With a traditional course, you see the lesson once and then get one chance to practice. By training online with me, you can watch the lesson as many times as you need, then spend your time practicing and perfecting your skills.

A traditional one-day firearms course by a certified instructor will cost between $250 and $750, so we'll discuss the middle ground at $500. You'll also need to pay for ammunition, food, travel, and... Well, let's just leave all that stuff out and say it costs $500 a day for a traditional course. A chrissajnog.com membership cost less than a dollar a day ($0.67) with no other costs. OK, add in your internet connection if you want, but I'm guessing you'd pay for that either way!

With the New Rules of Marksmanship, you'll be using scientifically proven training techniques to dramatically reduce the time it takes to acquire new skills. Specifically, the training technique called dedicated practice is something that training at home allows but is nearly impossible at a traditional course unless you're training one on one with a knowledgeable instructor.

A traditional firearms training course, you'll get one, maybe two chances to see a technique performed. By training online with me, you can watch the technique as many times as you need. Say you haven't practiced a skill in a month or two and you want a refresher. just watch it again and make sure you're practicing properly. If you want to see a traditional instructor do a technique again a month later, you'll need to sign up for another class.

If you're like me, you've got other things you need to do on any given day and fitting in range time often gets bumped down the list of priorities. When I was in SEAL Teams, I was paid to go shooting. Now I have a wife and kids, and of course they are my priority. By having your lessons online and available to you twenty-four hours a day and anywhere in the world, you set the schedule. The five minutes you have before taking your kid to soccer can now be spent watching a lesson or doing some dry fire training at home.

The training you'll do with my unique New Rules style of dry weapons training is completely safe. By definition, dry fire training involves no ammunition. If you have no ammunition, unless you drop your gun on your toe, it's impossible to get hurt. At traditional range with live ammunition, you stand a chance of shooting yourself, especially when you're first learning. Someone else could also shoot you. (Do you do background and skills check on everyone else at the range?)

Unless you hire an instructor for a private lesson, you're going to get a course that's been planned out before you even got there. With my online training, you can pick the lessons you need and get help on your specific issues. You'll also be able to learn at your own pace. We all learn different things at different paces, and at a traditional course, you can easily be left behind or left standing there waiting for the others to catch up. With my online training, you can hit forward or pause as much as you need.

Every time you perform a skill, like shooting, your body builds a neural pathway making it easier for you to do that movement again (and harder for you to do any other movement). It doesn't matter whether the gun goes bang or you have to pick up brass afterward, you are building neural pathways. Learning new skills or even improving current skills at a traditional firearms training course involves stress. This stress causes mistakes in technique, which you repeatedly practice and ingrain in your neural pathways. In contrast, by training with me online, you will learn each technique perfectly and build perfect neural pathways. Once you’ve learned the proper way to shoot and have practiced until perfect, then go to the range. It will save you a lot of time, money and needless frustration.

There are some very good firearms instructors out there. The problem is, you’ll need to sift through the majority of people — who just say they are instructors because they were in the military, law enforcement, or their grandpa just taught them really well — to find the good ones. I am a DOD certified Master Training Specialist, I’ve been to several instructor development courses, I’m a certified federal and state firearms instructor, and because of my skills as an instructor, I was hand-selected to write the training curriculum for the U.S. Navy SEAL sniper course. I’m a certified law enforcement firearms instructor, I’m an instructor-trainer, meaning I can train and certify others as instructors, I’ve written two bestselling books on how to shoot, and developed the New Rules of Marksmanship, a fundamental shift in how we learn to shoot.

Everyone knows that cramming for a test does not work. Well, that’s what you’re doing by going to a traditional course to learn how to shoot. Getting all the information at one time leads to cognitive overload (drinking from a fire hydrant) and you will not retain most of the information. Studies have also shown that it’s critical to spread out your practice, called spaced repetition, to improve retention. So this means it’s better to practice a skill once a day over ten days than to do the same amount of practice all at once…like at traditional course.