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I've taken Paul's Class, as a civilian, and I've got the documentation to prove it if anyone really wanted to see.

My instructors consisted of a retired swat guy out of MD and an active PA State Trooper, both certified instructors in the system.

Speaking from a personal standpoint, it corrected a few problems I had. I've got super long arms. If I do a standard press-out with a handgun, it waved around a lot and would give me a lot of inconsistency. I also would get fatigued if I had to stay in that position for an extended duration.

Holding the pistol close to me corrected all of that right away.

As far as using cross dominant eye, I had a bad eye problem that I had surgery for in my teens, which reduced it from a bad problem to a manageable one, but it still exists, so I couldn't really use my left eye when I shoot with my strong side. I had to do without that unless I was shooting left handed and using my right eye.

The only thing was that I went through only the handgun portion and they didn't beat on us as a military class would tend to do. If you didn't get something right, you did it again without having to do 50 pushups.

The weapons retentions aspect of the training is great. The instructors said if you take nothing else away from the class, take the weapons retention portion.

Unfortunately, as a civilian now, training in this fashion is really difficult to find. As much as I want to, and as hard as I would work during the course, no one would take me in a tactical course and throw me into a team consisting of a bunch of LEOs or .mil personnel. So basically I have nothing to compare it to in terms of other 'systems', but I walked out of there with a lot of knowledge and new abilities.

So in closing, I found it informative and fun at the same time. And if anyone in the PA/MD/VA area needs a guy as a filler for training (I'll even be the bad guy), just let me know. I'll even dress the part if you don't mind obsolete BDUs.