STRATEGIC TRAINING AND CONSULTING - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Founder
• President
• Founder, Owner, & Chief Instructor

State certified concealed carry handgun training in NC & SC, handgun training for women and young adults, firearm safety for children, and advanced pistol training. There are a lot of current and former police and military members that offer firearms and self-defense training. Even though they have had some firearms training in their specific job role, the level of training overall still falls short of making the top 5%. FBI statistics reveal that the accuracy of law enforcement offers falls below 35% in shooting accuracy and most military members have limited firearms training (unless they have graduated into the Special Ops community) and only a scarce few have had instructor training. Only by taking extensive and diverse training from some of the best instructors in the world and dedicating oneself to becoming a student of the gun can one achieve the top percent. When you ask most instructors or shooters why they carry a gun, you typically get the answer of "to protect myself and others", but when you ask them what training they have taken to ensure they are properly trained and qualified to teach others and what other steps they have taken to protect themselves and others (such as being certified in first aid and keeping a first aid kit in their car) you get a look of astonishment from them. The truth is that many instructors offer their time and services for reasons more to the effect of self-fulfillment than to help others. Some do so for little to no money in order to lure students into taking their classes while they tout their expertise by stating they are a certified NRA Basic Pistol Instructor. Even though Bill has obtained a high level of training, he does not claim to be a prophet and acknowledges that he can learn as much from his students as they can from him and he receives more fulfillment and joy from teaching women and young adults who are timid about firearms, how to safely handle and operate them and how to develop better situational awareness to protect themselves out in public than trying to teach advanced tactics. For those wanting to dress-up to be a mall ninja and to become trained on how to repel out of a flaming helicopter or kick-down a door and secure hostages and get screamed at like they are in boot camp, there are plenty of former military and law enforcement instructors out there offering those services. Bill decided to create a company that not only offers some advanced fundamentals of protecting oneself in a civilian environment with a firearm, but examines and addresses the entire concept of safety and personal protection (not just one component of it).

Bruce Lee is a world-famous martial artist whose mastery of martial arts led him to become an actor in many movies. He also has a famous quote that we feel is imperative to our beliefs: "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." This concept (coming from one of the greatest masters of his craft of all-time) addresses the imperativeness to master the basics before going onto the advanced techniques. So many times we witness instructors trying to teach advanced techniques to their students for the thrill, while they watch the students fail because they have not yet helped them to master the basics.