep your body in shape. That kind of regimen won’t keep your combat handgun skills in shape, either.

Learn to draw from compromised positions. This officer clears an issue DAO Beretta Model 8040 from a Safariland 070 security holster while seated in vehicle.

By now you should have found at least one gun/holster combination that works well for you. Stay with it for a while. Don’t try to buy skill at the gunshop. Buy ammo or reloading components there instead, to better reinforce and enhance the skills you already have.

Sometimes intense training can hurt. Allan Brummer takes a full power hit of OC pepper foam…