Backsteprescue's Blog – June 2011 Archive (2)

Training.... Or a Lack Thereof

Every department trains.  Some departments train weekly, monthly, daily, etc.  My question for you is:



HOW do you train?



I already talked about practicing like you play and training hard, so lets talk about training CORRECTLY.



I, sadly, know of more than a few fire departments that are stuck in

their old ways.  They train using the same methods that the old salts

learned when they were in the academy.  This is not completely a bad

thing, as using… Continue

Added by backsteprescue on June 27, 2011 at 12:32pm — No Comments

Practice Like You Play

I'm sure that many of you have heard this saying, whether it was on the baseball field, basketball court, or maybe even on the training ground, but do you follow it?



If you lag behind and don't take your training seriously, how can you expect to do a job right on the fireground?  Especially at 3am.... you're not going to have time to think, normal people would be sleeping but the tones and bells just dropped and woke you up from a dream about being on a desert island with a horde of… Continue

Added by backsteprescue on June 3, 2011 at 12:05pm — 1 Comment

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