Grip Is Why You're Missing

[Music] so I shouldn't be able to move your support thumb you should be digging in towards about the 4 o'clock position with regards to accuracy in marksmanship what's the first thing we tell guys when we see them missing what are they messing up with the graphs of fundamentals trigger press trigger press so we always say H clean trigger press and then if they're still missing after that we'll probably say all it's your anticipation or maybe we'll tell them that they're having a sloppy sight picture so if your trigger press anticipation they're differently gun or sloppy sight picture guys can still be doing all those three things right and still be missing well we tend to notice is that grip is actually why a lot of guys are missing with regards to marksmanship there's a lot of different reasons behind that one of the big reasons is that we're never actually diagnosed grip because how many around so we typically shoot at cardboard when we shoot it two rounds two and we're good how many rounds do we shoot at steel typically like one round when we move on so we don't ever actually have the time to diagnose what the actual symptoms are with our issues with accuracy so you know I'm not the first person to say that grip is going to help you improve with your marksmanship will help you improve with your accuracy I do think that there's a bit more that we could be saying about it to give guys a better foundation from which they can move forward so about 10 years ago became pretty in vogue to kind of scoff at the old-school 6040 mentality and I was one of those guys that like laughed at it you guys are familiar with that with you know you know 60% of your support hand 40% of your right hand and we'd be like well how much is you know what 62% feels like and I was definitely the guy on your side right now go like yeah that's right I don't know what 62% feels like that's stupid so we started the discussion there and I think where we kind of got led astray is we started to look at guidelines as a strict adherence to how we actually should be gripping the gun versus looking at I think what is a little bit more effective which is a principles-based approach because you know I'm shooting 320 who else is shooting 320 you're shooting through 20 who shootin Glocks okay did Glock call you and say how big is your hand where should we be putting the stippling on the side of the frame of the pistol no they didn't okay so we noticed that everyone's shooting different platforms even if you are shooting the same platform you don't have the same size hand you don't have the same life experiences growing up you have different interpretations of what athleticism means okay so if instead of taking a strict procedures based approach which tends to somewhat remedy to the issues we take a principles-based approach we'll be able to square guys away so what I say or what I mean by a procedures based approach is you know we got away from the whole 6040 mentality we started to look at how we apply pressure onto the side of the gun and one of the big things that guys are told now is to get as high up onto the frame of the pistol and far forward as they can you guys familiar with this especially if your Glock shooters that is a good guideline but from there we need to modify it specifically to the performance of the athlete so we get high onto the frame and we get forward well this becomes problematic because what happens with my support elbow when I get too high too far forward what do you see I start to over torque on my elbow so can I shoot a gun like this yeah if I had to I could I could shoot at the 7-yard line I could shoot at the 50-yard line like this but is this a very effective way to shoot with regards to form if we are looking at performance at the top tiers we need to be perfect with everything we do with our form and then our positioning with our body so yes I can shoot a gun like this not very effective all right if we're looking at performing at a very high level so get high get far forward those are guidelines what I think we should be doing instead is be looking at contact and pressure so those two principles contact and pressure where on my support hand do I make the firmest contact typically with my support thumb towards the inside of the digit and then on the meaty portion of my palm in here now if I get too high up if I get too far forward my elbow starts to torque out so I need to figure out where exactly my Goldilocks zone is in here by either rolling it back or rolling it forward to see where I can maintain contact along the side of the frame of the pistol maintaining contact on the lower portion of the frame of the pistol over here it gets overlooked a lot because where does all the violence happens when we're shooting the gun happens on the slide so intuitively we want to get as high as possible to control grip on the gun excuse me control of recoil on the gun which is true but it shouldn't be at the expense I've been able to have good contact with the rest of our hand onto the side of the frame of the pistol if I get too high if I get too far forward what happens is with this meaty portion of my hand down here it actually comes up and makes contact onto my firing side fingers right here on the left side of the pistol by making that contact I'm leaving this gap open back here on the back left of my pistol what do we hear a lot of novice Glock shooters say about their accuracy where does it miss low and to the left well if I'm doing everything that my youtube instructor told me to do I get high I get far forward you guys see how much real estate I'm missing path of least resistance when the explosion happens in my hand where am i creating it right now I have all this real estate back here that I'm not utilizing okay so shocker when I don't take up real estate back here with firm contact on my support hand the gun rocks low in to the left all right the way that I ensure that I'm maintaining this contact on the backside of the meaty portion of my hand the frame of my pistol I'll take my middle finger and my pinky wrap it around my firing side hand and I'll dig them in there with a complimentary grip on my firing side middle finger and pinky when I go to grip this gun I am damn near white-knuckle in it to the points where my sights are shaking and I scale backwards from there some of the old schools