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<blockquote data-quote="Chuck S" data-source="post: 63674" data-attributes="member: 119"><p>I took the SDA instructor course at Shoot-N-Iron in March/April. The following is my opinion. I would not take any other classes there. If you were to cut out all the "war stories" and the different sales pitches for the other classes offered there, you could have probably cut the class length by half. Now having been a professional instructor in the Army, I understand the usefulness of war stories. You can definately overdo it though. </p><p>The training didnt seem to "flow" all that great either. Like they werent all that prepared for it. First time giving it obivously. Of course, most of that could be attributed to the courseware.</p><p>Actual scheduling of the class was pretty bad. A couple of hours of classroom Friday night. Saturday was cancelled due to weather. Of course a lot of us were in from out of town, staying in hotels. They didnt notify me until I got to the facility Sat morning of the cancellation. Had to return a month later to finish the course. Spent 4-5 hours on that Saturday standing in the rain (not sprinkle, cow pi$$ing on a flat rock rain) trying to get through the course of fire. That was a struggle for all. Then more classroom. Sunday was supposed to be more range, but range was deemed to be not necessary. We were all still waterlogged from the previous day so that was no big deal.</p><p>The instructors seem to be great guys that know their stuff.</p><p>Caveat- This is my sole "training session" as a civilian (excluding the SDA class). My only experience that I have to compare this to is numerous classes, both as student and instructor in over 23 years service in the Army. So I suppose that this could be considered "the norm".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chuck S, post: 63674, member: 119"] I took the SDA instructor course at Shoot-N-Iron in March/April. The following is my opinion. I would not take any other classes there. If you were to cut out all the "war stories" and the different sales pitches for the other classes offered there, you could have probably cut the class length by half. Now having been a professional instructor in the Army, I understand the usefulness of war stories. You can definately overdo it though. The training didnt seem to "flow" all that great either. Like they werent all that prepared for it. First time giving it obivously. Of course, most of that could be attributed to the courseware. Actual scheduling of the class was pretty bad. A couple of hours of classroom Friday night. Saturday was cancelled due to weather. Of course a lot of us were in from out of town, staying in hotels. They didnt notify me until I got to the facility Sat morning of the cancellation. Had to return a month later to finish the course. Spent 4-5 hours on that Saturday standing in the rain (not sprinkle, cow pi$$ing on a flat rock rain) trying to get through the course of fire. That was a struggle for all. Then more classroom. Sunday was supposed to be more range, but range was deemed to be not necessary. We were all still waterlogged from the previous day so that was no big deal. The instructors seem to be great guys that know their stuff. Caveat- This is my sole "training session" as a civilian (excluding the SDA class). My only experience that I have to compare this to is numerous classes, both as student and instructor in over 23 years service in the Army. So I suppose that this could be considered "the norm". [/QUOTE]
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