I would agree with lots of folks here on stances. Learn them all.
When I teach, I have my students try out different stances, and then urge them to practice, practice, practice and use what works for them.
It's sort of like asking which batting stance to use in baseball.
Well, Ted Williams sure didn't have a stance like Pete Rose, but man, they both could hit.
Just some other terms and ideas to know about.
1) Weaver, with the gun arm straightened, is actually a modified Weaver, or sometimes even called the "Chapman" stance. In real, "pure" Weaver, both the off arm and the gun arm are bent slightly at the elbow, with the gun hand pushing forward slightly and the off hand pulling slightly back against the gun hand.
Yeah, same stance has many names, just to be even more confusing.
2) Cops are taught isoceles a lot because if you wear body armor or bullet resistant vests, you WANT your chest squared up to an armed attacker so the bullets hit the vest and don't go down the arm hole.
But practice practice practice and find what works for you. Shoot from behind barricades. Shoot from a sitting position, shoot on your knees, shoot with your weak hand and weak eye, shoot lying on your back.
You never know, in a real violent confrontation, where you will be or what you will be doing when the bad guys show up.
The key is to find what works for you, and the only way to know what works for you and what doesn't is to go shoot several thousand rounds.
hillbilly
When I teach, I have my students try out different stances, and then urge them to practice, practice, practice and use what works for them.
It's sort of like asking which batting stance to use in baseball.
Well, Ted Williams sure didn't have a stance like Pete Rose, but man, they both could hit.
Just some other terms and ideas to know about.
1) Weaver, with the gun arm straightened, is actually a modified Weaver, or sometimes even called the "Chapman" stance. In real, "pure" Weaver, both the off arm and the gun arm are bent slightly at the elbow, with the gun hand pushing forward slightly and the off hand pulling slightly back against the gun hand.
Yeah, same stance has many names, just to be even more confusing.
2) Cops are taught isoceles a lot because if you wear body armor or bullet resistant vests, you WANT your chest squared up to an armed attacker so the bullets hit the vest and don't go down the arm hole.
But practice practice practice and find what works for you. Shoot from behind barricades. Shoot from a sitting position, shoot on your knees, shoot with your weak hand and weak eye, shoot lying on your back.
You never know, in a real violent confrontation, where you will be or what you will be doing when the bad guys show up.
The key is to find what works for you, and the only way to know what works for you and what doesn't is to go shoot several thousand rounds.
hillbilly