Learn the Proper Arm & Hand Positioning for Pistol Shooting

Video Transcript

"Okay we have done foot position, now I'm going to talk a bit of arm positioning when you are shooting. A lot of people get their misconception when you shoot, you have to have to have this rigged arm and you can move and you have to be able to hold a thousand pound weight on the arm without it dropping. Not necessarily so a lot of people see in the movies where they shoot you know a three-fifty-seven or a four caliber handgun it goes the arm goes flying. Yes the bigger the weapon the larger the recall yes but it is nothing, it is over exaggerating in the movies is what I'm trying to say. But you do want a good arm position okay and you do want a good hand position. When you are firing you know in your stance to fire when you draw your weapon and punch it out. Okay your arm comes out such as so, slightly bent you don't want to be straight armed like that. Okay you want your arm slightly bent so there is some flexibility and from this point here if I need to disengage I can come to what is consider a low ready. Okay and just pop it back up. A lot of people get into you know it is a lot from television where they believe that your arm has to be fully extended in order for your round to reach the target that is not necessarily at all. This weapon I can hold my weapon right here and still hit a target down range versus sticking it out here. I'm more comfortable with it here because if I'm in a situation no one can grab the end of my fire arm, I'm not worry about it getting knocked out of my hand. Plus the longer you stiff it out and hold it out the more fatigue you are going to feel which is probably going to effect your shoot. So arm positioning and hand positioning hands again when you are firing you want to wrap this hand around the other one. Okay you want to marry those thumbs is what they call it meet the thumbs and marry them. Right on the side of the weapon okay. So it looks like this from this side finger always on the side of the frame until I'm ready to fire and with this hand three fingers naturally wrapped around the grip, thumb fall naturally into place. All I'm doing is wrapping these fingers around those three and marrying those thumbs together where my thumbs meet. Okay and that would be my stance but again I'm not out here like this, I got a slight bent to retract back and forth if I need to. So that would be arm and hand positioning. "