Hi Bar Training™

A common problem for professional athletes is balancing training intensity to peak at the proper time (the Olympics, World Series, Super Bowl, etc).  The fear is that the athlete will “over-train” and enter the event physically or psychologically fatigued, or that the athlete will have failed to fully prepare and will be unable to perform at their full potential.  Sports psychologists and coaches have developed increasingly complex programs to help prepare elite athletes.  It has become a sport within a sport.  There are literally millions of dollars on the line in sponsorships and payouts.

Professional law enforcement and the armed citizen share the same challenges as the athlete.  You obviously want to have a full and complete set of skills to defend yourself from a violent attack.  While there is some risk of over-training, I suspect the majority of us should be more concerned with a lack of preparedness.  If you knew the date, time, and circumstances of the fight for your life I assume that you’d either: a) not be there, or b) prepare to fight.

The problem, of course, is that you don’t know when you’ll be assaulted.  Athletes know when they’ll perform, and the games they play have well defined rules and even referees.

Armed professionals have to be ready to play on any given day, at any time, regardless of the weather.  There are no rules to surviving an assault, and there will not be a referee to adjudicate.  There is only surviving – or getting killed.

But how do we find the balance between training and our daily lives?  We can’t simply train constantly.  I think the problem is two-fold.  First, we don’t train enough.  And second, we don’t maximize our training time.

Like all truly complex subjects, it sounds simple.  Train more and train better (train more better?).  But how do we build a world-class training program that maximizes our chances of survival while balancing our duties to our families and communities?  I propose that we use the same scientific approach that professional athletes use.

One of the key components to a successful training program is to ensure that the desired skills are transferred into the student’s long-term memory.  Once the teach, coach, mentor cycle of traditional training is complete, how do we measure skill transfer?

To measure training success, place the student under stress.  Bar is a unit of measure roughly equal to the atmospheric pressure of the Earth at sea level.  Simulated stress using accelerated heart rate, timed drills, and other stressors will allow an effective assessment of both the students performance, and the efficacy of your training program.  Under increased pressure, the problems or shortfalls in your training paradigm will be exaggerated.

The Jedburgh Hi Bar Training™ concept proposes to meet this need.  Whether the training covers firearms or tactics, we have developed a method of instruction to successfully transfer skills to the student, followed by a stress-filled evaluation designed to objectively determine whether learning has been achieved.

If your training program is still using qualification standards to measure performance, you aren’t preparing your officers to survive a violent assault.  Jedburgh has developed the most innovative training programs available anywhere.  Based on years of personal combat experience by Special Forces, our firearms training is firmly grounded in the realities of modern gunfighting.

We’d like to opportunity to train with you or your agency.  Contact us at info@Jedburgh-USA.com for scheduling.