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Holy shit they had atrocious form in 1948
That's an entire classic method, popular with British police, sometimes called blade method, where you're standing with one arm out fully extended sideways.
https://outdoorempire.com/pistol-shooting-stances/
Yeah I'm aware. No quality trainers teach that anymore though.
The us navy used it as well more recently
Ah high heels, the perfect footware for police work.
I have zero problem with that. Train for the gear you'll actually be using. If that's what they wore on the job then training in heels is the correct move. Whether or not they should be wearing something else is a different question but it was 1948 and standards for women's attire were different. Their form is just ass and that's got nothing to do with fashion.
In what way? The only one i'd be concerned about is #4 with her thumb beside the chamber. Cylinder gap injuries are no joke.
First I'd say that they're only using one hand but it's good to train with one hand occasionally in case one of your arms gets disabled in an altercation. The bigger issues are that they are shooting with their body parallel with their arm (should be perpendicular) and they are leaning back (should be leaning forward)
They aren’t leaning. That’s just the camera angle. As for the stance you’re wrong. That’s a normal shooter stance. Here are the 2023 european championship shooters as an example.
Why do people who don’t shoot act like they know what they’re talking about? My experience is military shooting with experience in wartime iraq. What’s yours?
The stance for competition shooting is entirely different than shooting for self defense. You practice shooting for self defense with your torso pointed at the enemy because that's what your body does instinctively when you're in danger. Turning your body 90 degrees when you recognize a threat is a waste of precious milliseconds needed to save your life. There's also the issue of body mechanics. Pointing at the enemy like I said allows you to engage your whole upper body to mitigate recoil in a way that blading your body simply does not. Whether or not they are leaning back may not be readily apparent in the image but you can say with certainty that they are not leaning forward, which again, is necessary to engage the core for recoil mitigation.
I'm not eager to explain my credentials because I find the appeal to authority thing really stupid. I will say though, the military is widely known to have subpar handgun training, evidenced by countless videos online and countless professional trainers complaining about the amount of unlearning necessary to teach modern handgun training to people with military experience.
The weapons don't really look like the high recoil type, though admittedly I'm no expert. I'm going to bet they were doing just fine.
Recoil mitigation is revelant with those revolvers. They appear to be .38 special which does have some kick. Regardless, even with 9mm it's important. These are pistols. You need to land multiple hits to stop a threat. Recoil mitigation determines how quickly you can fire accurately again, which determines how many shots you can land in the precious few seconds you have to defend yourself.