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Yeah, well, let's talk about grip for a minute, okay? All right. Well, Joel, explain how to grip. I don't, I don't know. This isn't going to sound too crazy for most people. They pretty much agree on the hand placement. The firing hand goes up high on the gun, maybe hit the bottom of the trigger guard. Support hand comes in, they close, they hit together, something like this. That's not, yeah, like not like what Ben's doing. No, it's no, no. This isn't very controversial, right? Most people would agree on this.
Most, well, hold on. There, there'll be a lot of discussion like, "Hey, this or this, maybe this." Some dudes like the idea of hooking their finger under the trigger guard with there. You've seen this, Joel? You, I'm talking, whatever. Any of those, don't even care. Wow. Okay.
The more interesting part, I think, is the pressures you use. So, the way I like to think about it is with my firing hand, all I do is just hold on to the gun. And with my support hand, I'm actually going to control recoil. The reason for using those two different pressures is if you, if you try to like, really Hulk Smash on the gun with your firing hand, it's going to be really tough to press the trigger without having the rest of your firing hand move. So then, when you want to really fire quickly, you'll end up pushing into the gun and stopping it from recoil. Well, trying to stop it from recoiling. You know, recoil is going to happen. Attempting to, yes, it's, it's going to happen either way.
And that's, I mean, what we want is like a very simple way of conceptualizing this, like Joel's saying, where I hold the gun with my, my firing hand just hard enough so the gun doesn't move around inside of my hand. And I connect my support hand to the gun. Again, we shouldn't see the, the trigger guard bouncing off your hand like this under recoil. That both hands should be connected to the pistol, and they're going to move as a unit. Now, the only other muscle you really need here is some forearm tension, just to make sure the pistol is not flipping around. You see a lot of new shooters, chicks, whatever, and the pistol flips around like that's not what we want. We want firm connection to the pistol, some forearm tension, so it's just going to move as a unit.
Now, as we're standing here discussing this, we're, we're talking about how little muscle to use, how little. And this is like a, this is a core concept for us. We want the, the pistol to be consistent, predictable, repeatable. Everything we're doing, that's what we want it to look like. It's not about using up all the muscle to mitigate the recoil of the pistol because that's not really going to happen. I think I could demo this. We shoot some live blammo. We should. All right.
So, I'm going to do this two different ways. All right. I'm going to do what I'm talking about where I just draw the pistol, hold little pressure here, connect the support hand, crush. And then I'm going to go ahead and do some rapid fire pairs on the target here. Hey. Okay. Now, what you should pay attention to here is how little tension was in my body when I was doing that. I'm shooting the pistol fast, accurate enough, we're holding the A-zone, all that, but I'm staying relaxed. Like everything from my elbow, my shoulders, my, my back is relaxed, and I'm not tense. This is going to make everything else I have to do with shooting, like moving around, tracking a moving target, acquiring a target, transitioning onto it, even reloading the pistol. Like, if I'm not all tense in my, my body, it makes reloading easier. Makes everything easier. Everything gets easier and better is I keep my body as relaxed as possible.
All right. Most people, just the way they conceptualize what they're trying to do here is they want to, you know, mitigate the pistol from rising in recoil. So they're going to use a bunch of muscle. To demonstrate that, I'm going to stiffen up everything. All right, my legs, my core, stiffen that up. I'll even roll my elbows out and put some pressure in on the pistol to try to, again, to try to mitigate the rise as much as possible. Now, watch how tense I am, and watch how much the pistol rises in recoil. Now, the haircut doesn't help, but he looked a lot more goofy that way. Clearly. Yeah. Uh, it looked like you took a lot more effort. Watching carefully, watching the gun from the side, it was about, I mean, maybe a little bit less recoil, but you saw he put a lot more effort into the gun. He's all like locked out. Can't, I mean, he's not in a position where he can move anywhere fast or aggressively. He's basically stuck in this stance just with his entire being trying to stop the gun from recoiling. Yeah.
And, and I wasn't even successful. It's like, it didn't really affect how the gun was moving. It's still going to recoil. It's still got to cycle. It's still got to kick the brass out and, and put a new one in the chamber. So it's still going to do its thing, no matter how tense I am. So, like I said, it makes everything else you have to do easier. And in a sense, one way of conceptualizing this is I'm going to use as little muscle as possible, as long as my grip and everything, uh, holds together. Now, I'll do one last demo with my grip, uh, coming apart. Uh, so if we get a look at it, uh, from the side, you'll see some trigger guard separation here. Let's give this a go. There we go. You can see there my hands did not stay connected to the pistol. So it was just moving around inside of my hand. Now, I used up the whole A-zone for that example. We're at pretty close range here. As I'd back up, of course, the results would get a lot worse. And that I didn't have a feeling of predictability or consistency with the way the gun was moving, 'cause my support hand didn't stay connected. So in that case, it's like, hey, you got to clamp down with your support hand. This is going to sound really crazy, which is why I like it. Yes. You just hold the gun with your hands. No other part of hands and forearms. Hands and forearms. No other part of your chest, back, your feet, or like trying to like use your body weight to extra lean into it. It's just a handgun. It's not going to recoil that much unless you're shooting, you know, something crazy like some, you know, 50 Action Express or something, maybe. But otherwise, the stuff we're using, like it doesn't matter. You just hold on to it through your hands. You look where you want to go, and the bullets will just track there.