Train to Win

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Summary: Train to Win A Must for Law Enforcement Trainers
Review: Train To Win is as important a manuscript for the modern law enforcement trainer as I have read in many years. In this book, author Wes Doss had the courage to say what many of us have been thinking since the word "survival" was drummed into our heads in our academy training: that training officers to survive is not enough; our responsibility as professional instructors is to teach our officers to WIN!

In Train To Win, Mr. Doss takes issue with what he calls individuals driven by the almighty dollar who are concocting training programs and techniques that are flashy and expensive, but are not relevant or practical. In fact, he says, many of these self-proclaimed "experts" have never been in a high-risk situation, nor do they understand the complications and after-effects of the encounter. I wholeheartedly agree.

Mr. Doss, on the other hand, is a seasoned law enforcement, military and self-protection professional whose experience is well articulated throughout the book. His manuscript brings together what we have learned over many years of training for and researching (especially in the areas of force application, adult learning, stress and sports performance) incidents in the real world.

Train To Win is a must read for every contemporary law enforcement instructor. It teaches us how to drive home the most important point of our mission: train the people for whom we are responsible to go home after every shift in the same condition they came to work that day.