If I understand you right, I think it's pretty important in the AIWB draw. That's because the AIWB position forces the wrist into a different (much more bent - medially, I guess?) position than it will have when firing. That change has to happen sometime after the gun is lifted. For me, 'setting my wrist angle' involves a significant feeling of back-pressure on the wrist (so laterally, I guess?) and it occurs after the gun is lifted and as the hands are joining. I want the wrist angle set as the number three position is established. More back pressure on the strong hand wrist like that also is a pretty frequent antidote to the issue of first shots going to the support side with an AIWB draw. I've seen that a lot - I think it's a pitfall due to the wrist angle issue. And I've seen more conscious back pressure on the wrist often help.
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I just shot some high speed video. My strong side wrist reaches its final angle after the support hand begins to form its grip, but before the grip is fully made. I feel like my support hand is as or more important in setting the index. If I draw SHO, my wrist angle is still changing up until almost full extension.
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Last edited by Clusterfrack; 02-14-2020 at 07:28 PM.
“There is no growth in the comfort zone.”--Jocko Willink
"You can never have too many knives." --Joe Ambercrombie
Here’s what I mean:
This is my strong hand wrist during count 1 (establish master grip) of the draw.
[img]20200214_161359 by OrigamiAK, on Flickr[/img]
This is my strong hand wrist during counts 3 and 4 (hands join and gun goes to full extension, respectively) of the draw.
[img]20200214_161417 by OrigamiAK, on Flickr[/img]
The second picture is what I mean by ‘back pressure on the strong hand wrist’. I make that change after the gun is lifted out of the holster, and as the hands are joining. I believe it to be important to get that done as early as possible in the draw, because the wrist angle is key to index, which supports highly efficient sighted fire. Not sufficiently setting the wrist (insufficient back pressure), particularly when drawing from AIWB, often leads to index and shots drifting toward the shooter’s support side.
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When you were here last year I think I pushed the first shot to my support side in both Bill drills and one split Bill, and not setting the wrist early enough was a big part of that. Getting the grip set early enough in the draw was probably the hardest thing for me when I switched to AIWB.