From the ground-fighting perspective, e.g.
Your grip on the weapon is especially important during andafterimpact with a target.
Keeping good contact especially in follow-up to a strike, is always to maintain positive control.
The same applies to your grip on a handgun.
In addition to presentations and holstering, grip is integral to recoil control.
In gripping, your objective is to stabilize the gun against any and all unnecessary movement.
Exactly how can a good grip be applied?
Start by applying pressure fore (front strap) and aft (rear strap) with your strong hand.
What this does is help prevent the muzzle from excessive up and down motion.
Next, back that up with applying inward pressure from the right and left sides.
What this does is minimize side-to-side muzzle twist.
Exactly how much pressure should you use?
As Master Rob often recommends, Choke the cr** out of it!
Thats the appropriate amount of pressure.
Back in my mountain climbing days, I learned that more contact equals more control.
How many points of contact do you need on a rock face?
The same applies to a positive handgun grip.
Any open surface area is considered space and in space there is escape.
For a handgun that means energy leaks.
The first and foremost position that your grip should be applied is in the holster.
You want to purchase a positive, well-placed and stable grip up high on the bore line.
Applying a proper grip in this position is critical.
The next important position is throughout transition from the holster to muzzle alignment with the target.
Here is your only opportunity toincreasegrip pressure.
The third and final position of the grip is when your muzzle is aligned with the target.
In this position your job is tomaintainthe stability that you have fought so hard to establish.
Control
The desired result of gaining stability and applying that stability throughout the above positions is control.
Compromise stability, or getting a less-than-optimal grip, in any position and you relinquish control of the gun.
Either you control the gun, or the gun will control you.
