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Old 04-29-2008, 07:56   #37
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Thanks for the education on “step off” TS. If I understand this correctly: Only lean forward so much that you can lift the weak-side leg without stumbling forward?

Since this topic is back running....


Gene Econ Sir, the advice you gave was on grip. Does grip exercise also cover wrist strengthening as to prevent "limp-wristing"?

My rumination:
The aggressive stance allows the force of the recoil not absorbed by only the wrist, but distributed to elbow, shoulder, hip, and ultimately the whole body weight. However, at the hand alone, the wrist(s) has to be able to handle the torque caused by the bullet exiting the barrel at a higher plane than the forearm. The muscle responsible for this should be the one extending along from the base of pinky towards the ulna. If this muscle is exercised aka. flexed regulary with a demanding resistance, it'd be less prone to get extended when the gun goes bang. So activities such as splitting woods, casting fishing-rod, badminton, kyudo etc. would help shooting?

Disclaimer: I'm just an ordinary Joe with extreme interest in deconstructing things, breaking it apart to elements to be worked on individually with any relevant boundary conditions, then putting them back together to see if it results in improvement. If not, back to the drawing board. Anyone, feel free to tear it apart, or as I always believe: My way, or the better way.
By "aggressive" stance I take you probably mean "fighting" stance. You see, unlike those thousands of civilian "defensive instructors" we have teaching in the United States we in the military know that in a two way fight you need to be able to "move" and not just stand in one place when engaged.
In the military we also benefit from taking the fight to the bad guy and not waiting for him to bring it to us.

Again, if the stance you use does not allow you to easily step off from it then you never learned a proper fighting stance. Learning to shoot and learning to fight with a weapon are apples and oranges.

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