Welcome back to another After Dark episode! In this one, I sat down with Matt Pranka. After retiring from a high level military unit, Pranka started XRAY ALPHA & challenged the status quo on social media with posts & questions on tactics, skills & all things training. In this episode, we talk about XRAY ALPHA, firearms instruction, his coaching philosophy & the shooting world at large. Love him or hate him, agree or don't agree, I think there's value in challenging the status quo and he's doing just that. This conversation should give everyone insight into where he's coming from. Personally, I think the industry needs more guys like Matt - to keep things in check or at least a little uncomfortable.

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Timestamps:
00:00 XRAY ALPHA
01:05 How Did The Company Start
04:39 Law Enforcement & Military Training
06:59 Client Demographic
09:59 Matt's Philosophy On Training
15:28 Matt's Teaching Perspective
19:07 The Shooting World
22:04 Performing At A High Level
29:30 Hard Skills
37:27 How Does Matt Teach
41:26 Matt Talks About Social Media
47:03 Teaching Concepts & Information
55:59 Pissing Everyone Off
1:03:52 The Firearms Community
1:10:54 Negative Impact Of Social Media
1:16:19 Inside Dogs & Outside Dogs
1:18:56 The Military & Veteran Life
1:26:29 People Get Salty
1:30:09 The Process Of Improvement
1:34:38 Wrap it!

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#53 After Dark - Developing The Hard Skills with Matt Pranka of XRAY ALPHA