That's what a lot of people fail to realize or notice. Each instructor attracts a certain demographic of people. Some intend to and others probably don't even think about it. Many go for new shooters because its realistically the largest sector of the market, especially at this point in time.They've taken a lot of training and opened up a business of training new shooters, based on what they've learned. They do a good job of bringing in a crop of new shooters from the NutnFancy generation by embracing social media and there is nothing wrong with that, it's actually pretty smart business.
But most of us here are experienced shooters... and take the same classes they do. If you want to be a youtube fanboy and train with them, it's all good, helll you might end up in a video. I've trained under Coach and Glock21 (Fortress Defense Consultants) here in Indiana and would recommend them to anyone here, their skill and experience are top notch.
Hey, my apologies gents... It was late last night and I turned into a troll. Please don't get angry at any of my misplaced comments as an attack on anyone's integrity. Again, I would like this post to serve as an apology to the whole of INGO.
Like the punRep'd. It takes class to publicly admit a mistake.
*picks mic back up and politely hands it to you*
I'd rather be in the Hickok45 generation.
Calm, cool, collected, and bad ass.
I can do loud and obnoxious pretty well.
I cannot prove it (don't know if the scores are still around) but I beat Cory in one of my first three IDPA matches.
I am hosting a women's event in Terre Haute this coming Sunday. There is training around. I am going to call those comments marketing. JY does not a thing or two about marketing.
A training void? In central Indiana? I have to disagree there.
In addition to the buttload of local instructors like ACT, BFT, Mindset Lab, Boone County Sheriff's Dept Gunsite Courses, Cory and Erika, Suarez International and the eleventy bajillion who advertise on this forum who aren't coming to mind right now, we have a bunch who travel through. Off the top of my head, I can think of several big names who travel through with some frequency. Several of them come at least annually.
John Farnam
Louis Awerbuck
DTI
Doc Gunn
Travis Hailey (hosted by Cory and Erika)
Todd Green
Massad Ayoob
Shiv Works
Pat Rogers
I'm sure there are others I'm leaving out. I'm just not sure I see the void.
I like Coach, have taken a class or two from him, recommend them to others, and offered to help out with his events. However, Im not sure a better IDPA score is the best measure of who offers the better class. I have never met Cory. So, I can't speak to his classes or his teaching. It doesn't look to me like they are necessarily marketing to the same parts of the shooting community. Or maybe they are, but appear to be reaching different parts of it.
I only ran in one match. And took it SLOW to get the feel. We did not go in to win anything. Just to see what it was about. Having said that i did place well in my class. First i think. I didnt run a race gun like some. We just wanted to have fun.
Coach is a USPSA guy that iirc only rather recently joined IDPA. I have no doubt the match you attended was one of his first.First few? Thats a LIE!! Ive only ran one IDPA match. And Erika and i both took our SLOW sweet time because it was our first one. So I hope to GOD you beat me if you have been shooting IDPA that long and on top of that with a RACE gun.. I ran a stock glock and ran each stage slow to get the feel for IDPA. I believe even going slow I still placed #1 in the stock guns. Also i was talking about Terre Haute area.
The don't. Unless you don't know what you're talking about and consider a "custom defensive pistol" a "race gun".When did they start allowing RACE guns in IDPA??
I only ran in one match. And took it SLOW to get the feel. We did not go in to win anything. Just to see what it was about. Having said that i did place well in my class. First i think. I didnt run a race gun like some. We just wanted to have fun.
Coach is a USPSA guy that iirc only rather recently joined IDPA. I have no doubt the match you attended was one of his first.
The don't. Unless you don't know what you're talking about and consider a "custom defensive pistol" a "race gun".
Driving my civic quickly doesn't make it a "race car".
Nothing says RACE gun like a 100+ year old design with 8rd mags.
Cory...do you compete in any of the shooting sports? If so, what is your stance on competition in regards to aiding or hurting in a self defense situation?
Coach is a USPSA guy that iirc only rather recently joined IDPA. I have no doubt the match you attended was one of his first.
The don't. Unless you don't know what you're talking about and consider a "custom defensive pistol" a "race gun".
Driving my civic quickly doesn't make it a "race car".