Learn the Different Pistol Shooting Stances

Video Transcript

"Depending upon what circumstances -- obviously, if you have someone returning fire, you probably won't be going that slow and you just have to do whatever you have to do to get suppression fire down there. But for training purposes, to get comfortable with being able to shoot on the move, what you don't want to do is go, step, step, stop, bang. Step, step, stop, bang. That's what you don't want to do. The whole purpose is to fire while advancing. You've got to be constantly moving. So when you're moving, it's heel, toe, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, I'm never once coming to a complete stop, I'm still advancing on my target all the while engaging the target. Will you be 100% accurate every single time while advancing? Probably not. But if you train, and you practice, you'll see that the gate slows down. You have to control your gate, your breathing, and your sway. I mean the gate meaning, when you walk, it's almost like you're walking on feathers. You're walking on sand, trying not to leave a footprint. It's very subtle. Heel, toe, heel, toe. There's not a whole lot of side to side. You want to make sure that your feet are always facing towards your target. Because if not -- if you happen to go like this -- this is what's going to happen. You're going to sway from side to side -- sway from side to side. And your shots are going to go from side to side. And everything in the middle that you want to hit will be clean as a whistle. So you want to walk the tightrope, discipline, force your feet to stay pointed at the target, punch it out, heel, toe, heel, toe, nice and slow, heel, toe. And you'll notice, your body's not fluctuating up and down as much as it would if you were regularly walking. That is advancing on a target forward."