Our Curriculum

When a curriculum is developed by Defensive Shooting Instructors, it must comply with a strict guideline, and be based on, but not limited to the following criteria:

1) Safety - Safety is the number one criteria for any training program conducted by Defensive Shooting Instructors. If it is not safe then we will not do it.

2) Practicality - Each of our curriculums is based on practical application. It is defensive shooting, and we are not here for the entertainment value. If the skill being taught does not have a practical application (i.e. self-defense), then we will not waste your time.

3) Realistic Application - The entire curriculum is based on realistic application. We teach in reality based training, not theory, whenever possible based on tactical application for prevailing in combat - not sport.

4) Consistency - We go to great lengths to provide consistency throughout the curriculums that we intend to teach. We strive, whenever possible, to use a progressive building block approach that continually builds on the topics learned earlier. We can apply this teaching to any of the topics taught at Defensive Shooting Instructors. We teach our curriculums in a pre-determined sequence of events designed to continually enhance the students overall capability. Once the student can perform a certain task we add to it and maintain consistency until the very end where all the topics learned are performed in one complete task. (At Defensive Shooting Instructors we strive to maintain consistency in our curriculum from one instructor to another. There is nothing worse than going to a school that has conflicting information from different instructors. Our staff focuses on teaching with consistency not contradiction or personality based training.)