Roger Phillips is our Nevada based Staff Instructor and Point Shooting Specialist. His home courses are based right outside of Las Vegas, Nevada, in the small town of Boulder City, known as the home of the Hoover Dam. Roger also travels across the United States teaching his Specialty Courses and Suarez International Tier One courses.

Roger is a lifelong hunter, competitor, shooter and training enthusiast. Along with this extensive training resume, he brings thirteen years of “street” experience due to living in some of the toughest areas of all of Southern California. It is this street experience that allows him to qualify and excel in a field predominantly reserved for LEO’s and Soldiers. Roger brings to the table a unique perspective of the typical civilian dealing with, working, fighting, and winning inside of the thug environment. It is this experience and perspective that qualifies him to speak with authority on the ways of the street, the realities of the fight, and the common sense and skills sets necessary to allow his students to prevail on the streets.

Roger’s specialty is that of point shooting. He is often quoted “It is not about point shooting, it is about what point shooting makes possible.” He is a firm believer that “Situations dictate strategy, strategies dictate tactics, and tactics dictate techniques……techniques should not dictate anything.” It is his opinion that point shooting is just one of many necessary skill sets that will allow you to be as deadly as you can possibly be. It is this open minded, inclusive, and conceptual approach that allows him to take his point shooting specialty and directly apply them to his other specialties such a Low Light Gunfighting, Force on Force, and CQB Tactics in order to make the student as deadly as they can possibly be.

Since 1999, Roger has extensive training inside of the world of “The Modern Techniques” but knew that there was much more to “fighting” than what he was being taught inside of those courses. He received numerous job offers to teach those methods, but felt that it was wrong to teach something that he did not believe in. In 2001 he began a quest to find a philosophy that made “street” sense to him. In this quest one person continually stood out as being a man that was on the right path and that man was Gabe Suarez. Roger began training with Gabe in 2002 and became a SI instructor in 2006. Roger is now a Tier One Instructor qualified to teach the vast majority of the courses offered by Suarez International.

Roger is the author of the book “Point Shooting Progressions". He is a frequent contributor to the Suarez International Blog and Warrior Talk Forums. He has also produced two DVDs about point shooting, “Introduction to Point Shooting” and “Point Shooting Progressions”. Roger has also written the curriculum for five Suarez International courses and has been featured is several Gun Magazine publications.