The Second-Best Time Is Today. Category: Training Philosophy Read time: ~8 minutes We hear it across the counter almost every week. Some version of: "I've been meaning to take a class." "I should probably learn this stuff at some point." "Once things settle down, I'll get around to it." The instinct is right. The timeline is wrong. The person saying it already understands, somewhere in the back of their mind, that being able to protect themselves and the people they love is n

Most people picture self-defense as a single dramatic moment — the door kicked in, the parking lot confrontation, the figure stepping out of the shadows. What gets lost in that mental movie is everything that happens in the seconds and minutes around it. Who's coming to help. How long it takes. And what you're supposed to do while you wait. I've spent more than four decades teaching people how to defend themselves — with handguns, rifles, shotguns, Byrna launchers, Tasers, pe