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Episode 390: Revving Up Law Enforcement Training with David Blalock

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FieldCraft Survival

Sports, Wilderness

4.93.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

In this week's podcast, retired LEO, Tactical Driving Instructor, and Defensive Tactics Trainer David Blalock joins Kevin Estela in studio. Blalock served as a police officer before joining Gryphon Group in Maxton, NC. He is currently working on starting up a new company for LEO training called the Toa Group. The two discuss Blalock's career, the nuances of technical driving, training gaps and potential new training opportunities with mobility as the focus.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, welcome to the Field Crafts of All of Podcasts, I'm going to be your host

0:16.1

for this episode.

0:17.1

My name is Kevin Estella.

0:18.1

I'm recording this one here in North Carolina, I've got a good buddy in front of me and

0:21.2

it's actually really exciting because I normally only get to podcast over the phone, but in

0:25.2

this case, I guess lives locally and he wanted to come down.

0:29.2

So I'm going to dedicate this podcast, it's something that I normally don't do to the

0:33.0

memory of two officers and an honor of another officer from my hometown.

0:38.1

Now two days from now, we're going to celebrate the one year or remember the one year anniversary

0:44.0

of a fatal thing that happened in my hometown where Lieutenant Duss in D'Amonte and Sergeant

0:50.6

Alex Hamsey were murdered by an absolute piece of garbage and it was the heroic actions

0:57.9

of officer Alec Arrotto who saved many lives that night.

1:03.6

So I'm dedicating this podcast to the memory of Lieutenant Duss in D'Amonte and Sergeant

1:09.6

Hamsey and an honor of Alex Arrotto.

1:13.7

So good job to all the Bristol PD that are hanging in there and it's very fitting that

1:20.5

my guest today is coinciding with that dedication because he spent many years as law enforcement

1:28.6

he has a very extensive background in defensive driving and executive protection and you name

1:33.9

it all sorts of good stuff and we're going to talk about mobility today, we're going to talk

1:38.2

about driving, we're going to talk about all sorts of wild stuff like I wish I was recording

1:43.3

our just kind of banter back and forth before I hit the record button on this podcast because

1:47.9

there's some good stuff, but I have a funny feeling there's going to be more.

1:51.2

So with me today in the studio again, very rare in the studio is my buddy from Griffin

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