Well guys most of you may know I am in the law enforcement academy, should be graduating mid november assuming all goes well, we are in week 9 of the training, finished firearms qual last week and we basically have been doing search and investigative skills and we still have driving and hand to hand left to do as well as Asp training and basic first aid / 1st responder training and the ever popular police driving and maintenance.
Today we did our 8 hour course for Taser certification which included a 4 hour lecture and poower point, 2 hours of video and 2 hours of firing the taser, reloading, drive stunning and finally they allowed anyone in class that wanted to be tased or "take the ride" as they say to do so. We have 19 people in my class, 4 females the rest are males. Myself and 6 other guys volunteered and 1 female, former coworker of mine whose 33 and still hot lol volunteered. Three others did too but then they backed out after watching the first few tasings, so total we had 9 of us do it out of the 19, I was the 4th person to have it done.
I am sure I'll end up tased again depending on what department I get hired on with but I decided to do it for several reasons, one I was curious about it since we saw all the videos and did the firing and read the science I wanted to feel it first hand, secondly I wanted to do it since half the class pussed out, and third I figure itll make the second one that much easier since the anxiety of not knowing is gone.
To answer the obvious question, YES it did in fact hurt pretty bad, however it ends when the device is stopped or finishes its automated cycle. Stuff like oc, pepper spray and Asp batons can be felt hours even days later, and they are a pain when it comes to decontamination, they can also cause problems with people with asthma. That's a big reason tasers are so nice, they basically cannot seriously injure you, they have been tested on people with heart trouble, pacemakers, etc etc. Very good life saving tool in the sense that you can use it to stop someone who normally would have been shot or maybe at least injured through use of impact weapons or sparys.
It's hard to describe the feeling of it, it is odd the first second you can't move you just tighten up and sometimes flail around or punch, kick spasm, roll around etc, then the pain kicks in, its not a pain I've expirienced before, I can't compare it to anything but suffice it to say it'll make even the biggest person grunt groan, cuss and some cases scream (our 6'3 280 lbs guy screamed like a lil girl, the smaller people cussed and grunted but nothing too dramatic). When it's over the probes can hurt some coming out, there are marks that look similar to mosquito bites or something similar. I'm glad I did it, just kinda unique and makes you that much more confident in the tool you're going to be using on people.
So now that I got this class knocked out I got my certification for taser equipment and also certified for the Taser brand model M26 and the newer more badass X26, the x26 is what was used on us today, it has a higher pulse rate and is a bit "hotter" as they say. I'll post some pics below, I'm sure you've seen them before, maybe even been zapped
there are videos that were taken today so when I get copies I'll see if I can post them up, theres a good one of misty being punched while she was tased by one of the classmates who just happened to spasm a couple nice right hooks LOL.
Model X-26 Advanced Taser (newer model)
Modem M-26 Taser (Older less efficient but still does the job)
Today we did our 8 hour course for Taser certification which included a 4 hour lecture and poower point, 2 hours of video and 2 hours of firing the taser, reloading, drive stunning and finally they allowed anyone in class that wanted to be tased or "take the ride" as they say to do so. We have 19 people in my class, 4 females the rest are males. Myself and 6 other guys volunteered and 1 female, former coworker of mine whose 33 and still hot lol volunteered. Three others did too but then they backed out after watching the first few tasings, so total we had 9 of us do it out of the 19, I was the 4th person to have it done.
I am sure I'll end up tased again depending on what department I get hired on with but I decided to do it for several reasons, one I was curious about it since we saw all the videos and did the firing and read the science I wanted to feel it first hand, secondly I wanted to do it since half the class pussed out, and third I figure itll make the second one that much easier since the anxiety of not knowing is gone.
To answer the obvious question, YES it did in fact hurt pretty bad, however it ends when the device is stopped or finishes its automated cycle. Stuff like oc, pepper spray and Asp batons can be felt hours even days later, and they are a pain when it comes to decontamination, they can also cause problems with people with asthma. That's a big reason tasers are so nice, they basically cannot seriously injure you, they have been tested on people with heart trouble, pacemakers, etc etc. Very good life saving tool in the sense that you can use it to stop someone who normally would have been shot or maybe at least injured through use of impact weapons or sparys.
It's hard to describe the feeling of it, it is odd the first second you can't move you just tighten up and sometimes flail around or punch, kick spasm, roll around etc, then the pain kicks in, its not a pain I've expirienced before, I can't compare it to anything but suffice it to say it'll make even the biggest person grunt groan, cuss and some cases scream (our 6'3 280 lbs guy screamed like a lil girl, the smaller people cussed and grunted but nothing too dramatic). When it's over the probes can hurt some coming out, there are marks that look similar to mosquito bites or something similar. I'm glad I did it, just kinda unique and makes you that much more confident in the tool you're going to be using on people.
So now that I got this class knocked out I got my certification for taser equipment and also certified for the Taser brand model M26 and the newer more badass X26, the x26 is what was used on us today, it has a higher pulse rate and is a bit "hotter" as they say. I'll post some pics below, I'm sure you've seen them before, maybe even been zapped
there are videos that were taken today so when I get copies I'll see if I can post them up, theres a good one of misty being punched while she was tased by one of the classmates who just happened to spasm a couple nice right hooks LOL. Model X-26 Advanced Taser (newer model)
Modem M-26 Taser (Older less efficient but still does the job)
