OpSpec Training is heading back to Mesa, Arizona this December. We most recently held a class at Rio Salado in December 2016 and we’re looking forward to heading back. This first week in December has provided us great conditions and weather for training and it’s the perfect location to introduce our new class – Applied Fundamentals. For all the details on the class, click here and for information specific to this class in Mesa, click here.
If you’re an intermediate shooter, competitor, or law enforcement officer looking to improve your pistol skills at speed, the three-day Applied Fundamentals is the accelerated program for you. The class focuses on mental planning as a method to run your handgun at speed in a variety of conditions.
You’ll be shooting approximately 1,800 rounds during the intensive three-day program. This is not a course for a beginner.
Applied Fundamentals The goal of Applied Fundaments is to take the building blocks shooters have learned in Practical Fundamentals or other trigger control-based programs and learn to apply those skills methodically to solve shooting problems. Learn more about this program right here.
Instructors*: HR Hawkins
When: Dec. 7 - 9, 2017, with exact times to be determined.
Class size: Limited to 16 students, with a minimum of 12 students.
Tuition: $675, with a $225 deposit
Range Fees: $20 per day
Local Host: Alan Haynie
Ammunition: Round count for this class will be about 1,800 rounds, 600 per day
* Instructors listed for specific programs have committed to teach the class on those dates. Although we do not anticipate changes, travel delays, family emergencies or illness may result in instructor substitutions.
Where: Rio Salado Sportsman’s Club Mesa, Arizona
Where to Stay Country Inn & Suites by Carlson 6650 E. Superstition Springs Mesa, Ariz. 85206 For reservations, call direct (480) 641-8000. We are working to arrange a discounted rate if possible.
Food at Lunch Break To ensure you get the most "bang for your buck" we keep lunch breaks to one hour. If you have the ability to bring your lunch, you may do so. There are a few fast food choices 15 minutes or less from the range including Subway and Wendy’s.This message has been edited. Last edited by: steve495,
Evil exists. You can not negotiate with, bribe or placate evil. You're not going to be able to have it sit down with Dr. Phil for an anger management session either.
July 28, 2017, 11:01 AM
Davenator
Looks like a very neat class.
Just to clarify, you guys are running this class on Thurs, Fri, Sat?
July 28, 2017, 11:40 AM
jljones
Yes, it is Thurs-Sat. The host takes Sunday off, so that is how we scheduled it.
The course is a great addition that I am proud of our staff for coming up with. The concept is outstanding. In a line with 10-20 other shooters you can hide from the instructors by not using correct fundamentals to fix the marksmanship problem that is thrown at you. In this course, it forces compliance making each shot that goes down range an outstanding learning opportunity.
We do a really good job of providing a lot of one on one coaching in our other classes. Keeping that 3-5 students per instructor is what we strive for. This sets us up for lots of one on one and the level of safety we are known for. But, this new class sets the bar much higher. The course has been used by a federal agency over the last year, and has shown results that can't be argued with in cultivating individual shooters.
"It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it works out for them"
July 28, 2017, 08:41 PM
Tgrshrk99
Jerry, I'm curious. How does this compare to MOAC?
July 29, 2017, 07:58 AM
hrhawk
As an OpSpec Student and instructor, and as a guy who has been a part of MOAC, this class is a culmination of ideas that have been brewing for some time.
For your consideration....
MOAC is the extreme application of marksmanship at speed. It focuses on understanding goals in given scenarios and applying a risk reward analysis with regard to how that problem may best be resolve. More simply put...finding the edge, and staying there for a while, so that we may maximize our performance/effectiveness.
Applied Fundamentals is the mathematics that gets us closer to that edge so we waste less time once we get there. Shooters will be asked to take a hard look at whether they are actually utilizing the techniques they require to make effective hits. They will then be given a tool we have developed to force them, at speed, into making better choices and choosing the correct technique, in order to stave off the panic that often creeps into our shooting.
If we were to think of shooting at high levels as a calculus problem. MOAC would be about limits and continuity, AF is about integration... the area under the curve and how we use that information.
More simply, it's another piece of fruit just below the branch MOAC hangs on.
As usual I am super excited to be hosting Opspec again this year. Anyone thinking about if from out of town can feel free to contact me directly for questions you may have, and as always I am happy to have you drop ship ammo to me if you want.
Gonna be a great class!
NRA Certified instructor, and Range Safety officer
Hotel update, my contact at the County inn and Suites has changed jobs so I don't know if we are going to get the good rate again there or not. I am reaching out to see if I have other contacts at other hotels. Stay tuned before you book your hotel room.
NRA Certified instructor, and Range Safety officer
Originally posted by amhaynie: Hotel update, my contact at the County inn and Suites has changed jobs so I don't know if we are going to get the good rate again there or not. I am reaching out to see if I have other contacts at other hotels. Stay tuned before you book your hotel room.
Evil exists. You can not negotiate with, bribe or placate evil. You're not going to be able to have it sit down with Dr. Phil for an anger management session either.
September 10, 2017, 05:28 PM
hrhawk
Bump for a brand new offering from OpSpec Training! Come on out and see what we've come up with for you.This message has been edited. Last edited by: hrhawk,
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September 27, 2017, 05:07 PM
hrhawk
quote:
Originally posted by RNshooter: I liked Rio Salado, last year!
"The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams
“It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken
Evil exists. You can not negotiate with, bribe or placate evil. You're not going to be able to have it sit down with Dr. Phil for an anger management session either.
Evil exists. You can not negotiate with, bribe or placate evil. You're not going to be able to have it sit down with Dr. Phil for an anger management session either.
