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Hello all,

I'm asking for suggestions and pointers to help me to better "lock" my wrist. Any physical, or mental focus tips or suggestions will be much appreciated.

Your wrist doesn't lock. Start from there.

Make a fist with your shooting hand and squeeze it tight, extending your arm like you here holding a pistol. Now try to move your hand up and down, left and right, pivoting on your wrist. Keep squeezing your fist hard while you do this like you here going to punch someone. You will find that as you grab something firm, your wrist will tend to be in a certain position and any movement from there is quite difficult. It will never "lock", but it does have a "natural position".

It's that position that you should have when holding the pistol in the aiming area. You achieve this by altering the angle of the grip or the grip itself.

You are probably having to move your wrist up/down, left/right or both, in order to get your sights aligned, and thus forcing the wrist out of it's natural position, putting some stress on your tendons, who fight back as you try to release the shot.

Hope this helps

I like this:

http://www.pilkguns.com/anatoli.shtml

rmca wrote:like you here going to punch someone

(sic)

"Like you are going to punch someone/something" is the best I've ever been able to describe it.

When I run clinics, I usually have shooters get their stance and grip without a gun, and then I smack them soundly on the front of the hand. That shows weak links in the stability of the platform pretty quickly.

Oh, and don't mind Rover - empirical evidence shows that he often has no idea what he's talking about.

Learn the muscles just in front of your elbow that seem to connect with the ring finger. Try to get them to flex independently.

There are a number of training exercises out there to strengthen the wrist. Suggest you take a look at those and practice them and see how you get on. Be careful not to overdo it though, the wrist can easily become stressed or inflammed.

Rob.

john bickar wrote: When I run clinics, I usually have shooters get their stance and grip without a gun, and then I smack them soundly...

It's prudent that you do this particular exercise without them having a gun.

Hey John,

Of course I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. That explains the difference in grip angles between AP, FP, and Standard Pistol.

Rather than trying to find ways to lock your wrist ,
start from the basics lifting your pistol with your shoulder locked to your elbow locked then the wrist, its pretty hard to have a weak wrist if you lift up your pistol to the aiming area if it is done correctly ,remember your pistol is just an extension of your arm.
you can also use a Giro ball much better muscle workout than weights for your purpose in training
cheers S