thought that we had about you know you need to relax your firing hand you can cycle this gun at about 0.15 0.16 seconds pretty damn quickly and you can have your hand clenching on it really tight you're not going to fatigue yourself you can be able to squeeze this trigger pretty rapidly okay so contact and pressure accountability with my middle finger and my pinky right here with my firing side hand I'm looking at contact and pressure as well so obviously the webbing of my hand right here coming up onto the back strap of the pistol making sure that my middle finger is making contact onto the trigger guard right here so those are the two primary points of contact that I feel now with regards to pressure when I apply pressure to this gun I'm taking these three fingers on my firing side hand and pushing this way into the pistol the reason for that is because it creates complementary pressure going that way into the gun and then also back this way with the palm of my firing side hand if I squeeze this gun like I squeeze a pull-up bar I'm now sending pressure back towards the six o'clock towards myself and towards the 12 o'clock and I have a lot less control of the gun the reason for that is because I have less surface area on the front here of the frame and on the back side here versus on the sides of the frame of the pistol so if I take up more surface area to apply that pressure I'll be able to apply good grip onto the gun but not start losing control because I'm gripping it too hard okay by applying that complementary pressure back into the side of the frame of the pistol will see a lot that the gap back here on my support hand closes up significantly now if you're shooting one round typically you don't notice if you're shooting two rounds simply don't notice it when we get really aggressive out here with running into and out of position your mind is focusing on okay I got to get to my next shooting position I have to shoot this many rounds at the target that's when we'll start to see you guys grip really open up and if this is a micro error down here that we can correct with accountability in our middle finger or pinky we'll be good to go when we start to really get into these high volumes of fire we have a high heart rate and you got a lot more running to do ahead of you after you shoot one target alright so there's a lot of different dot drills out there a lot of pretty cool ones this is something I found just works really well for me we've got different transitions between 1-inch dots and about a two and a half inch dots right here in the middle and we can see we've got a third row here where we go back between one inch to two and a half inch dots the design behind this setup so as shooters were typically pretty focused in for the first four to five shots that we take when we're under strict margins of accuracy so we've got our fourth in our fifth shot in the middle and the actually little top rope sends out to about eight shots or send me exactly eight shots right here this should feel mentally exhausting to be able to place accurate fire and every single dot now you're going to be able to do it at about 0.72 one second poor dot we're also gonna be looking at here is what happens with your grip and your consistency with being able to have the media portion of your hand on the frame of the pistol member we talked about that middle finger in that pinky you know a lot of times we don't condition ourselves to actually shoot at high volumes of fire so our grip will open up because we have this strict margin of accuracy that we're trying to be proficient under once you get to that fourth of that fifth round you start to notice your accuracy start to go to crap hold yourself accountable press down on that middle finger of that pinky if you feel your palms tighten up on the frame of the pistol it'll be that AHA that's the light bulb moment that's what we want you to be going for okay other reason you might miss is because at our fourth or a fifth round that's typically when we start to chase speed if you know you pulled the shot because you have a strict sight picture it was a trigger press go ahead and call it transitioning from the first row down to the second row we've got these two and a half inch dots this is intuitively what we think is going to be the easiest road to shoot this is the hardest row for guys to shoot so you come off of the top row of eight one-inch dots you dial it in and you're like finally I get to go for speed what happens here is guys will push the throttle down to the floor and it won't be maintaining a strict sight picture and the shot group will just open up and we'll see things really go to crap so this is intuitively what we think is going to be the easiest row to shoot it's actually the hardest bringing it back down to the third row down here we've got one inch dot in two and a half inch dots weaving in and out of them you'll shoot each one and start with a single round take the make up shot if you need to if you break the line we'll give it to you you paid money to be here so you'll be good to go with the middle targets these two in half-inch dots you'll shoot two rounds at each one take the make up shot if you need to same thing if you break the line you're good to go and then as you get down here transitions between one round and two rounds 24 rounds if you shoot a clean this should feel like a mental smoker a good time on this exercise is around 25 seconds for par time that's where we know that guys are really just dialed in with the marksmanship anything above that we're starting to see areas where we can look for improvement alright let's go and shoot this all right well we've got total time 18:11 down 1 so 18 plus 1 all right so since the exercise it is a look at your grip consistency on the gun and then just also your mental stamina we've been able to shoot a high volume arounds with very small margins of accuracy so if you guys want to test this out show us your scores go ahead and check out the download link that is in the bio right here

Channel: Guerrilla Approach

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Keywords: marksmanship, tactical shooting, carbine, pistol, SWAT, military, special forces, law enforcement, tactical training

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Length: 12min 45sec (765 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 22 2018