Avoid These Top Grip Mistakes!
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2024
- Whether you're a beginner or an experienced marksman, mastering your pistol grip is crucial for accuracy and safety. In this detailed guide, Matt Smith breaks down common errors and shows you how to correct your grip like a pro. Don't let poor technique hold you back-watch now to learn essential tips and transform your shooting skills. Perfect for anyone passionate about improving their handgun handling.
0:00 Intro
1:25 Mistake #1
2:42 Mistake #2
4:53 Mistake #3
6:41 Mistake #4
7:45 Outro
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Super informative video. Saved and shared with many
Thank you for sharing this great grip advice. You broke it down, so it was easy to follow and understand. Appreciate it!
Glad it was helpful!
Great job Sir! Very clear, concise, and practical. Too often too much information and non-essential information is giving in videos from other folks. Not yours, you nailed it! Thank you and keep up the great work!
Outstanding delivery, and the summation nails it.
Well Done ... it made sense as you walked us thru the process.. it was new to me to hear about putting pressure on the Slide release ... and as you mentioned can cause problems and waste time and money going to repair .. Thank You ..
Great advise
One of the best videos on pistol grip I have ever seen.
Great details.
Shared with many beginners. Good stuff 🧠🇺🇸🤘🏻
Very helpful. For the longest my slide has not been locking back. I suspect it is my strong hand thumb. Thanks
Thank you very much for the clip
Explains clearly and simply how to hold a gun
I will take care of the correct grip in the NEXT range
Great information! Yep, I do all the wrong things, I need training!
Thank you for video. As a glock 45 owner i spent some time practising grip with empy chamber. I'm using it with Blackhawk T-series L2C overt holster. It is great holster with release button just under thumb, but I do find it a bit difficult to draw it fast without need to improve my grip afterwards. Could it be my small hands fault or just lack of practise? Greetings from Poland.
Keeping the thumb off the slide release was something I had to train myself to get used to, especially because I use Glock’s factory extended slide release (found on their competition pistols) on all of my Glocks. I thought I had issues as a result of using a different slide release despite it being a Glock factory part, but getting my thumb away from the slide lock fixed everything!
I feel like you over emphasized the thumb on the slide and malfunctions. I can put my thumb on the slide hard and no malfunctions. I think that was an old folk tale.
He did. No slide is gonna be stopped by a support thumb, actually you don't even feel it during the course of firing.
I was taught to ride high and it’s not an issue for me either. I do occasionally hit the release so it won’t lock back, but I train around that.
The thumb over thumb I call the military grip as a lot of military I have trained used that grip. Before all the comments start, not all the military are taught that way. Now suggestion would be rather then placing support palm onto grip then wrapping the fingers try wrapping the support fingers making a nut cracker type effect as you close your hand onto the grip like crushing a walnut. This give a very solid all the way around grip. The pressure on the slide release not locking back I found more common with the Sig P 320 not the Glock. Just my 2 cents for what it's worth.
Thank you
I’m researching OWB holster setup. What holster are you using in this video?
Yep yep good advice!
I shoot with a support hand, and often regress to asking “what is the technical reason for using a support hand?” My answer (right or wrong) is to keep the sights steady on my target. If I achieve this without introducing additional consequences, do I have a good support hand grip? Identifying additional consequences might be more difficult than said. I might be pushing the gun off target when I pull the trigger, along with problems mentioned in this video. But, after all is said and done, I tend to focus on my trigger hand and try to achieve maximum stability (support) with my support hand. Does that make sense?
Best Grip Video I’ve ever seen on you tube… short, informative and the most important details with a good explanation
Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪
Thank you!
What holster is that?
The #1 thing that helped my grip is. Prohand grip master. it's device that I squeezed in my hand. After using & continuing to use this device, I got a firmer grip on my pistol. It don't have to be this brand. Its a grip strengething devide. They sell them at any sporting goods store. The sold them at my range. Afirmer grip on my pistol improved my accuracy!
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What kind of front sight is that?
I saw that Tim Kennedy grips his pistol differently than how you described
Hey Matt!
I have gorilla hands and can only hold pistols in few configurations. The two I don't have issues with is my Desert Eagle (.44) and a Rock Island FSHC in 10mm which is 16+1 so it's a not-really-but-kind-of 2011 with girth. Both are like holding a good sized burrito. When I used to take women (mostly family) to the local range they always defaulted to crisscrossing their thumbs behind the slides. It irks me to think about what the aftermath would be like if I hadn't intervened. >_<
Dominant hand around the grip, non-dom to support (preferably), Weaver stance, aim and shoot. Best way for me. They did the awkward leaning back thing with fully extended arms.
