Aqil Qadir & Tiffany Johnson
November 9 & 10, 2024
Here’s a warning: This AAR is biased as hell.
When I first got into teaching, my first instructor class was taught by Aqil Qadir & Tiffany Johnson. I was not a virgin to training, having received at least 100 hours at this point, including legal and medical.
So I already had bad classes and good classes, but they blew me away. Their empathy and thoughtfulness are so incredibly rare in this industry dominated by ego and “Look At Me.”
So there’s some bias. If you ask around, you’ll learn that it’s deserved.
Goals: To overcome the problems you normally see when training beginners, and to strengthen your ability to transfer knowledge to them.
Requirements: A little ammo and a lot of “Give-A-Damn.” We only shot 80 rounds, but this isn’t a shooting class. It’s a “Teach the Teacher” class. You can’t sleep thru this, and you probably won’t be able to if you tried.
Acclaim: HIGH.
Make no mistake. No one in the industry is better at teaching beginners than Aqil Qadir & Tiffany Johnson. If you don’t believe me, search for either name on YouTube, and check out their delivery yourself.
Aqil is wise and experienced. Decades of teaching and service in law enforcement brings valuable expertise. He has mastered to lay out things in simple terms, while maintaining empathy. He can show you your flaws without making you feel stupid, and he’ll go the extra mile to help you fix them.
Tiffany Johnson provides a perspective that wasn’t born and raised into gun ownership. Her Ph.D and academic career provide proven methodologies that simply WORK. She can polish your delivery so that people will want to listen to you. Together, you get the best of both worlds.
Difficulty: This is HARD!
This job requires confidence, but a lot of my peers have a hard time staying humble. It’s hard to see the problems that lie within yourself without blaming your students. If a class has a problem and your first impulse is to blame your students, you’re gonna struggle. Ask me how I know.
Efficacy: 10 out of 10.
Everything about this class just works. It simply works. Before lunch on Training Day 1, I had answers to all the questions I ever had about beginners. The rest of the time, we had answered questions that I never even thought to ask.
Summary:
Yeah, there’s bias here. They’ve earned my bias. They deserve the opinion that I have of them. I’m not even sorry about it, and I’m not the only one that feels that way.
Here’s my question for you:
What are your goals?
Do you want your students to be just like you? Do you want them to try to be just like you? Think long and hard about why that is.
There’s a small group of us that want our students to develop their own goals and chase their own dreams. If that’s you, then you need to contact Citizens Safety Academy. That’s the kind of stuff I learned from “Aq” & “Tiff.”
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