{"id":9593,"date":"2011-05-14T13:45:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=9593"},"modified":"2013-08-10T12:03:34","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T17:03:34","slug":"congrats-to-mike-seeklander-and-to-fans-of-the-best-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/congrats-to-mike-seeklander-and-to-fans-of-the-best-defense\/9593\/","title":{"rendered":"Congrats to Mike Seeklander AND to fans of The Best Defense!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mike Seeklander is a World Class Instructor with an extensive and diverse shooting background.<\/p><\/div>\n

Michael Bane made the official announcement a few days ago that Mike Seeklander will be stepping into the Firearms Instructor\/Host role in the Best Defense Series <\/em>starting in January 2012, as I step aside to create space for this new perspective as well as create more time for the many of other projects that I am involved in (including some exciting new ones!).<\/em> Honestly, I cannot think of a better person to step into the role.<\/p>\n

Ironically, I first worked with Mike Seeklander<\/a> several years ago when he was a guest in the early days of The Best Defense<\/em>! When we first started the show, as usually happens, it was still a work in progress and the format wasn\u2019t really developed. In fact, that type of development is always a constant process. At that time, we were considering following the traditional \u201cgun tv\u201d format of having guest instructors on each episode. We quickly decided that the chopped and stop\/start type of presentation that a different perspective every week brings isn\u2019t conducive to presenting a cohesive body of work. It was certainly no reflection on Mike (or Phil Strader, who was also a guest that season) that we chose to go with a more consistent \u201cone voice\u201d approach to presenting the firearms training info on The Best Defense<\/em>. Well, now that voice is changing.<\/p>\n

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Mike taping for Personal Defense Network in 2010.<\/p><\/div>\n

If you hadn\u2019t heard yet, I announced earlier in the week that I was going to be saying \u201cGoodbye & Good Luck!\u201d<\/a> to The Best Defense<\/em> series at the end of the year. Now that the new \u201cTBD Gun Guy\u201d is announced, I wanted to let those of you who are familiar with me, but not with Mr. Seeklander, rest assured that I think the show is in great hands!<\/p>\n

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In fact, since meeting while taping in 2008, Mike and I have spent a fair amount of time together and worked together often.<\/p>\n

Last year, Mike attended a Combat Focus\u00ae Shooting Course that he also hosted at US Shooting Academy in Tulsa, joined me as a guest instructor in the Personal Firearms Defense DVD Series and we really got to compare notes and understand a bit more about each other\u2019s approach to training. Mike also joined me as a guest on the second season of S.W.A.T. Magazine TV<\/a><\/em> and did a great job. More recently, I\u2019ve brought Mike in as a regular contributor to The Personal Defense Network<\/a>, where his articles are helping us to maintain our quickly established position as the highest quality source for diverse personal defense & safety information on the Internet.<\/p>\n

Mike and I got together a couple of days ago and taped a quick video clip announcing the change, which you can see HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As I said in my \u201cgoodbye\u201d letter linked above, I am extraordinarily proud of my work on The Best Defense<\/em> and The Best Defense: Survival<\/em>. It is only natural that I would want a professional to step into my role their and he inherits the legacy. It is a privilege to be able to say that the pro stepping in as I step out is a good friend. Thanks to Mike for agreeing to take over the reigns at a project that has been, and will remain, very important to me!<\/p>\n

So, I hope that everyone enjoys the look that they are going to get at the guns I would pick for a worst case scenario survival situation on the new season of TBD: Survival<\/em> that starts in July. I am definitely looking forward to the feedback. I am at least as anxiously looking forward to sitting back and watching The Best Defense<\/em> in January 2012\u2026 you should be too!<\/p>\n

-Rob Pincus<\/p>\n

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Michael Bane made the official announcement a few days ago that Mike Seeklander will be stepping into the Firearms Instructor\/Host role in the Best Defense Series starting in January 2012, as I step aside to create space for this new perspective as well as create more time for the many of other projects that I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rob-pincus","category-best-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9593","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}