Reviews
Beyond The Holster is an excellent primer for empty-handed defensive skills, particularly for those who carry a gun for self-defense, and lack a martial arts background. A serious problem for people carrying concealed firearms is that a significant number of incidents that might require self-defense, don’t require or justify a firearm or deadly force. It is very important that concealed carry practitioners have an answer to the basic problem of using non-deadly force in self-defense. A lot of people are held back from addressing that need by the difficulty and scope of adopting a full martial arts training program. Beyond The Holster can give you ready-to-use answers immediately, and point you in some productive directions of further training from there. You’ll learn awareness, management of unknown approaching persons, strikes, defenses, grappling, weapon retention, and more.
-Gabriel White
I signed up with Phill for individual instruction on the range, as I had not yet purchased a handgun he was able to provide a wide variety of guns to try and explain the various features & strengths. I shot everything from a custom Browning .22 to SIG 9 mm , .38 and 1911 45. On the second session he also brought a S&W 625 45 ACP revolver in addition to his HK and several smaller handguns just to get a sense of what it’s like to shoot the micro. As a new shooter I never even heard of most of these guns and I don’t know of any other way I could’ve gotten such a great sequence of shooting experience and coaching knowledge prior to purchasing.
Phill is a very patient instructor and provides really insightful lessons on safety, stance, grip, sights, trigger, how to get a good group, and the various levels of proficiency to take you through all the levels of training at PSTC.
I wholeheartedly agree with the saying that it’s better to spend on training than to buy more guns if you want get good at shooting. Training with Phill is worth it!
—Tom R