That's right, we said it (albeit on Rob's behalf). Get your ass to shooting. You want a real resolution this year? Put fifty rounds a month downrange, every month. Just fifty. You're better off doing that  than doing one thousand-round course each year anyway. Our theory is, you should be a training whore. (Or slut, whatever.) Train all the time, take every class you can. Don't rely on your department or your unit. At a minimum, take one professional development course every year. Doesn't have to be a two-week advanced hunter gunman killer beret course. Spend a weekend with some professionals that might knock some of the rough edges off, or maybe teach you something you've never seen. By and large there are very few courses you can't take something away from. Yes there may be cost, but how much money is your life worth? Your partner's? Your family? You may also make some good friends and getcha some treasured memories, you never know. We were lucky enough to train with both Mas Ayoob and Jim Cirillo (Cirillo the Great) in the same year...that may not mean much to you, but it was sure cool as shit to us.

Anyway, back to Rob Pincus. We like Rob, and we think he's a damn good instructor. Yes, he may wear man panties on occasion, sure sometimes you have to jump around a little to keep his attention, but he's a great guy, he's got an excellent sense of humor and he genuinely gives a shit that you leave one of his classes better prepared to fight and prevail than you were when you came in. He's also one of the busiest, hardest working guys in the industry. Granted, he might be able to relax if he wore boxer briefs once in a while but then he wouldn't be nearly as animated in class.

Here's the bottom line. Even if you don't pursue a class with PDN, you need to do something.

Don't be fucktarded. Go train. You can't count on God to miracle your bullets where they're supposed to go, and hoping the assholes shooting at you are more fucktarded (i.e. lesser prepared) than you is a pretty frail reed upon which to hang your life.

For more about the upcoming Personal Defense Training Network tour, check out this PDN page.

If you want, we will consider running our own Don't Be Fucktarded Go Train World Tour of our own, but in the meantime start looking for something in your area.

We're the Mad Duo, and not only did we approve this message, if you don't like it or if you can't remember to take your fucking hat off during the National Anthem then we cordially invite you to choke on some Taliban's shaggy cock'n'balls.