I know that the primary focus of these forums is on the WPS, but training is a life long process, so I figured it would be a nice idea to talk about what other professional firearms training you have attended and what you thought of it.

For pistol I have shot with:

Greg Elifritz - snub nosed revolver. It was a good course with plenty of "rolling thunder" style drills forcing you to make your reload before the line finished firing and you had to shoot again. I do wish that we have covered different reloading methods and spent more time playing with them to select the method that works best for each student.

Ben DeWalt - combat/defensive handgun. Ben covers a lot of drills and expects you to reload whenever you are dry in order to keep up. I was shooting a glock 39 so I reloaded a lot. Downside, he can be a bit crass (if that bothers you) and I had hoped for a little more focused coaching on my grip. At the time I felt like a dog chasing my gun down the street when shooting quickly, rather than someone driving the car.

Super Dave Harrington - defensive handgun. Lots of dry fire in the first half of the class, which was nice. Lectures more than the other instructors that I have shot with, which seemed to lose some people (like my wife) but overall still worth the time and money.

Rifle:
Kurt Drewell (Long rifles Inc) - Precision rifle 1. A decent primer for long range shooting, at the time the class went from 100-400 yards which looking back is quaint, but it was an enjoyable 2 day class and covered the basics of long range shooting from prone and worked in some UKD targets.

I would like to take a few more precision rifle courses (maybe with Frank Galli) that covered movers and in more dynamic wind environments. I have scored first round hits out to 1250 shooting PRS but that is still mostly a static sport.

For my handgun, eventually I would like to make it to Georgia with my wife to do WPS pistol 1 and 2. I don't feel like I'm chasing the gun as much as I used to, but I would like to shave more time off of my IDPA scores and I know my draw/first round time could always be improved. And I just enjoy taking classes with my wife. As a life long goal I would love to make it out to thunder ranch, as my grandfather and shooting mentor always wanted to and it would be nice to live out his dream. Gunsite would be another bucket list item.

I've trained with Larry Vickers for an AR15 class, where he called me a "window licker" for one bone-headed error or another, I cannot remember.

I've also trained for a week in NC with Appleseed and a dozen or so classes with REVERE'S RIDERS in Indiana, an offshoot of the Appleseed group.

I hope to hook up and take classes with MTAC in Muncie, IN and Modern Samaurai. And whatever courses I can with WPS too, of course.

I went through Paul Howe's Tac Rifle/Pistol Instructor Course in 2015. It was a great experience.

For the last five years or so, I've taken training with John "Shrek" McPhee (SOB Tactical). His courses are absolutely amazing.

Well, not to throw a spanner into the works but studies have shown that "cramming" a 2-3 day course into your brain will result in most people not being able to reproduce the learned content within a month (slightly varies, but is mostly dependent on how much people train the stuff afterward).
You basically remember the "good time" you had but not the actual skill...
Testing LE officers that graduated their "academy" revealed they could not repeat simple techniques they learned at the academy after 3 months on active duty...

Here's a "radical" idea: How about doing training with dry-fire BEFORE going to any live fire training?
My advice: Buy the book "Real World Gunfight training" and sign up for the "Praxis" course (Both by Mike "Ox" Ochsner).
Maybe also "Drawstoke Mastery" to round it up :-)
Doing that will increase your skill-level immensely without any ammo costs and can be done at home at your own pace.

And afterwards, if you visit a live fire training, you'll be able to take away so much more from it, because you're already "primed".

Chris Cerino - No nonsense kind of guy. Really helped me shoot a handgun well. The improvement I had in just three days was unreal. I had no real experience shooting a handgun before I went there.

Dave Spaulding - Another no nonsense kind of guy. Very good trainer. Although he is retired he is teaching one class this summer and I am going back.

Greg Ellifritz - Great trainer. Ellfirtiz knows his stuff!

TDI (Tactical Defense Institute) in West Union, OH. I have taken a dozen courses there. Fantastic training and really good guys.

EAST Group - Fredericktown, OH - not bad. not great though.

Castle Group - Zanesville, OH - decent training

@ the idea that some things are soon forgotten:

1: I will never forget having a bright weapon light scrambling my brain when assaulted in WPS' ONE MAN ROOM CLEARING.

2: I will never forget the shock of having the Battle Gnome do what he did to us in Pistol 2 and how to respond.

3: I will never forget Mr. Lovell pointing a rubber blue gun at us and how much it freaked me out at Rifle 2. And how his (and Paul's) faked aggression showed me how vulnerable we all are to random violence at large. Valuable lessons.

Things about these classes stick with us, even if we don't remember the exact drills. Yeah, I need to review and re-inforce their teachings. But some of it stays with us, forever.