Rethinking Toughness

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...

EDC

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...
Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department

Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department

EPISODE 83 Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department BCSO Special Operations and Air Support We met with the commanders of the Air Unit and SWAT Team for the Bernalillo Co Sheriff in Albuquerque. This is a busy agency with a lot going on. We talk about leadership,...

Athletic Performance

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...

The role of good training

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...