After-action reviews connect a course’s curriculum with the student experience: what was taught, where performance broke down, and what students carried into later practice. Primary & Secondary ModCast 198 reviews Chuck Pressburg’s No Fail Pistol course through both instructor and student perspectives.
Host Matt Landfair is joined by Chuck Pressburg, Dakota Shafer, Matt Sproul, and Erik Tweedt to discuss the course, its performance standards, and the lessons revealed when accuracy, accountability, and pressure are combined.
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Discussion overview
The panel reflects on No Fail Pistol as a demanding handgun course rather than a collection of isolated drills. The discussion focuses on standards, accountability for every shot, diagnosing performance, and using course feedback to guide continued practice after students return home.
Host and panel
- Host: Matt Landfair
- Panel: Chuck Pressburg, Dakota Shafer, Matt Sproul, and Erik Tweedt
Key areas explored
- Student expectations and observations from the No Fail Pistol course
- Accuracy, accountability, and performance standards
- The effect of time pressure and consequence on decision-making
- Diagnosing errors instead of treating a missed standard as the diagnosis
- Balancing speed with the precision a target requires
- How instructor feedback changes a student’s practice priorities
- Turning a course experience into a sustainable training plan
- Using honest assessment to expose and address weak points
Making an AAR useful
A useful after-action review does more than praise or criticize a class. It identifies the course’s purpose, describes how the material was presented, records where the student struggled, and turns those observations into specific work. Listeners considering similar training can use this discussion to decide whether the course’s demands match their needs.
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Related concepts: No Fail Pistol, Chuck Pressburg, Presscheck Consulting, pistol training AAR, handgun accuracy, shooting standards, accountability, performance under pressure, diagnostic shooting, deliberate practice, and firearms instruction.
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This episode was originally released June 25, 2019. Course structure, affiliations, and enrollment information may have changed; verify current details with the training provider.