Sad but true, most folks have awful grips on their handgun which is the foundation to shooting consistently well.
I still use the thumb curled grip. I've been using that since the 80s. It works whether I'm carrying my edc 9mm or my magnum while hunting. One grip practiced all the time. Thumbs forward on a 41 magnum is painful. It's all KISS principle.
I don’t put my thumb forward when I hold a knife, hammer, baseball bat, or throwing a punch. Plus, I don’t feel like I can hold onto the gun as well should someone try to take it from me. It may work great for those who use it, but it is unnatural for me.
@halweiss8671 Agreed. It's the so-called "experts". I've been teaching since the 80s. I've always said whatever worked for the individual. It was younger geniuses that started on me about the thumbs. I just told them to go for it on a magnum. And make sure to video that crap.
@@markcain2418 I, too, started shooting on a revolver in the late 70s. I also think that if a revolver is the only gun available to me in an emergency situation, I don’t want to have to think about making adjustments to my grip, especially under stress.
@@halweiss8671 Amen
I've been trying the thumb curled grip (aka combat grip) and like it. Clamping down on that thumb with the support thumb gives a solid grip. The combat grip allows for a solid one-handed grip - with no adjustment needed - in the event that you need your support hand to hold a light, open a door, protect an innocent bystander, grapple, etc.
Awesome video! Most people rely on one of these but they all go hand in hand (pun intended).
Good tips. Thank you
Anybody know what red dot he has on that Glock?
Leupold DELTAPOINT PRO
With the M&P 2.0, you have to be aware slide lock.
The Lower receiver of the pistol 😂
+3 situational awareness with that eye pro
What about a left hand person to improve your grip
As you know a lot about guns and grips etc. would you be kind enough to get in touch with that female Secret Service girl and teach her how to get a gun in and out of her holster. Thanks in advance.
You could park a car on that front sight
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Start at 1:26
“Get a grip, get a grip, get a grip right now! Get a grip, get a grip, get a grip and keep it!” - Henry Rollins
Just a recommendation: You might consider addressing that Michelin muscle and Dunlap's Disease wherein your Michelin muscle dun laps over the front and sides of your gun/utility belt.
LMAO
Too high on back strap causing slide bite
That suppresor height front sight is poking me in the eye 😅
Gripping thumbs forward under stress only puts pressure on the slide, causing it to shortstroke.
Why? Because under stress you are gripping for your life, those thumbs are going to tuck into something
I teach thumbs up. Stronger grip… doesn’t cause malfunction.
Ok
Excellent video! You describe the proper grip simply and effectively. The only problem I had, is you called the Slide Stop a slide release; it's NOT intended to be used for that function. Lock the slide back on your Glock, THEN see how much FURTHER back the slide is capable of moving. If you use the slide stop to RELEASE the slide, you give up the vital last 3/8 inch of compression of the recoil spring. It may just NEED ALL of that springs strength to successfully chamber that round fully. I've been a Glock Instructor since 1996, and that's something I see all the time. Hammer. 42+ year Firearms Instructor USAF SSgt; US Army CW4/SrAviator; INS/ICE/CBP, ret
Dude says get deep in the grip tang. Then he shows himself NOT in the grip tang.
I'm guilty of the very lady one. I don't lock back 80% of the time.
As soon as you went “thumbs forward” with the grip, you lost me. I can’t hit the broad side of a barn from inside using that grip, and I do not feel like I have a solid grip on the gun that way. I use the “thumbs down” grip, what Ayoob calls the “crush grip.” I shoot much better with my thumbs locked down, have never hit the mag or slide release, and have occasionally outshot my instructors in training classes. So “thumbs forward” is not necessarily correct for everyone.
Wth is thumbs down?
Amen. Glad you said it. Thumbs forward wastes half the grip strength.
Great vid. The positions of your digits is critical, and once you’ve found your sweet spot, repetition is easy as long as your grip stays consistent.
Great video!
@@warrenrosen132if half of your grip strength comes from your thumbs, you are shooting wrong.
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Your Glock needs a bigger frontsight
I was wondering what you could have meant then he pulled it out and I saw his clown sights 😂
@@sunlight-sky151 I havent seen a bigger frontsight my whole live,it just looks so rude to me 😂
It’s impossible to get a good grip from a DUTY holster with different levels other than the SERPA holster level 2 . Yes you grip high from holster now try and draw without moving your grip unlocking the holster to get it out your grip is already is off. Make sure you talk about open top no level holsters like the one-you’re using for this demo.
Don't refer to your self-defense firearm as a weapon. Stay safe.
Completely outdated
O.K. to critique. But when you do, a more detailed explanation as to why it's outdated and what would a better solution be would go a long way.