For over 30 years I have been an avid shooter of everything from slingshots to automatic weapons, I learned to shoot from my step father, and later from multiple classes and courses of fire provided by various government and civilian training centers. These learning opportunities taught me how to shoot standing, sitting, lying down, upside down and contorted into every shape imaginable. I learned to shoot with my strong side and my weak side, with both eyes open and with limited visibility. None of these courses ever taught me how to shoot injured, I’m not talking about the proverbial you were hit in your arm or leg, but how to stay in the fight while nearly incapacitated.
I learned the hard way that I can’t shoot the way i used to anymore. my stance is pretty much non existent, i cant move worth a darn, and the odds of me falling back to cover or evasive movements are simply a no go. This was more than a little humbling and to be perfectly honest it is when I tried to take up a shooting stance a few months back that i truly realized just how injured i truly was.

I have had to relearn many of the skills instilled into me by various instructors, adjusting my stance to compensate for the dislocated hip, adjust my grip for my now slightly weaker right arm, and to become more aware of my surroundings when I am carrying , i  do not have the ability to retreat if I am threatened nor am i able to go to cover and the chances of me winning in a hand to hand fight in my current physical condition is nil.
All of this began me to begin thinking about the perceived lack of training for those who want to defend themselves from harm but are ill suited to the current trend of tacticool shooting classes. I have reached out to several instructors about what I have found and they have all said that if faced with a person who wasn’t capable of doing the class as taught they would try to accommodate their needs within the space of the course. although they meant well I think the idea of trying to wedge the student into the particular class isnt helping the student, the need for an adaptive class geared toward the particular limitation of the shooter should be created.

I have started investigating based on my own limitations and am slowly coming up with a course that I hope to begin teaching when I myself am more mobile.

i will expand upon this as time goes on I am sure.