by Mike | Jul 8, 2018 | Bulletin
FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN K9 Story of the Day My K9 partner and I recently worked with a team of Officers to arrest a man who ran from a stolen car with a 10-inch hunting knife on his belt. No one was more surprised than me when he crashed through...
by Mike | Jul 1, 2018 | Bulletin
FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN Situational Awareness “You weren’t paying attention.” “YOU NEED BETTER S-A!” Many trainers (including me) have said something like this to a rookie after a situation where details went unnoticed or unheeded, but it does...
by Mike | Jun 24, 2018 | Bulletin
FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN RETHINKING TOUGHNESS I have been thinking a lot about fitness lately. I hit a phase of life where I consciously started to consider the need to take care of myself. Past 30, it gets harder to “cram” for a fitness test or...
by Mike | Jun 17, 2018 | Bulletin
FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN REAL TALK ON EVERY DAY CARRY One of the concepts I teach to police recruits their first day of the academy is the “Officer Safety Pyramid.” I didn’t come up with this idea (it’s part of the AZ POST curriculum), but the...
by Mike | Jun 9, 2018 | Bulletin
FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN THE “TACTICAL” ATHLETE: MEANT FOR FIGHTING! I’ll be the first to tell you that I’m not any sort of athlete. But at various times in my life I’ve tried to step up my game so I could at least pretend to keep up...
by Mike | Jun 6, 2018 | Bulletin
FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN What is the role of training? Every day you spend doing “…whatever it is you do here,” you’re programming yourself for the future. Sometimes I ask myself what habits I picked up by accident. After years of working...
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