1: If you're like most people,
the bulk of your training time is probably spent shooting from a standing
position. And while that's a great way to master the fundamentals,
you're gonna want to go beyond that.
And you're gonna need to become proficient with various atypical shooting
positions.
One common shooting position that you should be familiar with and adept at is
shooting from kneeling. And there's different types of kneeling positions.
We'll go over many of those in a minute. Why might you take a kneeling position?
Well, it may not be up to you.
You may be knocked down and you have to fight your way back up to standing,
or it may be that you intentionally take a kneeling position to present less of
a target to your adversary or to make use of available cover.
Let's go over some of these kneeling positions using the Walther PDP. First,
we'll look at a high kneeling where I'm down, just like this.
Now this makes me a lower profile,
but the upper body is working just the same as if I'm standing.
In other words, I am not braced at all.
I could take a low kneeling position by sitting down here on my heel.
Notice the ball of my foot is on the ground.
That's gonna enable me to raise up if I need to.
So it really gives me more mobility. And from here I can get my good hits.
If I want to, from this position,
I can also brace my arm against my knee.
Now I wanna be careful not to brace the tip of my elbow to the tip of my knee.
Cuz I'll tend to roll around here, but just something like this,
where I'm just inside here and that
is gonna give me a brace position from which to shoot another consideration.
Maybe if I'm using cover and I need to shoot around it,
I wouldn't necessarily wanna lean out like this because there's a tendency of me
to go and fall beyond my cover. In that case,
I may want my other knee up here so I can lean out behind the cover and get
my effective shots. Just like this. The situation may land you on both knees,
just like this.
Now you need to consider getting up. You don't just wanna pop up.
You wanna make sure that your world is safe.
Then you can take a high kneeling position and eventually come all the way up to
standing. Make sure you practice shooting from these various kneeling positions.
You can find information like this in my on guard column,
in each issue of handguns magazine.