By David Fessenden
In this excerpt from Defensive Handgun Skills, David Fessenden teaches the prepared place, thumb over thumb grip, the IPSC thumbs ahead grip, the AMW grip, and the competitive transformed weaver grip.
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You will achieve greater mastery of the vertical rotation by doing it in this manner. The firing-side arm can be locked out or slightly bent or flexed. It is a shooter’s choice. The support-side elbow is bent and pointing straight down at the deck. The attitude of the elbow will add a lot of rearward pressure on the grip and assist in controlling the vertical rotation of the muzzle. A Final Word Grips can be categorized into several different usage applications. Based on their type of intended usage, there is a grip system for each purpose.
The firing-side arm can be locked out or slightly bent or flexed. It is a shooter’s choice. The support-side elbow is bent and pointing straight down at the deck. The attitude of the elbow will add a lot of rearward pressure on the grip and assist in controlling the vertical rotation of the muzzle. A Final Word Grips can be categorized into several different usage applications. Based on their type of intended usage, there is a grip system for each purpose. For instance, general recreational range shooting or plinking in the desert or woods, the shooter will be served best by the Thumb Over Thumb Weaver style grip.
No pressure is exerted against the slide by the thumb. The support-side fingers are placed over the firing-side fingers, fingers on fingers, and wrapped around the grip frame. The support-side thumb is stacked next to the firing-side thumb high along side. No pressure is applied by the support-side thumb. Both thumbs are relaxed at this point. This grip setup is sometimes called Thumbs High, Thumb on Thumb or Thumbs Stacked. Performing the Aggressive Modified Weaver (AMW) Grip For the purposes of this discussion, the explanation will be oriented to the right-handed shooter.