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What could possibly be learned from training things like weapon retention, close quarter combat, and gunfighting when your opponent is nothing but a paper target?

And yet, this is the status of so many training protocols found in law enforcement.

Leave it to Jeff Gonzalez and Craig Douglas to save you from toll I'm smoking.

Hey, Power Apping Nation.

Welcome to another episode of the premier podcast of Strength Conditioning.

I am joined by some unique individuals today, and it's pretty cool because we actually get to have sitting across the table for some that we've been planning a vortex.

We've been prepping for this for years, and the fact that we finally get to do it I'm pretty excited so we're joined by mr. Jeff Gonzalez yes sir and his good friend Craig

Douglas that's correct absolutely we are both here sitting across from you and as I was mentioning earlier

I have to avert my eyes every now and then well

it's cool I mean geez we've known each other almost 10 years now over 10 years

easily over 10 years yeah yeah and I love to tell the story about how John and I met

because what a lot of people don't realize is that like at that point in my life I was

kind of post-divorce,

and it was in a really shitty place physically, emotionally.

And we started on a project that was, first of all, awesome.

It was revolutionary for me as far as, like, the physical conditioning that I went through with that.

And what I was most impressed with was just how well you were able to put it together so easily we sat down and brainstormed and I think we did that for about three years three years and I can I attribute everything that I have right now all the physical attributes that I have right now to that three-year period of just just just

hard work just moving it every day and it was fantastic so you know that built that

built the foundation for the for the success of our relationship but then we had a

great quid pro quo because you were excited to to take on the new challenges of the

shooting world and so that's kind of like how everything kind of started. I remember the first time we went to, what was the name of that place? Rahagi. Yeah. And we went there like, wasn't it like a week or a day after somebody was killed on the range from a rickish? Yeah, no. Some guy went out there and basically had a suicide. Yeah. Yeah. So that was like a good way to start our trip out there. Don't you remember they had all this paperwork?

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