In February 2026, Tracy Thronburg, Ken Carden and I all attended a 3 day FlexCCarry(tm) instructor course taught by Vicki Farnam and her team of assistant instructors.
The class was hosted by Crescent City CCW, held at the Deadwood Marshals cowboy action range in Sorrento, LA. (I will be back there in July teaching my Force on Force instructor and Tactical Scenarios courses.)
The focus of this course was to teach us how to instruct others in the use of non-belt-holster carry methods. Vicki has published an excellent book on the topic and as a free sampler book available also.
Visit her site FlexCCarry(tm) Solutions for more information or to order the book. https://www.flexccarrysolutions.com/
My thoughts on the value of this class and making it easier for people carrying in bags, packs, and purses to attend regular defensive handgun courses…
Vicki brought more than 40 different bags for us to try, and part of the course involved changing bags/packs/purses frequently, so we got familiar with as many different products as possible.
Here are some videos of me working from different bags.
The VERTX SOCP bag turned to be my favorite, and after class I purchased two of those bags: one each for Penny and I. I also purchased multiple Crossbreed modular holsters to upgrade some of the other bags and packs I had in my loaner library.
The class included many different live fire drills: examples of how FlexCCarry could be integrated into standard defensive pistol drills, including shooting from cover, shooting on the move, doing reloads and clearing malfunctions. This video shows some of those drills. They were all to be shot at “demoing for student” speed, not “showing off for social media” speed.
Tracy and I will be teaching a classroom Off Body Carry specialty class May 9 (the Saturday before Mother’s Day) paired with a 3 hour Defensive Pistol Small Gun live fire course that focuses specifically on carrying and shooting subcompact semiautos and snub revolvers – perfect for summer carry and off body carry. The Off Body Carry course will be 2 hours of learning about and trying a variety of our loaner bags, packs and purses, working with inert pistols. The Small Gun course will be live fire skills. Students can bring their own guns or use our loaners (loaner guns w/ ammo are $30, contact me in advance to arrange this.) We recommend students interested in off body carry skills take BOTH courses. This is why we are offering them back to back on the same day. Those not interested in the off body material are welcome to attend just the 12-3 Small Gun live fire course.