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Here is Training Article #24…<\/strong><\/p>\n This series of articles gives you a glimpse at the handgun techniques we teach at Front Sight.\u00a0Unfortunately, these articles cannot impart any actual skills.\u00a0The life-saving skills of gun-handling, marksmanship, and tactics can only be gained from attending a course at Front Sight.<\/p>\n In this chapter, I am going to cover a method of holding your weapon and a body position which will help you deliver good, fight-stopping hits downrange.\u00a0We call this \u201cGrip and Stance.\u201d\u00a0The goal of proper grip and stance is to control recoil and muzzle flip when the weapon fires.\u00a0Recoil is the rearward push of the weapon, and muzzle flip is the upward rotation of the muzzle.\u00a0Of course, these occur simultaneously each time you fire the weapon.<\/p>\n A proper grip begins with the placement of your firing hand as high as possible on the frame.\u00a0If you let your hand slide down on the frame, you will have less control of muzzle flip.\u00a0The result of proper hand placement will be a bulge of flesh behind the tang, or grip safety, of the weapon.\u00a0The trigger finger is straight alongside the frame.\u00a0The remaining three fingers of the firing hand are simply wrapped around the front of the frame.\u00a0The thumb is high and relaxed.\u00a0For 1911 shooters, the thumb is on top of the thumb safety.\u00a0The weapon should extend in a straight line from your forearm.\u00a0If there is a significant angle between your forearm and the weapon, you will have great difficulty controlling recoil and muzzle flip.\u00a0That takes care of the firing hand.<\/p>\n The easiest way to describe placement of the support hand is \u201cfingers on fingers, thumb on thumb.\u201d\u00a0The support hand fingers simply overlap the firing hand fingers underneath the trigger guard.\u00a0The support hand index finger should hit the bottom of the trigger guard at about the second knuckle.\u00a0The support hand thumb stacks comfortably on top of the firing hand thumb.\u00a0The backs of the hands will touch just slightly.\u00a0That is a proper two-handed grip.<\/p>\n There are two common mistakes you need to avoid in your grip.\u00a0First, if you let your support hand index finger drift up onto the front of the trigger guard, it will actually be more difficult to control muzzle flip.\u00a0Second, if you let your thumbs curl down into a \u201ccrushing grip,\u201d you may cause two problems.\u00a0One, the thumbs will likely hit one of the controls of the weapon at just the wrong time.\u00a0Two, by crushing your thumbs down, you may degrade your trigger control.\u00a0When your entire hand is flexed, it is very difficult to move the trigger finger with any degree of dexterity.<\/p>\n Now let’s talk about stance.\u00a0There are several shooting stances commonly used in defensive handgun training.\u00a0The one we favor is the Weaver stance because it allows excellent control of recoil and muzzle flip, it is easy to learn, and it transitions well to other weapons like shotguns and rifles.<\/p>\n The Weaver stance is a bladed, aggressive stance.\u00a0Your feet should be shoulder width apart and pointed at about 30\u00ba to your firing side.\u00a0Your hips and shoulders are also at 30\u00ba.\u00a0In other words, there should be no twisting of the spine.\u00a0The only things facing your adversary are your head and obviously your weapon.\u00a0Your body and head stay relatively erect.\u00a0Your knees should be very slightly bent.\u00a0You should also have a slight amount of forward lean; just enough to get your weight onto the balls of your feet.<\/p>\n Now, if I extend my arms toward the adversary, clearly my support hand extends much further than my firing hand.\u00a0This is the result of being in a bladed stance.\u00a0To obtain the two-handed grip I just described, you simply bend your support side elbow down toward the ground and bring the hands together.\u00a0Don’t point the support side elbow out to the side, but rather, directly down to the ground.\u00a0Keep the firing side arm relatively straight.\u00a0This is the Weaver stance.<\/p>\n One thing you cannot see in the Weaver stance is the \u201cisometric tension\u201d in the arms.\u00a0This isometric tension is created by pushing the weapon toward the adversary with the firing arm, while simultaneously pulling rearward toward your body with your support arm.\u00a0This isometric tension essentially locks the frame of the weapon in a vice.\u00a0The isometric tension you create with a proper Weaver stance helps control recoil and muzzle flip.<\/p>\n In the next chapter of the Handgun Training Series, we will explore the Ready position.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n If you want the best training and the greatest value in the firearms industry… Take advantage of our 5 Day Defensive Handgun Course, 30 State Concealed Weapon Permit and our entire set of 7 training manuals (over $2700 in total value) for only $200.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n That’s right! 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