 Hey everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense and today we're going to talk about The Seasat Way by Mr. Paul Howe. This is the second book that I have read by Mr. Paul Howe and as far as I know it's only his second book and I like it. Again, was a huge fan of leadership and training for the fight. I thought that was a very helpful book. In fact, in my video on the first five books you should read, that book is number five. It's a great book on books you should read for learning about guns in this world of things. So this is The Seasat Way. His company is called Seasat Combat Shooting and Tactics I think is what it stands for. They're out of Texas and he's been teaching guns for probably almost as long as I've been alive and I think he's got a lot of valuable things to say that come across very well in this book. One of the things that I like about Paul Howe and his both of his books is that he writes his books from a perspective of helping you become a teacher, helping you become a leader, helping you become someone who not necessarily can do what he does, although I think you could use this for that. I'm using this for that. But to really help you be able to understand how to help people get better and he's helping try to push you up that ladder. We all kind of start here with shooting and we learn to do the pew-pews and the draws and the reloads and the malfunction fixes and all that stuff and then maybe you get a rifle and you learn to do it there. But then there's other stuff and there's like tactics and CQB stuff and field movements and working with a partner and whatever. And then at some point though we need to transition into being leaders and helping other people get there. If you're just constantly learning and you're constantly going to those classes to just really perfect your draw, I mean that's good but there's a much bigger world for you there, much bigger world for you there. And I like this book because he's helping you get to that bigger world. Again this book I would say is primarily written for people who teach guns or who want to teach guns and it's going to help you understand how to teach better. I would say that that's really the primary purpose of this book and really one of the reasons that I like it. There's some things in my classes that I'm going to change as a result of this book and I'm thankful for it. I think it's a good book. I've never been out to see Paul Howe, never met him in person or anything, never taken his classes, none of that. I only read his two books and a big, big fan. One of the things I like in this book is he's big on taking notes which is great and what he does is he leaves these little side sections, these little extra margins here for notes. He even labels it notes up there so that you can write notes in the book. And I think that's really cool. I've never seen a book do that before and when you're serious about taking notes and leaving sections in your book so people can take notes, that's pretty smart. The one downside I will say about this book and I blame Reed Hendricks for this because he self-published his own book and I know him and Paul Howe are friends is that Paul Howe self-published this book and the reason I'm blaming him for that is because there's some typos and some repeat paragraphs and some things that just didn't get edited right because he self-published. Now, hey, I get it. If I ever am fortunate enough or smart enough or have enough knowledge to write a book, I'll probably self-publish so there's that. But I just think it's funny that because they didn't go through an official publisher, of course, there are a couple of issues and typos but that's not the biggest deal in the world. Still lots of valuable knowledge, still would recommend it to you if you're interested in something like that. If you're just getting started in your gun journey or you just want to read books to shoot better, I don't think I would point you to this book. I don't think this would be necessarily the best starting place for you. However, given that it's about teaching and again it's about pushing you up that ladder to the next level. If that's something you're interested in or if you've been learning guns for a while or you've been to several introductory level courses and you've learned to run your gun and you know what to do there, then maybe this would be something that would be interesting for you and you'd enjoy it. He writes very simply, very straightforwardly. At the end of all of his chapters, he does these things where he does like student key points and instructor key points. I think those are super helpful. So again, big fan of Paul Howe, big fan of the CSAT way. I had to choose one to read first. I'd still tell you to choose leadership and training for the fight first. And then if you really like that and you want more, come back and read the CSAT way. But other than that, thank you Paul Howe for writing this book. Really appreciate it and hope that the rest of you would pick it up if that fits in something that you think you'd be interested in and hope you enjoy it as well. Until then, do brave deeds and endure.