Hey guys I'm Chris Sajnog founder of the new rules of marksmanship in this
video I'm gonna teach you how to build a proper shooting stance let's go ahead
and get started
proper shooting stance is really important when it comes to shooting
because it's literally the base it's the foundation of your shooting platform
everything you do builds on the way up so I'm gonna teach you a few steps that
are important for you to take every time you shoot a firearm from the standing
position and this is gonna apply whether you're shooting a pistol or a carbine so
the first thing I want you to learn how to do is find your natural point of aim
your natural point of aim is where your body is naturally pointing when you're
pointing your guns so if I have my pistol out and I were to just close my
eyes and relax my hips I open my eyes and my natural point of aim is just off
of the camera here a little bit the way you adjust this is going to be with your
base with your lower body get into your shooting stance the way you normally
shoot close your eyes you're going to breathe and relax it's important that
you relax your hips that's normally where the problem is a lot of times when
people shoot they will shoot in say a position like this right here at first
it looks good it looks like you know I'm pointing naturally right at the camera
at my target but in fact if I just relax my hips I am pointing way over here to
this side so that means that every time I shoot the gun it recoils and I'm going
to exaggerate this but it recoils up I'm gonna have to fight back from where I'm
naturally going to move towards which is my natural point of aim and then bring
the gun back so if I want to shoot faster or more accurately I need to
perfect my natural point of aim I need to bring that in in this case it's
really easy to do all I need to do is turn my toe in from my back leg here so
now just by turning that toe in I am pointing at the camera and let's say I
close my breathe relax I relax my hips and I open
my eyes and I'm still just a little bit off right there but you can see my hips
are pointed so now I'm a little bit off to the other side all I would need to do
is take my right foot there and just turn my toes out slightly and now I've
got my natural point of aim so now everything is naturally pointing at my
target that I want to shoot and that's really going to be beneficial to help
you shoot faster and more accurately so every time you shoot I want you to try
to get to your natural point of aim now a lot of times in a shooting situation
you may not be in that perfect stance with your natural point of aim but just
keep in mind that you can move your feet at any point let's say for instance I
was in this other stance over here where somebody came up and I need to shoot
this person with my blue gun so I draw my pistol and I point at them well my
natural point of aim is still over here but what I want to do while I'm shooting
is start to move my body in my hips so I'm lined up with my target and hey
guess what if I have a target that opens up over here I'm just going to open up
my natural point of aim to point where I can address both of those threats okay
so that's the first thing natural point of aim it's super
important the next thing that I want to talk about are some critical things when
you build any shooting platform and the first one of those is bone support your
bones are naturally supporting your weapon meaning you're not using your
muscles to hold your weapon in place when I build with my lower body I want
to build my legs so there's supporting structure all the way from my feet all
the way through my hips into my shoulders into my arms a lot of times
people when they shoot they will extend their arms out and push the gun out like
that now if I do that if I go from where I shoot like this to extending out Here
I am now using muscle small muscles in my shoulder to support the weapon system
and I don't want to do that because one of the other critical components to
building any platform is that you have muscular
relaxation what that means essentially is if you can think about gripping the
gun you want to grip the gun hard but you don't want to be shaking okay you
don't want anything to be tense when you shoot you should be relaxed and in the
flow of shooting and you want to do that through muscular relaxation so those are
the three components that I want you to remember each time you build any
shooting platform again I'm gonna be going over the standing but again any
shooting position be it kneeling prone make sure you have a good natural point
of aim you have good bone support and then you
have muscular relaxation okay those are all critical now let's talk about the
shooting platform with the pistol and what I teach is with a modified
isosceles shooting position and what that means is I'm gonna use the
geometric power of the triangle to build my base of support and also then build
my upper body position through using the power of the triangle what I want you to
do is start off with your feet about shoulder width apart maybe a little bit
more and then drop your strong side leg backwards so when I say strong side leg
this is your strong hand if you're right-handed it's gonna be your right
leg okay so I'm gonna drop that back till it's just about in line with the
heel of my left foot okay and you put a slight bend in your knees because you
don't want to be locked out in rigid you always want your shooting platform to be
as mobile as possible now from here what I do is I just feel back and forth and
kind of sense how my body feels in this position like could I stand here all day
in this position and shoot if I needed to well I really can't it just doesn't
feel comfortable in my hips so what I need to do is I rotate my left heel out
a little bit and rotate my right toes out a little bit as well that basically
equalizes my natural point of aim so I'm still shooting directly at my target
that I'm shooting out so I've got that slight bend in mine
now the next thing I want to do is just put my nose over my toes which means I'm
just leaning forward now if you look at this this is basically a fighting stance
so if I was gonna fight and punch somebody I have power coming all the way
from my back leg all the way through my core through my upper body and I'm ready
to punch right here okay so if somebody was gonna come tackle you straight on
from in front how would you be standing it should look something like this now
keep in mind everybody's gonna be a little different
everyone watching this video your body is different than mine the way your
joints move and the way they articulate with each other it's all different again
this is just a starting position so I come here and I've got that slight bend
in my my knees my nose over my toes and then I want to keep my head up erect and
I want to bring my sights up to my eyes so this I'm totally erect
now I'm nose over my toes so I'm able to look down across the top of my sights
but what I'm not doing is I'm not straight up and then bringing my head
down to my sights like that okay so don't do that bring the gun up to your
eyes and lean forward and this is my shooting position right here with the
pistol couple things to keep in mind the barrel of the gun should basically be in
line with your spine because the middle of my body is where the support is when
I talk about the two different triangles and that geometric support is my lower
body has a triangle which is slightly offset to the right and then my upper
body because I'm right-handed offsets a triangle slightly to the left
in those you want to interlock and then right down the middle of that is your
line of strength that you want to use to be able to shoot your gun effectively so
the last thing I want you to keep in mind and I talked about this earlier
very briefly is your shoulders I want you to pack your shoulders in so here's
what I mean by that I mentioned when some people shoot they
extend their gun out like this they push their shoulders out thinking if I can
get my muzzle one more inch closer to my target I'm gonna be that much more
accurate well it's not going to be that much more accurate what you want to do
is you want to use your chest and your back muscles those large muscles rather
than your deltoid muscles to support the gun so if I'm pushed out like this I'm
using my deltoid muscles but if I take my shoulders and pack them in now I can
really feel you can feel my back muscles engage and that's what I want you to do
engage those back muscles do it by simply going from an extended position
pull it back to there and there again I can feel my back muscles are engaged and
that's what you want to do it's going to be a much more stable position this way
when you shoot the pistol what's going to happen is the line of that energy
that comes back is going to come straight back straight through your arms
which are going to be straight okay so don't have a bend in your arms if you do
it properly all the energy will come back into your shoulders and that will
translate all the way down through your body so that is an effective shooting
position with the pistol now one last thing I just want to share with you very
quickly is what that looks like with a carbine and the importance of keeping
your shooting positions the same no matter what weapon system you're using
sometimes you need to transition from one weapon system to the other the
importance here is keeping those the same so I want you to look at this and
see what happens when I transition from my pistol which I just showed you to my
rifle and look at how similar the positions are so I'm going to get into
my shooting position with the pistol okay so here's how I'm going to shoot
with the pistol now I'm gonna put this away with trying to move as little as
possible but here's my shooting position with the carbine okay here's my shooting
position with a pistol and here's my position
with the carbine nothing moves and that's really important if you want
speed between your transitions so if I'm training with my pistol in a different
position I'm also training with my carbine keep those things in mind I hope
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