{"id":28083,"date":"2014-02-10T18:51:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T00:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=28083"},"modified":"2014-02-10T18:52:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T00:52:54","slug":"blade-tech-extends-support-for-practical-edge-shooting-youth-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/blade-tech-extends-support-for-practical-edge-shooting-youth-program\/28083\/","title":{"rendered":"Blade-Tech extends support for Practical Edge Shooting Youth Program"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Member of the Practical Edge Junior Team. Photo Credit: practicaledgeshooting.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Blade-Tech Industries, the leading manufacturer of custom production thermoplastic and injection molded concealment and competition holsters is proud to announce they are extending their partnership with Practical Edge Shooting<\/a>.\u00a0 Blade Tech Industries has supported the Practical Edge Junior Team<\/a> since its inception, and has again signed on as a sponsor for this upcoming 2014 season. Team members utilize Blade Tech holsters, magazine pouches, and belts to facilitate the competitions they participate in.<\/p>\n

David Blosser, founder of Practical Edge, stated, \u201cThe support provided by Blade Tech Industries allows all of our junior competitors to be equipped with the very best gear available from the onset of their competitive experiences.\u00a0 The Blade Tech gear used by our Team athletes has proven itself to be competition fast, durable, and most importantly safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Practical Edge Shooting is a firearms and tactical training company offering effective solutions to their public and law enforcement clients.\u00a0 The partnership with Blade Tech Industries reinforces Blade Tech\u2019s commitment to their motto, \u201cCarry Confident\u201d.<\/p>\n

Practical Edge is based out of Eastern Washington and recognized a need for organized youth shooting in the action pistol sports in their local area. With tremendous industry support the Practical Edge Junior Team was created.\u00a0 The Practical Edge Junior Shooting Team is a professionally coached team of junior athletes ranging in age from 10 \u2013 17.<\/p>\n

Mark Bradley, Team Coach, stated “It is our intent and goal to teach our athletes safety first, fundamentals and skill development, with a heavy influence in the development of personal responsibility, accountability, and setting of and achieving goals.\u00a0 We are not results driven, but we believe that the results will take care of themselves when the right attitude and focus is brought to the front.” Dee Maynard, Team Coordinator said.\u00a0 \u201cMore importantly, we are molding the next generation of goal-oriented competitive shooters.\u00a0 The sport of practical pistol is a fantastic platform to teach and learn many of life’s lessons. Our athletes have made tremendous progress in their development and it will be very interesting watching them mature into great shooters and good stewards in their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\"Blade-TechLogo\"<\/a>Blade-Tech is proud to be able to sponsor youth programs like Practical Edge Shooting, to help junior shooters start off with quality gear that is proven safe and they can trust.\u201d said Tom Crawford, Blade-Tech\u2019s Chief Operating Office.<\/p>\n

As the shooting sports grows, Blade-Tech expects to be able to continue its support and do all it can grow to competitive shooting.<\/p>\n

If you would like to know more about Blade-Tech\u2019s quality gear for competitive shooters and or our support of the shooting sports, please visit our website at: http:\/\/blade-tech.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blade Tech Industries has supported the Practical Edge Junior Team since its inception, and has again signed on as a sponsor for this upcoming 2014 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":28085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[784,3309],"class_list":["post-28083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-from-the-industry","tag-blade-tech-industries","tag-practical-edge-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}